Five Most Expensive Purses in the World

Purse or handbags are one of the accessories for carrying currency and other necessary items. Men generally carry these in their pockets and are also known as wallets, whereas women make purse or handbags a statement of their style and elegance. Purse can be made from leather and other materials and can be designed with gold or other precious stones. Most handbag or purse manufacturers offer signature items and designers around the world have taken the purse not only as a symbol of fashion and style, they have converted it as a work of art. Here are some of the most expensive purses that are beautiful and stylish besides being expensive.

5. The Cleopatra Bag by Lana Marks- $250,000

Lana Marks produces only one bag per year and numbers them after signing. Priced at $250,000 USD the bag is made from alligator skin, which is coloured in silver finish. The clasp is fashioned from 18 carat white gold, on which 1500 diamonds of black and white colours are embedded.

4. The Chanel “Diamond Forever” Classic Handbag- $261,000

This is a classic handbag from the house of fashion giants “Chanel”. The ‘Diamond Forever’ handbag is designed from pure and excellent quality alligator skins bags. The bag also boasts of clasps that are studded with 334 diamonds weighing 3.56 carats, in the trademark C-logo shape of Chanel. The clasp and the long shoulder straps are fashioned from 18 carat white gold. This expensive and limited edition bag is priced at $261,000 USD only.

3. Purse designed by Ginza Tanaka- $1.9 Million

The bag designed by Ginza Tanaka is also priced at $1.9 million USD, and could have been a perfect match as with Cinderella’s glass slippers. The bag is made from platinum and is decorated with 2000 diamonds that weigh about 208 carat.  The strap can be worn as a necklace, and the 8 carat pear diamond cluster can be worn as a brooch. Detaching them the purse can be carried as another stylish clutch.

2. Pierre Hardy’s Kelly Hermes Birkin- $1.9 Million

This extremely luxury bag is also one of the most expensive bags ever created. Priced at $1.9 million USD, the bag is from the French luxury brand Hermes. The creation is by Pierre hardy who took two meticulous years to design and develop the masterpiece. Crafted from original crocodile leather, the designer has impressively crafted each and individual diamonds embedded in finely crafted gold panels. The handles are designed like a bracelet and made form gold and encrusted with diamonds. Overall this bag from Hermes is a piece of art in gold, crocodile leather and diamonds.

1. 1001 Nights Diamond Purse – $3.58 Million

Officially the most expensive purse, the purse is known as Mouawad’s 1001 Night Diamond Purse. The Mouawad’s purse is hand-crafted with 18 carat gold. The purse is also studded with 4,517 diamonds, and priced at an eye-popping $3.58 million USD. The purse is heart shaped and out of the 4,571 diamonds there are 4,356 colourless, 105 yellow and 56 pink diamonds arranged in an extremely artistic pattern. The diamonds weigh 381.92 carats, and needs 8,800 man hours to create this expensive work of art.

Conclusion:

There are many more designer handbags or purses whose prices can be more than millions of dollars. These purses are not only statements of fashion, elegance and style, they are also statements of taste and elegance. These designer and expensive purses are also collectible items and a good investment option as well.

Via: Bornrich