This fashion house is taking home gold in Paris. Rabanne debuted what has been hailed as the world’s “most expensive bag,” made from over 100 18-karat gold medallions, at Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday. The one-of-a-kind handcrafted 1969 Nano bag is worth €250,000, or nearly $280,000, and took 100 hours to create in collaboration with the French jeweler Arthus Bertrand, according to Women’s Wear Daily .
“In a perfect fusion of our two houses, I immediately had the vision of the Rabanne pastille twisted into a medal,” Arthus Bertrand’s artistic director Camille Toupet said in a statement . It’s unclear if it will be for sale or if multiple have been made. The Post has reached out to Rabbane, now owned by Puig, for comment.
The metallic handbag — debuted as part of the spring/summer 2025 collection — is a nod to the fashion house’s “most expensive dress,” crafted in 1968 for French singer Françoise Hardy, who died earlier this year . In 1968, she donned the heavy medallion gown , which was made from 1,000 gold tiles and 300 carats of diamonds, with a full security escort and an armored vehicle “like a precious treasure,” Rabanne’s creative director Julien Dossena told WWD. Paco Rabanne, who founded the house in 1966 and is widely lauded as an innovator of “ space-age fashion ,” was known for his experimental designs with unconventional materials such as paper, plastic and metals, launching his atelier with a collection of one dozen “ u.