If you’re someone who knows about fashion and follows brands like Hermes, Jacquemus and others, you probably know these companies sell tiny handbags for a mammoth amount of money. But ever heard of a bag so tiny that you can only see it under a microscope. Yes, you heard that right. The US artist collective MSCHF is auctioning off a bag that is smaller than a grain of sea salt. According to MSCHF, the bag will go on auction in Paris during the fashion week.
This neon green coloured handbag, which resembles Louis Vuitton's OnTheGo collection comes with a microscope. The bag has pockets that are no larger than a speck of dust. With the naked eye, you can hardly see the tiny product.
"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," read the caption of the image shared by on Instagram.
"There are big handbags, normal handbags, and small handbags, but this is the final word in bag miniaturisation. 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," the caption further read.
The tiny handbag has become very popular on social media platforms. Since being shared on Instagram, the post has amassed 78,313 likes and lots of comments.
"Actually incredible. I’d love to see how the absolute tiniest details were done," commented one user on the post.
"Honestly, if I were really rich, I'd buy this and put it under a magnifying glass cabinet, it'd be funny," wrote another user.
"imagine getting arrested for shoplifting a microscopic LV bag," commented a third on the post.