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This Microscopic Louis Vuitton Knockoff Bag Sold At An Auction For $63,750 And Rich People Must Be Stopped

Source: A handbag bearing Louis Vuitton's signature monogram has sold for thousands of dollars – and you can barely even see it with the naked eye. 

The bag, dubbed the "microscopic handbag" by its maker, the Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF, measures at just micrometers. It was sold in a Joopiter auction this week for $63,750 – a high escalation after the initial bid of $15,000 – and comes with a microscope that has a digital display so that its buyer can enjoy the bag's design.

"Smaller than a grain of sea salt and narrow enough to pass through the eye of a needle, this is a purse so small you'll need a microscope to see it," MSCHF said in a post about the bag. "There are big handbags, normal handbags, and small handbags, but this is the final word in bag miniaturization."

The bag is made of photopolymer resin and was created with a 2-photon polymerization, a form of 3D printing, and appears to be a knockoff of luxury designer Louis Vuitton. The microscopic bag is a fluorescent green tote and features the iconic LV in its center and a design similar to that of the luxury label's OnTheGo bags, which retail for between $3,100 and $4,300.

Joel Embiid's offensive bag if he didn't have flopping. Just kidding but what the fuck man? I stayed relatively silent when they bought million dollar watches that looked like ocean plastic. But this is too much. What is this, a handbag for ants? Shoutout to the fellas who have been waiting for microscopic things to finally get their shine. I want to talk to whoever bought this though. As a wise man Dave Portnoy once said: I got some ice to sell them. 

Imagine one accidental sneeze while holding this precious cargo and your $63,000 investment is gone? It's no surprise that this came from MSCHF, which, if you've seen these dumb big red boots making the rounds, they're behind them:

Michael Simon. Shutterstock Images.

We're at the point where rich people are just buying absurdly large or absurdly small shit just to buy it. The funniest part about this whole thing is apparently the creative director of MSCHF says they didn't even ask Louis Vuitton, because they're in "the school of forgiveness, not permission". All-time move to just fleece some rich person who doesn't care about money and then hope that $486 BILLION dollar company doesn't sue you. Then again, this went viral today, those red boots went viral, and next week they'll probably do something else and we're just all the suckers here.