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“Smaller than a grain of sea salt and narrow enough to pass through the eye of a needle”, a purse so small you’ll need a microscope to see it just sold for a whopping $63 750 (R1,2 million) at auction.

The tiny object, measuring 657 x 222 x 700 micrometres, is MSCHF’s making. The art collective based in Brooklyn is known for its controversial designs, having been behind the unauthorised Nike ‘Satan Shoes’, which contain a drop of blood and cost $1 018, promoted by the rapper Lil Nas X.

MSCHF already settled a lawsuit with Nike in 2021 over its sale of the modified trainers and happens to also be appealing in a Vans trademark lawsuit. They’ve also been the brainchild behind trainers with holy water in the soles, a cologne that smells like WD-40, and giant red rubber boots.

They like to rock the boat, and this time, the collective decided to take the trend of small handbags to the extreme using Louis Vuitton branding, without any actual connection to the brand.

“There are big handbags, normal handbags and small handbags, but this is the final word in bag miniaturisation,” MSCHF said in a post about the bag.

MSCHF’s chief creative officer, Kevin Wiesner, told the New York Times earlier this month that the group had not sought permission from Louis Vuitton to use their brand, arguing that “We are big in the ‘ask forgiveness, not permission’ school”.

Get your glasses to see this one:

 

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Okay, here it is zoomed in:

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The BBC reported that it is made of photopolymer resin and was created using a 3D printing technology often used to make tiny mechanical models and structures.

While it was being created, some of the tiny bag samples sent to be reviewed by the brand were so small that they were lost by the MSCHF team, the Smithsonian magazine reports.

Included in the auction purchase was a microscope with a digital display, so at least if the tiny speck of a bag gets lost in the owner’s possession, they’ll have proof it once existed.

In fact, anyone can get their hands on a little image as the microscopes with digital displays can be bought from online retailers and can range in price from $60 to thousands of dollars.

We get it, everything is absurd.

[source:bbc]