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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents World’s most expensive purse worth $3.8 million.

The House of Mouawad has just unveiled the Mouawad 1001 Nights Diamond Purse, the world’s most expensive handbag, valued at a staggering $3.8 million.

The most expensive purse in the world was designed by Robert Mouawad and handcrafted by 10 artisans in over 8,800 hours.

The heart-shaped purse incorporates 18kt gold and 4,517 diamonds (105 yellow, 56 pink and 4,356 colorless) with a total weight of 381.92 carats.

The purse was on display at the Doha Jewellery and Watches Exhibition over the weekend of Feb. 20. There has been no word yet if anyone has bought the purse.

The handbag is the second record-breaking attempt from the House of Mouawad, which was founded in 1890.

In 2003, Guinness World Records certified, ‘The Very Sexy Fantasy Bra,’ which was produced in collaboration with Victoria’s Secret, as the most expensive bra ever made with a value of $11mn.

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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents YSL’s Manifesto Spring/Summer 2011.

Yves Saint Laurent will be launching its much-awaited Spring/Summer 2011 Manifesto on 5 March.

The publication will be released in major cities including London, Paris, New York, Milan, Tokyo, Hong Kong and, for the first time, Los Angeles.

‘La Manifesto’ features images starring face of YSL‘s S/S ’11 campaign, Arizona Muse, which has been photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

It will be distributed to the first 2,000 passers by in each city and will include a special tote bag.

The S/S 2011 Manifesto will mark the eighth edition of this publication. Each Manifesto is a celebration of the latest collections from the Yves Saint Laurent brand.

The Yves Saint Laurent Manifesto was the brainchild of the luxury brand’s creative director, Stefano Pilati.

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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Louis Vuitton Men’s S/S 2011 Ad Campaign.

 
Louis Vuitton’s ad campaign for their Spring/Summer 2011 collection is out. It stars Taiwanese actor Godfrey Gao and Doug Pickett, photographed by Cédric Buchet.

The campaign also features bags from the S/S 2011 Menswear Collection: Monogram Impression Sac Weekend, Utah Cabas Zippe, and Damier Graphite Elvis.


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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents China’s middle class stampede for luxury handbags.

 
It could be a queue for a pop concert, a top nightclub or even the opening night at the theatre. But the hundreds of people lined up in a Hong Kong street are actually waiting to bag a bit of luxury.

“We’re looking for new handbags,” says student Celeste Law as she queues patiently alongside her friend Karina Luh outside the supermarket-sized branch of Chanel on Hong Kong’s Canton Road.

The students, both 20, already sport impressive accessories — Celeste carries a Louis Vuitton monogrammed bag, while her friend’s is from Chanel.

Both work part-time and saved for over a year to buy their trophies.

“We want them because of the famous brand,” said Celeste. “What can I say? People will focus on your bag. It’s about feeling confident.”

Even on a weekday morning, Canton Road is flooded with shoppers happy to pay a small fortune for a luxury tote, shoulder bag or evening clutch in its jumbo designer stores.

Many are from the Chinese mainland, and some even carry suitcases to get their purchases home. The market for such luxury has extended far beyond China’s roughly 900,000 US dollar millionaires.

The market is now being driven by China’s burgeoning middle class, with the truly rich going ever further upmarket — happily spending tens of thousands of dollars on the right bag.

Handbag sales for Prada alone grew by over 80 percent in China in 2010, Sebastian Suhl, chief operating officer at the Prada Group, told AFP, while those of the group’s Miu Miu brand rocketed by over 500 percent.

“We believe we have only begun to scratch the surface of China’s potential,” Suhl added.

The brokerage firm CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets predicts China will become the world’s largest luxury goods market by 2020, accounting for 44 percent of worldwide sales and bigger than the entire global market is now.

Christina Ko, who blogs at HK Fashion Geek, said the Asian love of the luxury bag has become “a cultural fact. In the same way that Asians prefer rice to potatoes, they also prefer luxury handbags to non-branded ones.”

But as customers become more sophisticated, the demand is changing — bringing those who would previously have bought fakes into the market for the real thing.

“Middle class people are getting the Louis Vuitton bags, and the people who used to get them are now looking for something else,” Amanda Lee, who writes the Hong Kong-based blog Fashionography, told AFP.

Zuki Ho, a sales associate and mother, is one of the middle-class buyers boosting the industry: she owns 15 luxury handbags, and once spent HK$40,000 (US $5,135) “double her monthly salary” on a handbag.

She says she loves handbags because “I enjoy being watched on the street when I’m carrying the bag.” But she would never buy a fake — “I’m afraid of being found out,” she added.

Fakes remain big business in China, but genuine luxury is bigger.

And while women are a growing force in the Chinese designer market, men are not immune, competing fiercely over the most stylish ‘man bag’.

