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Designer Meryl Smith created this bag for The Honey Space in Chelsea, NYC and I find something very wrong with this Louis Vuitton doggie bag.
And I’m not just saying that because its Friday night and I live in New York City and I should be somewhere downing alcoholic beverages as if they were bringing Prohibition back tomorrow but instead I’m in front of my PC writing. Its not that. I think I find this bag spooky ‘cause its face looks too much like a real dog. That’s it!
Here’s another doggy bag:
If you're one of those people who think it's cute yet cruel to tote your dog under your arm like it's an accessory, then you'll appreciate the Daschund Bag. The purse looks like a little wiener dog, is about the same of one too, and nestles nicely under your arm. This gives you the feeling of carr… [More]
The Honey Space, a usually unattended "no-profit" gallery in a Chelsea warehouse, asked 5 curators to select artists to create works that meet the size and weight requirements of international carry-on luggage. Perhaps inspired by Vuitton’s nineteenth-century origins as a maker of upscale traveling cases, Meryl Smith combined leather, papier-mache, gold paint, and a (fake?) LV zipper to create Excessory Baggage. Yes, models and actresses are still accessorizing with little dogs, but why try to smuggle your barking purse pup through security when you could settle for convenient faux taxidermy instead?
(neatorama)
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