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Why you don’t want to buy Louis Vuitton bags in the USA

Yong Cui
3 min readDec 15, 2019

When it comes to the discussion of top luxury brands for designer bags, some people think of Hermès, some others think of Chanel, but many more think of Louis Vuitton. These three brands are sometimes referred to as the Trinity in the luxury bag world, which have the most popularity in the market. Especially for Louis Vuitton, its sales are ranked №1 among 8 out of the 10 biggest cities according to data from a designer consignment shop.

Popularity of luxury brands in the US (data source: fashionista.com)

People chase bags designed by Louis Vuitton and other luxury brands for good reasons. Their bags use quality leather and other materials, and thus are very durable. In addition, the iconic Trinity brands have the best resale values, and thus they’re great options for collection.

Personally, I like Louis Vuitton most, maybe just because it’s the first luxury brand that I came to know when I was a kid in China. Actually, the first luxury bag that I bought for my wife was Louis Vuitton Speedy 30 Monogram during my conference trip to Portland. Since then, we have bought several bags in the monogram design from various US cities, which is our favorite style over Damier Ebene, Damier Azu Canvas, and a few other prints.

Although we’ve heard that these bags are priced lower in the Europe, we didn’t do any serious research to compare the prices. Last Summer, we finally had a…

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Yong Cui
Yong Cui

Written by Yong Cui

Work at the nexus of biomedicine, data science & mobile dev. Author of Python How-to by Manning (https://www.manning.com/books/python-how-to).

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