Just in time for holiday shopping - for an incredibly small selection of uber-wealthy customers - Louis Vuitton has unveiled its most expensive handbag of the moment: a $55,000 alligator1 skin purse.
正值假日购物旺季，为吸引少数的富有顾客，路易威登推出了该品牌迄今为止最贵的手提包：一款价值5.5万美元（约35万人民币）的鳄鱼皮手袋。
More expensive than a new Mercedes and
costlier2 than a cruise around the world, the City Steamer features genuine alligator skin, cowhide
lining3, an
engraved4 padlock, a nametag, and a hot-stamped LV Circle.
The nude-colored number can be carried in hand, over the shoulder, or cross-body, and has 'ample room for papers and files' - and stacks and stacks of money, naturally.
Of course, the French design house is hardly the only one to offer exclusive accessories
inaccessible5 to the masses - or even most of the upper class, for that matter.
Several other designers are also selling bags that cost five figures this season, though it's unknown how many of the swanky
satchels6 and totes they actually manage to sell.
Hermes's Birkin bags have always been pricey, but their alligator and crocodile skin versions can cost
upwards7 of $100,000.
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