Yeah that's for a special order. But I'm talking about designing a completely original piece...
i asked about this as i need a pen case... this is what i found out:
soft sided custom designed pieces are MORE expensive than hard sided ones, because there are so many patterns and box sizes around in exsistance. it is also harder to get approval from france for soft sided pieces, but what i call semi hard pieces like the vernis jewel box that are hard sided but not "trunk like" are easier to make, cheaper and likely to get approval for than truly soft sided pieces like a baby bottle bag...
if you have a price limit, you can invluded with your design request... but for a trunk style hard sided piece you starting price is $2,500 for very small peice and up, for a jewelry box style hard sided starting is going to be about the same and for a soft sided piece it is going to be $3,000-$4,000 but those are only starting prices for small simple item.
once you start to add compartments and Extras (which for me was crystal ink bottles) your price goes up very fast!
it will take a few weeks to hear back from france about your design, which you can customize to your liking of course, but you cant do things like damier with silver hardware or graphite with gold hardware, you get the idea...
you can bring in your own drawings and it helps for items like a pen case to send the pens to france so they can make slots that fit each particular pen, for cameras i think it might be the same... bring cameras with you to your appointment, which you can expect to last 30 or minutes...
once your design is approved it goes into production but expect to wait at least 6 months for a soft sided piece, less for hard sided...
you dont pay anything before your design is approved once it is approved i think it is 50% deposit...
you dont have to famous to get it done though, you just have to have the money to pay for it and of course a positive relationship with LV and your SA, and sa who does not know you might not even be willing to sit down with you....
i am not rich and my project would take me a year to save for but my nyc SA was more than willing to work with me and see that i got exactly what i wanted and that it was approved so a positive relation is good enough to make up for lack of a private plane...