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What crisis? Millennial nostalgia fuels rush for $7050 handbags

Michelle Bowes

Cost-of-living pressures seem to be having little effect on the limited-edition luxury goods market, with a new collection from Louis Vuitton that taps into Millennial nostalgia close to selling out in Australia.

The storied luxury fashion house, widely known for its brown-and-beige monogrammed bags, has refreshed a 21-year-old collaboration with Takashi Murakami, the iconic Japanese contemporary artist known for his colourful, cartoonish designs.

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Michelle Bowes writes about personal finance from our Sydney newsroom. She has been a business journalist for 25 years and is the author of Money Queens: Rule your Money, an award-winning personal finance book for teenage girls. Email Michelle at michelle.bowes@afr.com

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