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Save money by bringing your lunch to work in Louis Vuitton’s $5000 sandwich bag

Louis Vuitton Sandwich Bag
Louis Vuitton Sandwich Bag
Credit: Louis Vuitton

We’re all feeling the pinch.

Trying to stretch your pennies by bringing your lunch to work? Great news! Thanks to Louis Vuitton and producer/designer Pharrell Williams, you can pack your snacks in a stunning new leather sandwich bag.

Retailing at *just* $5,200 you’ll be the envy of the office with your new lunchbox. The bag, which takes four to six weeks to ship, draws inspiration from the classic paper sandwich bag, complete with a strip of blue tape to keep your sando safe and sound. Just please, for the love of God, don’t spill your yoghurt in it.

Embossed on the supple cowhide leather is the fashion house’s name, as well as ‘Maison Fondée En 1854’ so everyone knows you’re taking your lunch seriously. Dress for the lunch you want.

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Louis Vuitton Sandwich Bag Front View

Inside there’s a zipped pocket and a double flat pocket to keep things organised but strangely missing is any form of insulation or protection from rogue salad dressings.

The bag, which is finished in the exact same yellow as the house’s famed paper shopping bags, went on sale on January 4 exclusively at the LV West Hollywood pop-up store. It is the latest Louis Vuitton homage to the humble necessities of The Poors – in 2007 the budget-friendly chequered plastic laundry bags we cart from rental to rental got a serious glow-up.

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And in 2022 the LV cross-body bag was released in a delightfully blue-collar paint can, complete with metal handle.

It’s not the first time a major fashion label has caused some raised eyebrows. In 2017, Balenciaga released a replica of the big blue Ikea bag for a cool $2,700 while Swiss luxury “design collective” Vetements attempted to sell a DHL courier’s t-shirt for a very reasonable $355 in 2016.

Cosplaying as a normie has never been more achievable.

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