Thanks you helpful wonderful person!! You are a wealth of knowledge, thank goodness we have you and you are so generous with your time. I hadn’t seen that piece before. It also looks like to me the vachetta is pretreated as it’s darker seemingly in most pieces? If that is true, I’m more interested. Happy Saturday!
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More bling and that blue crocodile varsity jacket nice.
I really like quite a few items from this collection, but the prices are (sadly) really crazy!
The boots I can see myself wearing but not for long. Looks like not much support. But those big hideous monster looking gloves is a definite no.
my guess is all these new lv bags are going to be about $4,500, trunks at least $12,000
super pretty, but reminds me of Gucci style, hahaMore bling and that blue crocodile varsity jacket nice.View attachment 5808907View attachment 5808908View attachment 5808909View attachment 5808910
my gosh, the cheapest speedy is already at $8200, that's way beyond my expectation
Pricing has already been posted on this thread. The smallest trunk, the wallet trunk, is $28,000 USD
People freaked out about the €1.000.000 Speedy and I couldn't stop thinking about it ever since.
Most compare it to the Himalayan Birkins. Those can go up to almost half a million, but I guess the retail price must be around half as that. But objectively speaking, those are simple crocodile bags, with a dash of white gold and diamonds. Not a lot, just a small dash.
The Speedy is also a crocodile bag, but it is much more fine jewellery than bag. The chain on it is literally 1 kg of solid gold (saw this on Insta today). I was browsing through their jewellery, and made some calculations based on their current offerings. Their fine jewellery prices are not public, but their "simple" gold bracelets are. The LV Volt Mesh Bracelet is € 43.000, and is made of approximately with only 0.1 kg of gold. This chain is 10x bigger, my guess is that this contributes to more than half of the price. I know that price is not only the material cost, but it might be a good starting point to calculate.
Also all the D-rings, keys, locks are gold, even the zipper, which must had been a challenge to manufacture. Then a similar white gold diamond lock is readily available, € 23.000. If we add up all of these, it is just a regular LV pricing at the end, nothing too crazy by their standards.
Also Hermès worked so hard to put some magical mystery around the Himalayan ombré, but it is just a very basic crocodile finish. If you Google a little, it is not at all more expensive than a red or blue crocodile hide. It was just marketing. And also not that expensive. So the hand painted Monogram pattern is just as OK.
The only thing I found weird at first, that they refuse to use saddle stitching (even though they use it for certain products), but the more I think about it, the more logical it is. A saddle stitched Speedy would look a little different. And it is still a Speedy. And their goal is that you should covet a Speedy, even a canvas one, not to think that those are inferior products.
What do you guys think about the pricing?
Most compare it to the Himalayan Birkins. Those can go up to almost half a million, but I guess the retail price must be around half as that. But objectively speaking, those are simple crocodile bags, with a dash of white gold and diamonds. Not a lot, just a small dash.
The Speedy is also a crocodile bag, but it is much more fine jewellery than bag. The chain on it is literally 1 kg of solid gold (saw this on Insta today). I was browsing through their jewellery, and made some calculations based on their current offerings. Their fine jewellery prices are not public, but their "simple" gold bracelets are. The LV Volt Mesh Bracelet is € 43.000, and is made of approximately with only 0.1 kg of gold. This chain is 10x bigger, my guess is that this contributes to more than half of the price. I know that price is not only the material cost, but it might be a good starting point to calculate.
Also all the D-rings, keys, locks are gold, even the zipper, which must had been a challenge to manufacture. Then a similar white gold diamond lock is readily available, € 23.000. If we add up all of these, it is just a regular LV pricing at the end, nothing too crazy by their standards.
Also Hermès worked so hard to put some magical mystery around the Himalayan ombré, but it is just a very basic crocodile finish. If you Google a little, it is not at all more expensive than a red or blue crocodile hide. It was just marketing. And also not that expensive. So the hand painted Monogram pattern is just as OK.
The only thing I found weird at first, that they refuse to use saddle stitching (even though they use it for certain products), but the more I think about it, the more logical it is. A saddle stitched Speedy would look a little different. And it is still a Speedy. And their goal is that you should covet a Speedy, even a canvas one, not to think that those are inferior products.
What do you guys think about the pricing?