A designer bag smaller than a grain of salt was sold for a whopping $63,750 at an auction.
Also known for its well-justified name Microscopic Bag, the designer item in question was inspired by Louis Vuitton and created by Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF.
According to the bag’s makers, their creation measures just 700 by 222 by 657 micrometers and is tiny enough to fit through the eye of the needle.
Furthermore, one has to use a microscope just to be able to truly enjoy the item’s intricate design.
While the Microscopic Bag quickly became the center of ridicule and backlash online, the designer item has now sold for $63,750 at the Joopiter auction house.
“There are big handbags, normal handbags, and small handbags, but this is the final word in bag miniaturization,” MSCHF proudly announced earlier in June when the new ‘bag’ was unveiled.
“As a once-functional object like a handbag becomes smaller and smaller, its object status becomes steadily more abstracted until it is purely a brand signifier.”
Defending the piece of art, which was inspired by Louis Vuitton’s $3,100 OnTheGo MM bags, was also MSCHF chief creative officer Kevin Wiesner who admitted the company didn’t ask Louis Vuitton for permission before using their logo on the bag.
“I think the ‘bag’ is a funny object because it derives from something rigorously functional. But it has basically become jewelry,” he said.
Wiesner also revealed that the bag was made of resin “through a process called two-photon polymerization, a kind of 3-D printing for microscopic objects.”
Needless to say, the design was not well-received by the majority of people who struggle to make ends meet.
“I barely have enough money to bring food to the table and there are people buying microscopic bags in this world,” one person said.
“Does it come with a microscope?” another joked.
A third critic wrote: “Can’t you make something expensive AND useful for a change?”
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