Celebrities flaunt their luxury bags as a status symbol. Actress Marian Rivera has posted on social media photos of herself carrying a Hermès Shadow Birkin, Bottega Veneta White Knot and Margaux from The Row.

Actress and fashionista Heart Evangelista has socmed posts of herself carrying a Moynat, Delvaux Brillant and a Platt micro from Acne Studios.

The bags are priced from P60,000 to over P5 million.

Hermès artistic director Pierre-Alexis Dumas explained why such bags are costly. They are handmade by well-trained artisans instead of by machines, he told CBS News.

Meanwhile, French fashion house Paco Rabanne was behind the most expensive bag that was presented in the spring/summer 2025 Paris Fashion Week on 25 September.

The 18-karat gold, square-shaped Nano bag that Rabanne made in 1969 for the late style icon and French singer Françoise Madeleine Hardy is priced at $279,000 or P16,000,000, the Independent reports.

Rabanne was said to have spent 100 hours working on the bag alongside Arthus Bertrand, a French rtisan jeweler, according to Independent.

At the Art Basel in Miami, Florida, on 6 December, artist and diamond mine developer Evens Saint Clair was selling a tote dubbed “La Reine.”

“The handcrafted Japanese wood frame is overlaid with Italian leather and pieces of rare silk kimono fabric dusted with gold leaf and strengthened by pearl shell,” New York Post (NYP) reports.

The bag also has “over 18 carats of diamonds placed throughout — from the front porcelain tile badge to the gold-plated feet of the bag to the multiple strands of bejeweled gold chains, which also boast emeralds and pearls,” according to NYP.

NYP adds that each Saint Clair bag takes up to a year to produce and passes through Japan, Guinea, Italy, and Turkey before arriving in his hometown of Bal Harbor, Florida, where the final embellishments are added.

The La Reine’s price tag is $1.2 million.