Hello everyone! I need some honest advice to help me choose my first Chanel. Here's a little back story: I bought a fuchsia lambskin maxi a few weeks ago and am completely smitten with it... BUT I'm having some quality/premature wear issues with it and Chanel has offered to let me exchange the bag. My options are either a replacement of the original bag or a black caviar maxi with silver hardware. My heart and head are telling me two different things, so I'm really hoping for some advice. This will be my "everyday" bag, although it isn't carried every day and I work from home. I am also extremely careful with my bags, so please don't let that sway your opinion.
The pink maxi is my literal dream bag, my holy grail, my unicorn, and every other term I can think to describe my perfect bag. But the quality and wear of the lambskin is concerning, and even though I don't mind doing so I am REALLY having to baby this thing. Pink is also my favorite color and this bag matches about 99% of my mostly Lilly Pulitzer wardrobe. I hope the issues with my current bag relate to some sort of defect, but I'm terrified it will happen again and the thought of a $6k bag not holding up makes me sick.
As for the black, the obvious pro is the caviar leather. I love the idea of not having to worry about it and being able to carry it in the rain, but I'm not even remotely as crazy about the black as I am pink. This probably won't seem like a big deal to most, but the fact that I would be losing my pink bag is pretty heartbreaking. My head tells me this is the smart choice, but I feel like the black is so common among Chanel bags and that's not usually what I go for.
So, what should I do? My heart says pink because I can always get the black one down the road, but my head says the logical choice is black. Help!!
The pink maxi is my literal dream bag, my holy grail, my unicorn, and every other term I can think to describe my perfect bag. But the quality and wear of the lambskin is concerning, and even though I don't mind doing so I am REALLY having to baby this thing. Pink is also my favorite color and this bag matches about 99% of my mostly Lilly Pulitzer wardrobe. I hope the issues with my current bag relate to some sort of defect, but I'm terrified it will happen again and the thought of a $6k bag not holding up makes me sick.
As for the black, the obvious pro is the caviar leather. I love the idea of not having to worry about it and being able to carry it in the rain, but I'm not even remotely as crazy about the black as I am pink. This probably won't seem like a big deal to most, but the fact that I would be losing my pink bag is pretty heartbreaking. My head tells me this is the smart choice, but I feel like the black is so common among Chanel bags and that's not usually what I go for.
So, what should I do? My heart says pink because I can always get the black one down the road, but my head says the logical choice is black. Help!!
