MSCHF, the Brooklyn-based art collective, have created a teeny weeny Louis Vuitton handbag, smaller than a grain of salt, as a bold critique on luxury fashion. The bag, measuring just 657 micrometres in height and 700 micrometres in length, represents the pinnacle of miniaturization.
Crafted from neon-green photopolymer resin, this miniature handbag is a remarkable product of 3D printing technology commonly employed in biotech applications. While it remains discernible without aids, the intricacies of the bag can only be fully appreciated under a microscope. Complete with a handle, a prominent Louis Vuitton logo, and adorned with the brand’s iconic monogram pattern, it’s a truly unique accessory.
There are big handbags, normal handbags, and small handbags
said MSCHF.
Various brands at various times have dabbled in the extremes of each. Smaller than a grain of salt, MSCHF’s Microscopic Handbag is made via a stereolithographic process commonly used for making tiny mechanical biotech structures
MSCHF created the bag as a comment on the luxury fashion industry and the functionality of small bags.
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,” said the collective.
Previous small leather handbags have still required a hand to carry them – they become dysfunctional, inconveniences to their ‘wearer’
Microscopic Handbag takes this to its full logical conclusion. A practical object is boiled down into jewellery, all of its putative function evaporated; for luxury objects, useability is the angels’ share.
The bag is going to be displayed in Paris within a sealed gel case placed beneath a microscope along with an image of it on a screen ahead of it being sold online at Pharrell Wiliam’s Just Phriends auction at the end of this month.
Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF are known for their parody artworks. They were first featured in FAD magazine when they Cut up a Damien Hirst spot print into 88 dots then resold each dot. Recently they entered the art establishment by holding their first exhibition NO MORE TEARS, I’M LOVIN’ IT with Perrotin which displayed various old and new artworks/projects around the concept of a Mall.
