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Vanities/The Gallery
The ancient Egyptians saw the scarab as an emblem of rebirth. This collaboration between Judith Leiber and Lanvin, created from an original mold cast by Leiber herself almost 40 years before her death in 2018, marries that storied symbolism with the more modern influence of Art Deco architecture. Taking as its base Leiber's long-favored brass box, the bag winks Jazz Age glamour from each of its more than 10,000 European crystals, which took an artisan nearly a week to bead by handLong live a beetle as bright as the Chrysler Building, as big as the Ritz.
Dora Fung
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