Excessory Baggage: The Dog Bag by Meryl Smith

By Alex in Animals & Pets, Art, Fashion, Pictures on Apr 10, 2008 at 2:54 pm

Carrying a little dog in your bag is so 2007. This year, the haute couture is combining the two directly!! Behold the Excessory Baggage, a wry commentary/art by Meryl Smith:

The Honey Space, a usually unattended "no-profit" gallery in a Chelsea warehouse, asked 5 curators to select artists to create works that meet the size and weight requirements of international carry-on luggage. Perhaps inspired by Vuitton’s nineteenth-century origins as a maker of upscale traveling cases, Meryl Smith combined leather, papier-mache, gold paint, and a (fake?) LV zipper to create Excessory Baggage. Yes, models and actresses are still accessorizing with little dogs, but why try to smuggle your barking purse pup through security when you could settle for convenient faux taxidermy instead?

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  1. D.P.F.
    Apr 10th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    do you have to take it out to poop?

  2. Lore
    Apr 10th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    That looks so freaking creepy…

  3. CheeseDuck
    Apr 10th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    Ahhhhhhh!! PETA is going to be so pissed off.

  4. Aeris
    Apr 10th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    Lore, that’s just what I was going to say. :D so: seconded.

  5. ted
    Apr 10th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    Looks more like a piggy.

  6. Lea
    Apr 10th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    That is terrifying.
    Well done but terrifying.
    Great commentary on the “taking your tiny dog everywhere in your purse” fad.

  7. Video Game Dork
    Apr 10th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    its looks like a pig. furthermore, it sort of looks like a dark statement on vanity and materialism. Like something Maryln Manson would have.

    Could it that fashion designers are subconciously mocking themselves?

  8. Ali S.
    Apr 10th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    @ ted

    That’s exactly what I thought at first!

  9. empty-minded
    Apr 10th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    I vote pig as well. I wonder if it’s made from pigskin.

  10. su.wei
    Apr 10th, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    kinda creepy. and i agree it looks like a piggy!

  11. Louise
    Apr 10th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    That is horrible. Just horrible.

    Yet it is Art, because it makes us look beyond the immediate reaction and find some other idea – perhaps the artist’s, perhaps our own original insight.

    So remember – even when it is a Vuitton, that leather purse is just a bag made of skin. Skin that an animal was killed for.

  12. Rosi
    Apr 11th, 2008 at 3:33 am

    This isn’t really new, there’s been a company which make dog shaped bags for ages called Fuzzy Nation (www.fuzzynation.com)
    I have one in the shape of a chiuaua and my sister has a patterned one in the shape of a pug.
    And for people who have heart attacks about leather you can buy them in fabric as well.

  13. gnarley
    Apr 11th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    Think Paris is going to give up her live ones to get one of these? Or just carry one in the other…

  14. Thomas
    Apr 11th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT!! That, sir, is an affront to god.

  15. Helen Bickers
    Apr 12th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    That thing is an eerily accurate rendition of a chihuahua. The way they hunker down with their feet & tail tucked looking worried you might leave them behind. it’s really really creepy! Does it shake?

  16. pet strollers
    May 7th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    LOL.

    That’s a bit CREEPY!

  17. Luggage Repair Parts Guide
    Aug 4th, 2008 at 1:10 am

    Ok that looks a bit weird in my opinion! lol… Someone might mistake it for a real dog (like my 3-yr old daughter!)

    Cheers!
    Sal

  18. kaci
    May 14th, 2010 at 3:24 pm

    i dont think has anything to do with carrying dogs with you everywhere. i thinks its more of a comentary of how some high end bags are made out of animals and how would you like it if someone went and turned your dog or cat into a bag.


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