We’re all familiar with Jamie Chua’s vast Hermes handbag collection that is neatly stowed away in her fingerprint-password protected wardrobe. However, less has been said about her extensive Louis Vuitton (LV) collection.
Showing off some of her favourite LV items in a YouTube video uploaded on Sept 2, the socialite revealed a surprising fact — she actually doesn’t put anything in the bags!
While most people purchase bags and trunks for practical use, the 47-year-old explained that instead, 
many of her pieces are used to decorate her wardrobe.
Image source: Screengrab from YouTube / Jamie Chua
This includes her Coffret Tresor 20, a little trunk which costs $5,800, and the larger Tresor 24, which costs a whopping $7,000.
Image source: Screengrab from YouTube / Jamie Chua
She also showed off her Essential Trunk, a miniature handbag that’s inspired by the iconic and significantly larger Louis Vuitton trunk.
“It’s very, very tiny. I don’t know what I could put inside. Maybe just a small lipstick and a small compact,” she suggested.
The handbag is so miniscule that it can even be looped around your belt, which she deftly demonstrates in the video.
Image source: Screengrab from YouTube / Jamie Chua
She also has the $6,700 Petite Boite Chapeau which, as she aptly describes, “fits nothing”, but was bought to match her Hat Box 30.
Image source: Screengrab from YouTube / Jamie Chua
Another mini bag that’s more form than function is her Limited Edition Black Epi World Tour Petite Malle Bag, a decorative item that doesn’t fit much but features adorable “stickers” representing various cities.
Image source: Screengrab from YouTube / Jamie Chua
Besides her plush leather pieces, Jamie also highlighted her three Scott boxes, which are essentially acrylic boxes embellished with the iconic LV monogram. These are priced between $1,530 to $1,870.
“They’re very pretty, just [use] them to decorate like your living room table or something,” she said. “I’ve got this square one which you can see that I don’t put anything in them, I just like them as decorations”.
But size isn’t the only reason why Jamie doesn’t use some of her bags — functionality plays a part too.
For instance, her $3,550 Boite Chapeau Souple MM. While she said it “fits quite a lot inside”, the complicated buckle can be quite a hassle to undo and the bag doesn’t open fully.
Image source: Screengrab from YouTube / Jamie Chua
“Sooner or later, you’re going to lose your patience with it,” she said as she struggled to close the bag. “But, I think it’s still a cute collectors piece to have sitting in the closet”.
As for the $14,500 Boite Bijoux, which is actually a jewellery box, Jamie doesn’t store her jewellery in it as she finds it safer to lock her valuables up in a safe.
Image source: Screengrab from YouTube / Jamie Chua
“It’s just safer that way instead of putting them into a box like that, which makes it easy for someone to just to take it all away,” she explained.
Nonetheless, it’s still a gorgeous statement piece that makes occasional appearances in the background of her Instagram shots and vlogs.
Despite having so many petite and somewhat non-functional handbags and trunks, Jamie admits that she gets the most use out of her LV Egg Bag.
“I’m not such a huge fan of very tiny, tiny handbags because I just cannot fit my whole life in them,” she shared. “Sometimes I succumb to temptation and I buy some of them.”
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This article was first published on AsiaOne and republished on theAsianparent with permission.
Lead image source screengrab from YouTube / Jamie Chua.
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