Hello everyone,
I hope its okay that I share a somewhat personal but LV related story to my reveal. I have been literally raised with LV. My mother was a huge monogram collector and there are pictures of me wearing monogram items when I was a toddler (yeah I have no idea what my mom was thinking but she wanted me to love handbags I guess, it worked!). As I grew up, I started to actually resent LV because I saw it as too pretentious and my mother and I had a rough relationship throughout my teen years and so I attributed my frustration toward her to LV as well. She probably had over 50 LV pieces (this is a conservative number).
When I was 19, my mother was diagnosed with ALS (the disease that the ice bucket challenge revolved around). In short, it changed our lives and my mother lived with the disease for only a few months. Although I did not care at the time, she did leave all her LV items (along with her other possessions) to me since I was her only daughter. But unfortunately, her last husband was very money hungry and actually sold most of her collection behind our backs (before and after she died). At the time, I was more hurt that my mom was gone and not that her collection was gone and I just moved on.
I knew one day I could start my own LV collection that would be just my own and in memory of her. And I started with SLGs and I have to say I definitely have the LV gene that my mom had. Even though we couldnt share it together, I can now at least build my collection with memories of her. Plus I hope that her collection is still living on in other peoples lives (hey maybe one of you have her vintage items).
So alas, here I present to you my very first LV bag, which is really only just a clutch but hey its a start. I am in the US and was very excited to find a made in France item as well.
To top it off, I bought this item for myself in completion of my PhD comprehensive exams. So its been a journey.
Now I really want to get a smaller SLG to use in my Eva. Yes, I am taking suggestions =)
Thanks for letting me share.
(PS If any of you are Eva owners, is it normal for the zipper to be a bit wavy, see pics for reference, Im not too concerned but it looks kind of weird). Thanks!!
I hope its okay that I share a somewhat personal but LV related story to my reveal. I have been literally raised with LV. My mother was a huge monogram collector and there are pictures of me wearing monogram items when I was a toddler (yeah I have no idea what my mom was thinking but she wanted me to love handbags I guess, it worked!). As I grew up, I started to actually resent LV because I saw it as too pretentious and my mother and I had a rough relationship throughout my teen years and so I attributed my frustration toward her to LV as well. She probably had over 50 LV pieces (this is a conservative number).
When I was 19, my mother was diagnosed with ALS (the disease that the ice bucket challenge revolved around). In short, it changed our lives and my mother lived with the disease for only a few months. Although I did not care at the time, she did leave all her LV items (along with her other possessions) to me since I was her only daughter. But unfortunately, her last husband was very money hungry and actually sold most of her collection behind our backs (before and after she died). At the time, I was more hurt that my mom was gone and not that her collection was gone and I just moved on.
I knew one day I could start my own LV collection that would be just my own and in memory of her. And I started with SLGs and I have to say I definitely have the LV gene that my mom had. Even though we couldnt share it together, I can now at least build my collection with memories of her. Plus I hope that her collection is still living on in other peoples lives (hey maybe one of you have her vintage items).
So alas, here I present to you my very first LV bag, which is really only just a clutch but hey its a start. I am in the US and was very excited to find a made in France item as well.
To top it off, I bought this item for myself in completion of my PhD comprehensive exams. So its been a journey.
Now I really want to get a smaller SLG to use in my Eva. Yes, I am taking suggestions =)
Thanks for letting me share.
(PS If any of you are Eva owners, is it normal for the zipper to be a bit wavy, see pics for reference, Im not too concerned but it looks kind of weird). Thanks!!
