Article: In the bag: once you fall for Louis Vuitton, you know it's forever.(CULTUREVULTURE)

i'll never forget the first time I saw Louis Vuitton. It was in Neiman Marcus in Dallas, and I was 12 years old. "Holy moly," I said. "That is the ugliest luggage I ever saw." It was an awful brown color with little designs all over it, and I couldn't imagine anybody actually buying it. And when my father explained to me that it was the fanciest, most expensive luggage in the world, I refused to believe him. "But it's so ugly."

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Well, my taste has matured. Just last week I found myself bidding on eBay Motors for a 1990 Lexus with a Louis Vuitton interior. One look and I knew I had to have it. (So did everybody else; the bidding war ...

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