Kelly Osborne's $2,400 laundry bag
This past Spring Louis Vuitton (the world leader in absurdly overpriced bags), premiered these enormous, checkered plastic totes as part of their collection. They look practical, straightforward -- probably good for carrying clothes to the laundromat or groceries home from the supermarket.Except the bags cost £1,200 (about $2,400).
What crazy person would pay such a ridiculous amount for a $5 plastic laundry bag, simply because it's adorned with a Louis Vuitton stamp?
Why, Kelly Osborne, of course! They 22-year-old rocker was recently spotted carrying the tote when leaving her London apartment. As you can see in the photo, Kelly looks confused -- just like I would be if I'd paid $2,395 extra for something just because it once appeared on a runway.














Reader Comments (Page 1 of 10)
9-29-2007 @ 11:07PM
shopgirll said...
Thing is, Kelly probably did not pay for that bag. It was probably a "gift". LV will probably get plenty of sales from wannabes that see her carrying it around!
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10-03-2007 @ 6:21AM
nadia said...
You know, back home, where i come from, we use them as grocery shopping bags and they cost about $1-$3.
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10-03-2007 @ 6:21AM
nadia said...
You know, back home, where i come from, we use them as grocery shopping bags and they cost about $1-$3.
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10-03-2007 @ 6:32AM
Sarah said...
Every time I see Kelly Osborne, I wonder if she regrets getting those hideous tatoos.
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10-03-2007 @ 6:37AM
gotta love it said...
To each his/her own!!
That's what makes it all very interesting.
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10-03-2007 @ 6:43AM
Valerie said...
The bag lady down the street has the same bag sanz the Vouitton thing, she keeps hers full of empty cans.
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10-03-2007 @ 6:57AM
Michelle said...
I've personally never liked LV bags and have never fathomed why some women love them. On the other hand I think this new one isn't half bad, I wouldn't pay more than $5 for it but it's the first LV I've seen that I didn't have the gut reaction of "ugh" to.
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10-03-2007 @ 7:01AM
CJ said...
Mine cost ninety-nine cents. No LV of course.
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10-03-2007 @ 7:23AM
R said...
Louis Vuitton is not the leader in overpriced handbags, that's just silly. They never go out of style and they wear well, so you wind up keeping them much longer than a regular bag and therefore get to amortize the cost over the life of the bag.
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10-03-2007 @ 7:24AM
laprns said...
That one is nowhere near as bad as that pieced together craptastic bag Bouncy has been carrying. It's some limited edition, 50K joke Marc Jacobs or some designer there with a sense of humor put together.
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10-03-2007 @ 7:36AM
christi said...
you can get this same bag in Mexico for 2 bucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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10-03-2007 @ 7:41AM
Q said...
We do carry those as market bags in Belgium and they cost about 2 euro a pop, without the signature LV.
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10-03-2007 @ 7:47AM
cchristinefor said...
the poster in regard to her getting the bag free is most definitely correct...the poster who said that she is certainly ruining herself, by getting all those dark tatoos is certainly correct...she is starting to look like her dad (who i love after watching the osbournes)...as they say, apples don't fall far from trees...oh...i really love the bag and the price makes it even more desirable...as everything is relative, it depends on your finances, but again, those who can most afford it, get it for free LOL!
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10-03-2007 @ 7:48AM
John F.C. Taylor said...
Even if it were a gift, that thing shouldn't be seen in public. Even if it weren't ugly, prices like the one quoted in the article are just rediculous. Take $2,400 to K-Mart or Wal-Mart and you could buy a whole wardroobe, not just one ugly bag.
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10-03-2007 @ 7:53AM
all4blairs said...
they? What?
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10-03-2007 @ 7:58AM
Rossi said...
Oh good grief...it isn't a regular handbag...it's a daytripper. You know...or overnighter. ANNNNNND for that purpose...I like it
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10-03-2007 @ 8:02AM
sirenrose said...
it's a hideous bag, I saw a little old lady carrying it in the supermarket.
2400! You got to be kidding me, she has no taste whatsoever.
Yuk!!!
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10-03-2007 @ 8:16AM
Hotmale said...
If you got it flant it, but don't flant it with that ugly a_ _ bag. There is nothing that any of Ozzies kids need to flant except his oldest daughter, ( the one with sense and good looking one) that can flant anything. So please keep these other two pitiful kids out of the headlines.
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10-03-2007 @ 8:23AM
drock said...
she has an eating problem. kelly, keep you chubby fingers out of the cookie jar!
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10-03-2007 @ 8:30AM
vampiretombartek said...
Those are tattoos???? Why do people do that to themselves?
As for the bag: plaid????? Why does LV put out such ugly stuff? Well, at least it is better looking than the bag that is the color of baby poop.
-author of the book The Vampire Tom Bartek
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