the British artist Marc Quinn has created an exclusive limited collection of bags, credit card cases and clutches for the fashion house Christian Dior. The release of this collection is timed to the opening of the new store House of Dior in London. To sell bags and other accessories from Quinn will be there. Prices from £250 for a card holder to £5 000 for a big bag.

According to the artist, he readily undertook the creation of the collection, because it likes to make functional works of art. As told by Quinn, the first Dior only asked one the bag, however the artist, as they say, carried away. "It's interesting to think of what-то developing in a series", — says Quinn.

the basis for the prints was the famous photorealistic paintings of Quinn with orchids and paintings from the series "We share our chemistry with the stars." Form classic handbags — Lady Dior, for the first time represented the firm in 1995 and later renamed in honor of Princess Diana. Only 10 series of items, including bags of different size, Sasha, clutches and credit card cases.

"Bag — is a sculptural form that enables you to work with images differently than on the two-dimensional surface; on the bag you can repeat the fragments, to change the format and to reflect image", — commented on the work on the collection of Marc Quinn.

And at that time, as for Dior rely on the design of the bags from the popular artists, the fashion house of Hermes in the manufacture of its famous Birkin bags the focus on the-прежнему pays just very expensive materials: crocodile skin, gold hardware, diamond inlay. And while the latter technique is more effective. At Christie's auction in Hong Kong on may 30 set a new world record price for a handbag: an instance of Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Birkin Diamond was bought for $300 108. This is a bag made of crocodile skin, dyed time-consuming way in color, reminiscent of snow-capped peaks and the slopes of the Himalayas. Such bags a year produced no more than 1-2 pieces. Finishing of precious metals and stones add to the bag cost.

prior To this, the most expensive bag in the world also had a bag Hermes: $220 000 worth bright-розовая bag crocodile.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: telegraph.co.uk, artnet.com, artinvestment.ru