Proceeds From The 'World's Most Expensive Handbag' Worth Rs 52 Crore To Help Save Our Oceans

Priced at €6m (?5.3m) or Rs 52 crore, roughly, this beautiful bag might just be what the world needs in order to save our oceans.

This moment is pretty relevant considering close to €800,000 or Rs 7 crore in proceeds will help fund operations to clean the oceans.

Boarini Milanesi

Luxury Italian brand, Boarini Milanesi, concerned by the rising amount of microplastics in our oceans, designed this bag hoping to draw everyone's attention and some good money towards the brilliant cause.

"Recently, I have seen even more plastic in the sea than when I was a child, due to the pandemic and all the gloves and face masks that are being carelessly thrown away," said the company's co-founder Matteo Rodolfo Milanesi, as reported by Sky News.

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Boarini Milanesi

Talking about his father who always supported such a cause, Milanesi said, "We used to spend every summer at sea, between Greece and Turkey, and I was happiest when we would go on boat trips between the islands. Even though mass tourism was still a long way off, we would often see plastic bags floating on the water or patches of tar leaked by oil tankers."

Only three such bags have been created, and each took close to a 1000 hours to make. Made from alligator skin, the bag comes replete with 10 white gold butterflies covered in diamonds, tourmalines and sapphires. The colour and the stones are symbolic of the colour of water.

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"Blue sapphires represent the depths of the oceans, Paraiba tourmaline reminds us of the uncontaminated Caribbean seas and diamonds refer to the transparency of water when it falls in the form of rain," Carolina Boarini, the brand's co-founder said.

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(H/t: Sky News)