Miu Miu Leather Hobo Bag Carried by Keira Knightley
The new Miu Miu IT bag in 2011: leather hobo bag. It was spotted on Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Sara Carbonero, Zoe Saldana, Rihanna, Annalynne Mccord, etc. If you want it you can grab it from mytheresa.com for $1300.
We know this bag comes in a few combination: blue jeans with ostrich flap, brown lambskin with ostrich flap, creamy lambskin with ostrich flap.
How to spot a fake:
1, the leather. The lambskin on a real Miu Miu hobo bag is very smooth, soft, thin and matt-finish. I would say the leather is as soft and thin as Balenciaga leather, but in a very smooth way (not a distressed way).
A real bag in creamy / grey colour:
A bad replica: fake ostrich flap and cowhide (grainy) leather
The good thing is there is no good replica for Miu Miu hobo bag with ostrich flap and brown lambskin yet by the time I wrote this (August 2011). But there are some good fake lambskin Miu Miu hobo bag with soft lambskin.
Thick and glossy lambskin on good replica – the leather is soft on this replica, but it is more shiny / glossy than the authentic bag. Also, replica lambskin is much thicker, at least twice thicker than the real Miu Miu hobo bag!
I wonder if Miu Miu has ever made this color combination though. Miu Miu drawstrings bag made all lambskin style in two different shades. You can check it below.
Touch the real Miu Miu bag in Harrods or selfridges, you will be amazed at how thin the leather is. I think it can top the list of the thinnest leather along with Celine cabas and Balenciaga bag. The difference between them is Celine cabas leather is slightly glossy (not shiny!) while the other two don’t. Balenciaga leather is very wrinkly while Miu Miu leather is total smooth like baby skin.
The inside pocket design is very tricky as it is detachable. Now the secret to spot a fake is in the buttons that attach the inside pocket: the fake buttons with Miu Miu engraved while the real ones are plain. (Miu Miu might change their design from time to time, but by the time I wrote this two buttons on the detachable inside pocket of an authentic Miu Miu bag don’t have any engraving at all).
This lovely Miu Miu drawstrings hobo bag is for sale in mytheresa.com now.