It must the be the ultimate fash-oon iPod accessory, a £1,000 Fendi’s Juke Box carrying case for transporting multiple iPods. The bag, unveiled by the Italian fashion house at a catwalk show in Milan, is a rectangular gilded purse about the size of a bread bin.
It is lined with multicolored cloth and incorporates a pocket for holding up to a dozen iPods. Lest it seem like a joke, it is not. The purse is designed specifically as an iPod carrying case. There’s even a hole on one side for the iPod’s earpiece cable.
“It was designed for the iPod,” confirmed Fendi spokeswoman Ayana Lewis, who is based in New York.
The bag is supposedly available at Fendi boutiques nationwide, although outlets in New York and Los Angeles have yet to receive a shipment, according to sales floor associates.
The Juke Box was designed by German designer and iPod fanatic Karl Lagerfeld. It is based on Lagerfeld’s own iPod carrying case, an antique leather case “monogrammed for some Jazz Age aristocrat,” according to a description by Hamish Bowles, Vogue’s European editor at large.
Lagerfeld uses the case to stow his multiple iPods—a dozen at last count, which translates into around 120,000 tracks, all of which he seems to know where to find, Bowles reports.
However, since Bowles’ report, Lagerfeld has increased his collection significantly—to 40 iPods. That’s right, he now owns 40 iPods, according to the latest issue of French Elle. Modeling a silver jogging suit, Lagerfeld confesses to owning 40 of the devices. Although at first glance the reader may assume he means a single 40-GB iPod, he meant what he said: He has 40 iPods.
Source: Wired News
