I research many things on the Inter­nets. This is not one of them. But I found it and could not stop laugh­ing. And it gives me an oppor­tu­nity to kick off the “Post-​​​​modernism” cat­e­gory. Via Manolo’s Shoe Blog, which itself comes to me via Mr. Flib­ber­ti­gib­bet, the Louis Vit­ton Franken­purse: Appar­ently, it costs $52,500 and they’re only mak­ing two dozen. Bey­oncé Knowles and the cur­rent Mrs. Rudy Giu­liani are rumored to be among the elite few pur­chasers. Wit­ness the Post-​​​​modernism at work here. Rather than make a new, classy, styl­ish bag that a beau­ti­ful woman wouldn’t have to com­pete with for atten­tion, they [ . . . ]

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