We all know that Kim Kardashian is one of the most superficial and mindless consumers in the world. She’s not so much a person as a collection of social media sponcon and unearned privilege and wealth. We’ve known for years that Kim spends a fortune on her kids, buying them designer clothes and giving them tons of expensive sh-t that they outgrow in a month or get bored with in a day. The Kardashian-West kids have baby Lambos and Chanel purses and toddler Hummers and diamond necklaces. It’s like the worst on America, on steroids. But even this bugged me: when Kim was in Japan, she bought mini-Louis Vuitton purses for all of the “baby girls” in the family:
Kim Kardashian West went all out on Christmas gifts for her famous family this past holiday! On Tuesday, Kardashian West, 38, revealed she bought Louis Vuitton Speedy Mini handbags for her daughters North, 5, and Chicago, 11 mos, and nieces Penelope, 6, Dream, 2, Stormi, 11 mos, and True, 8 mos.
“I got these for all of the baby girls in the fam for Xmas from Japan,” Kardashian West wrote over the Instagram Stories photo, which showed the multicolored bags from the Takashi Murakami Collection, which launched in 2003. In total, Kardashian West brought back eight bags, explaining she “kept one for myself and extras for the future,” after a fan asked who the remaining purses were for.
I’m including the photo below – I know a lot of people love those Murakami LV bags, but am I alone in thinking they’re just kind of tacky, nouveau riche status symbols? If I had the money, I would spend a fortune on handbags, to be clear – I would buy up so many great-quality Marc Jacobs, Kate Spade and Hermes purses, it would make your head spin. But I wouldn’t waste my money on those LV purses. Also: Stormi and True are less than a year old, wtf do they care about a status symbol purse? They’re probably happier playing with a box, or mama’s keys.
Oh wait I kept one for myself and extras for the future lol https://t.co/7631Vwuhol
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) January 8, 2019
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
It looks like the fake ones you can get for a fraction of the price…so much kash, so little klass.
Japan is close to China. Prob made a quick stop at the factory that produces all their body parts and requested LV bags.
Hahahaha! I see what you did there.
She didn’t get them at an LV retail store anywhere. It’s deadstock. The company discontinued the line at least 2 years ago. Kanye West has/had an interest in Japanese design/fashion at some point. So maybe they know the artist & she got the bags from him? I don’t think she’d be dumb enough to flaunt knockoffs.
Kim k buys something tacky, I’m shocked!
I love Takashi Murakami, but these are awful. His Instagram account is very special tho.
How many pocketbooks do they need? Those ones look cheap and tacky, and she looks like she’s wearing a lopsided cloth headband across her boobs. Not very stylish
No worries, she’ll sell those during one of her “charity” Ebay auctions soon enough.
I mean, I’m a bourgeoisie pig with the best of them, but they vaguely nauseate me with their level of mindless consumption. Kim K is basically four tacky purses and a vat of silicone stuffed into a human skin at this point.
Also, those LV bags are hideous, and I’ve never understand the appeal of the brand. The only collection they did that I found remotely attractive was their masters art collection, and they managed to ruin even that by slapping the name of the artist over the canvas print as though the majority of the Western world was so uneducated that they culdn’t recognize Starry Night at first sight. (Even then, wouldn’t the whole appeal of a “masters” bag be condescendingly explaining to some uncultured swine what artist the painting was from and why it was the sign of occidental decay that their work wasn’t immediately recognizable to the lower classes?)
Kylie posted a video of Stormi with her bag and it is a really cute video! She throws the bag on her little baby arm and waves and says “bye”. I’m no Kardashian fan at all, but that video was cute
Probably all she sees of the family except when they need a photo prop. Bag on arm, heading out the door, kids with nannies.
Tacky and nouveau riche=Kardashians.
I think the designer purse collecting is like art collecting, beyond nouveau riche show boating, they see it as investments. You get a sweet deal on a $10,000 handbag, like for free, you write it off again as a work expense, get kickback whenever you get photographed with it and then sell it years later. If it’s a limited edition, it’s #MONNEH. Can you imagine what that George Condo Birkin must be worth?? I keep seeing it as the equivalent of when women would have their jewels and their silverware as their “emergency getaway cash.”
This comment made me so mad—I mean not you lol–but just thinking of how celebrities with shit-tons of money get all these special perks on top of that. I know, I know…who cares, but it just BUGS.
Wow. And here I am trying to find a car to buy under $12K.
This kind of excess is disgusting.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Murakami – luckily I don’t see much of his work in these bags. The old collaboration was a little bit more reflective of his style, but these just look cheap.
So ugly. And this is coming from someone obsessed with handbags.
I would love a celine purse!
I’m so surprised they still make these. They are very 2005, IMO