They sell this microscopic “Louis Vuitton” bag for $63,000

AND microscopic bag imitation Louis Vuitton fluorescent green was sold at an online auction for a hefty price of $63,000 (about 58,000 euros), reported Thursday The New York Times.

A tiny addition, smaller than a grain of salt and accompanied by a microscope to see, is the work art collective MSCHFwhich is dedicated to creating fashion items critical of capitalist consumerism.

The bag, put up for auction on the Joopiter portal, received 36 bids starting at a minimum of $15,000 and was finally awarded yesterday Wednesday to someone -unidentified- who bid $51,000, a figure to which fees were added.

Created using a 3D printer, the MSCHF sought to encourage reflection on how objects lose their practicality when reduced to a piece of jewelry, their function abstracted as “pure brand representation,” according to the description.

“I think he bag it’s a fun object because it’s derived from something rigorously functional. But it actually became jewelry,” the group’s creative director Kevin Wiesner, who denied asking Louis Vuitton for permission to use its logo, told US media.

Collective copied the famous “LV” monogram and based the design of the bag on a model that costs between $3,100 and $4,300 in life sizeaccording to CNN.