A microscopic faux fluorescent green Louis Vuitton bag has been sold at an online auction for the hefty price of $63,000 (about 58,000 euros), local media reported Thursday.
The tiny accessory, smaller than a grain of salt and accompanied by a microscope to see it, is the work of the MSCHF art collective, which is dedicated to creating fashion objects critical of capitalist consumerism.
The bag, auctioned on the Joopiter portal, received 36 bids that started from a minimum of $15,000 and finally yesterday Wednesday it was awarded to someone -unidentified- who offered $51,000, plus fees.
Created with a 3D printer, MSCHF sought to make one think about how objects lose their practicality when reduced to a piece of jewelry and their function is abstracted to be “purely the representation of a brand”, according to the description.
“I think the ‘bag’ is a fun object because it derives from something rigorously functional. But basically it has become jewelry,” the group’s creative Kevin Wiesner, who denied asking Louis Vuitton for permission to use their logo, told The New York Times.
The collective copied the famous “LV” monogram and based the design of the bag on a model that, in real size, it costs between 3,100 and 4,300 dollarsaccording to CNN.