Are you a handbag enthusiast? Well, don’t worry. You are not alone.
There used to be a time when handbags or purses were considered a necessity. Now, people hunt for a million-dollar bag just to draw attention to their wealth. It’s like the recent whiskey craze, but even more fevering.
A top level of luxurious purses are destined for millionaires and billionaires as these magnificent bags run in the seven figures.
Among the top bags:
1. Boarini Milanesi’s Parva Mea Purse – 7.18 Million USD
Boarini Milanesi, the Italian-based company excels in its handbags of various designs. Their Parva Mea collection is made up of crocodile skin and so is this $7 million purse.
The company’s objective while manufacturing this exotic Parva Mea purse was to raise awareness regarding being sustainable and avoid throwing plastic waste into oceans.
The pièces de résistance of this bag are the ten butterflies crafted with white gold, three of them embellished with diamonds, three with sapphires, and the rest Paraiba tourmalines. The bag also has a gold clasp and thus a total of 130 carats of jewels are placed on it.
The company unveiled the bag in November 2020, and till now three customized orders have been made.
2. 1001 Nights Diamond Purse – 3.8 Million USD
What makes this purse lavishing and exotic is quite evident by its name. This jeweled bag is a Guinness World Record holder as it got sold for a staggering $3.8 million.
Robert Mouawad is the man behind the luxurious bag who worked with the enthusiastic team of ten artisans, who worked for 8,800 hours to fully handcraft it. What makes this bag accentuated is the incorporation of 18-karat gold and 4517 diamonds among which 105 are yellow, 56 are pink diamonds and the rest of 4,517 are D-diamonds.
This heart-shaped bag is inspired by the Middle Eastern popular fairytale, One Thousand and One Nights. This delicately-loved bag is perfect for your loved one if your pocket allows you to get one without costing an arm or a leg.
3. Hermes Kelly Rose Gold – 2 Million USD
Adorned with the finest of rose gold, this bag is crafted in such a way to give it a resemblance to crocodile-skinned leather.
To make this bag one of its kind Hermes Kelly collaborated with Pierre Hardy, a French fine jewelry and shoe designer. The bag is embellished with 1,160 diamonds and is a limited-edition run as only 12 pieces of this majestic handbag were made. If you think you can put your essentials in this bag, well you’re wrong as the bag measures about 6 inches and I doubt that it can hold a pair of sunglasses even!
4. Hermes Birkin x Ginza Tanaka Bag – 1.4 Million USD
Ginza Tanaka is a Japanese company dealing with precious metals. Hermes, which excels in making fashion accessories teamed up with Ginza Tanaka to work on this fourth most expensive bag in the world.
This bag comes with a hefty price tag for a reason as it is embellished with around 2,000 diamonds and an 8-karat pear-shaped centerpiece attached to it. Also, even the clasp is encrusted with the finest diamond.
If that was it, then why did the bag become the talk-of-the-town, following its release? Well, that’s because the parts of this bag are detachable. If not in the mood to carry the bag, just take the centerpiece and wear it as a brooch or use the strap as a bracelet or neckpiece.
5. Cleopatra Clutch by Lana Marks- 400,000 USD
Lana Marks has been serving the fashion industry since 1986. Through its exotic fashion accessories, the company has become a trademark in creating the finest handcrafted collection.
By 2016, the company was commissioned by Li Bingbing, a Chinese actress to create an exotic 400,000 USD bag. Lana Marks named the product Cleopatra Clutch, as besides being made of tanned alligator skin it is adorned with precious stones like 40 karats of the finest black diamonds, 18 karats of gold, and pink diamonds use purposefully to write her name.
Notably, Lana Marks is phenomenal when it comes to animal-skinned products. To create accentuated and exotic leather pieces for its customers the company uses skins of South African ostrich, American alligator, Australian crocodile, and South American lizard.