At the second-hand luxury handbag store Milan Station in Hong Kong’s upmarket Central district, bags sometimes sell for more than their retail price.

“People always ask for some kind of limited edition, a more expensive bag,” supervisor Jackie Lau told AFP. “People don’t feel guilty about it (buying a designer bag) because it’s like an investment.”

Customers can trade in their bags and take to the streets with a new one as often as they like, while those lucky enough to make it onto waiting lists for limited-edition bags can sell them straight to a second-hand store for a profit.

A waiting list is common for a truly coveted bag, with a wait of several months currently the norm for Mulberry’s Alexa bag.

The ultimate bag of desire remains the Hermes Birkin, which famously takes 18 hours to make by hand. The crocodile skin version uses the finest sections of hide from four crocodiles.

It costs from $9,000 to an astounding $160,000 for one of the top diamond-studded models, a Hermes spokeswoman told AFP.

Chinese women appeared immune to the “luxury shame” that affected females in other parts of the world during the global economic downturn, the consultancy Bain & Company said last year.

But while handbags are traditionally used to broadcast one’s success and good fortune, this too may be changing as more and more women join the designer-toting club.

Lee herself has a denim Chanel bag, a gift from family — but carries it “so that no one sees the double C (logo)”, she said.

“People would know (who the designer was) already if they were really into Chanel, from the shape and so on, but I feel like there’s no need to let the entire world know.”

Source: AFPrelaxnews- Photo: Reuters


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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Blake Lively for Chanel Ad Campaign.

Blake Lively was hired to be the spokesmodel for Chanel Handbags print campaign and now the first image has appeared online.

The ad, shot by Karl Lagerfeld, has the Gossip Girl against a set of mirrors staring at the viewer from her reflection and carrying the new Mademoiselle bag.

In contrast to singer Lily Allen’s playful Breakfast at Tiffany’s–inspired ads, Lively’s campaign feels edgier and more sophisticated, with a moody, Hitchcockian tone.

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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Miu Miu Crystal Matelasse Bag.

 
A bag that looks like it was made for a princess, or for Cinderella, and this Miu Miu Crystal-Embellished Matelassé Leather Bag is one of them. The royalty effect happens as a result of a magical combination of powder blue matelassé leather, shiny silver hardware, and crystal embellishments on everything. It has a turn-lock closure on the front and although it’s shown here with the detachable crystal-chain shoulder strap it also comes with a braided leather one for daytime looks.

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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Camila Alves Talks Muxo Handbags.

Long before Camila Alves ever set foot on a red carpet, or had paparazzi on her heels, the former Shear Genius host was a model. It was only a matter of time before Alves followed in the footsteps of model greats Cindy Crawford and Heidi Klum, transforming into a fashion forward mother and designer. Muxo, Alves' handbag line, was created alongside her mother, and draws inspiration from her travels across the globe, pairing soft leathers in a subtle and striking color palette. 

theFashionSpot: The colors are just incredible. Soft blushes, muted purple...

Camila Alves: I was a little bit like "oh, purple." It's fun but it's not over the top.

tFS: These bags are great accents to complete an outfit! Just the right amount of flare.
CA: That's the whole point of the bag. You don't need to have a thousand accessories; if you have your outfit, it can be as simple as jeans and a t-shirt, or it can be very sophisticated. You put on the handbag and it will close the outfit.

tFS: Is it hard to design for such a large audience?

CA: One thing that I really wanted to keep, was that sometimes when you go to do things for the masses, the quality of the leather – of the product – doesn't stay the same, and we really worked hard to have the leather be as good, to have a great touch. The handbags are light, we use a linen lining, it's very sophisticated and clean. We have a great product.  I'm excited about it!

tFS: What's it like designing with your mom?

CA: We work together, we do everything together. My mom is the one who went to school for that so she has about three design degrees. She went to three different schools for it, she's like the expert, she can do everything from beginning to end. All the stages. I learn a lot with her. We do everything together, I'll do a trip and I'll tell her the colors that I saw or the things that I saw and then she'll come up with an idea. I'm really good with closing the product. We balance it off of each other, we do everything together, in terms of creating the handbag. It's fun and it's great, but it's also very tricky.

tFS: Do you ever butt heads when designing?

CA: Yeah, we work great together, but of course, we do butt heads. We're mother and daughter, that's gotta happen.


tFS: We love seeing your glamorous looks on the red carpet. Did any celebrities influence this line?

CA: No, because the line doesn't come from anybody. It doesn't come from me or from my mother or an actress or an actor. It doesn't come from that. The line comes from places that I've been, it's a lot of inspiration from nature. A lot of colors are earth tones, darts, and the stitching. A lot of the stuff is mostly inspired by trips. Brazil, New York, Grand Canyon. I don't really follow what trend is out there, what people are doing. We basically go on what we like and what we saw, and think we should share with people. We put it out there.

Muxo handbags are available at mymuxo.com.

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