Good morning everybody, there is a reason
why I'm surrounded by a whole bunch of
lux looking boxes, we're going to be doing
a collective haul and unboxing.
I've got a couple of things that I've
[stammers] I hate to say the word, picked up
'cause I feel like that's an overused term
and it's too casual because really,
when you're buying anything designer,
it's kind of a big deal, and you should never
lose sight of it no matter how much
designer you've bought
over the years, I don't know.
So a couple of things I've purchased
over the last several months,
some more recently than others,
I did already un-box this on my Vlogmas series.
So if you want to watch that, I'll link the playlist
up in the corner of the screen right over here
so that you can watch that.
But I just felt it was a little too casual,
like I was too excited to open it,
I wanted to open it right away,
and the proper unboxing is there,
but I wanted to kind of give it
a little bit more screen time,
and with like a proper sit down video
'cause I just feel like a bag deserves that, you know?
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We'll start with the smaller item
because it's the most boring. [laughs]
It comes, I guess this is just like
the casual holiday packaging.
In my opinion, Dior does way better holiday packaging
of course, that's all long gone now.
Though you may see that I'm wearing a Christmas sweatshirt,
but it's just the comfiest sweatshirt ever
so I have to wear it.
It's something very simple,
it's just my PM agenda refill.
Even though I don't always use my PM agenda,
about half, this always happens,
about halfway through a year,
I switch up my agenda from a PM to a GM size.
Last year for the better part of the year
I did use the GM, and I'm still using the continuation
of the filofax inserts in my GM agenda.
If you don't know what I'm talking about,
it's the large agenda size like filofax
in Louis Vuitton style,
like three-ring binder.
So I was still using that,
I didn't need to buy new inserts for that,
but I know at some point I will want,
and I'm already itching to go back into my PM size agenda
just to throw it in my bags.
And by that point in the year, this will have gone.
There's nothing left currently
except the small size anyway,
so I kind of panic-bought this about two weeks ago,
or a week and a half ago, and it just finally arrived.
So anyway, these are the PM agenda inserts,
it's the one week on two pages, 2019,
it's got a little like, of course travel trunk
kind of decal themed, they've been putting decals
on a lot of their bags, and I'm not a fan.
I don't like the decals, I don't like the patches on it
that for some reason I think it cheapens
the overall effect unfortunately, I didn't know this,
edges are silver lined again.
Why do they do that?
Almost all their hardware is gold for all of their agendas,
why do they make it silver?
It will look good with my Damier Azur PM agenda,
so maybe I'll put it in that one.
And then in the summer time when I'm feeling the itch,
I'll like, just move over to that one,
and then eventually I'll move back,
it's just a seesaw.
Anyway, it came with, what did it come with?
The usual shenanigans, exchanges and returns,
thank you, and a receipt.
This was... how much?
It says Happy New Year [chuckles],
oh is this, did I put that as a note to myself?
I probably put that a a note to myself,
Happy New Year Kristina [chuckles].
If you want to know how much it costs
for a agenda refill piece of paper,
wow, they gave me the wrong address.
Wow, they gave me the wrong receipt!
Roxy Selenes bought the graceful PM,
wow, they totally put the wow, that's sloppy.
That's sloppy, Louis Vuitton.
Hopefully Roxy doesn't need a paper copy of her receipt.
Alright, so next up we have this giant box.
This is quite possibly the largest Louis Vuitton box
that I've ever opened in my life.
Over you can see for comparison size
the Dior's shopping bag,
but yeah, this is the Louis Vuitton.
This came via courier from my local Louis Vuitton boutique
in the Galleria in Houston, and I didn't know
that they could do that,
but my sales associate who's contact information
I'll leave linked down below,
she offered it to me, and I was like, "Yes!"
'Cause apparently this was the last bag they had,
and in the city of Houston,
and maybe only a couple in the U.S,
so if you want this, you want to get your hands on it
pretty quick because this came out about a month ago,
and it's a pre-cruise, pre-spring,
I'm not really sure, it's a men's collection item
by the way.
But it's for me, or us as a family.
We will be traveling overseas in June,
and I have had my eye on an extra carryon
because you just have to take so much stuff
when you have a child, you just do.
So I have eye on an extra carryon,
I was looking on the Preloved Marketplace,
I was looking kind everywhere,
and then this came across my Instagram,
I'm not really certain.
And I started doing some research into it,
and I was like, "This is absolutely perfect,
"this combines every single thing,
"every aspect I love,
"and has a lot of special significance."
So, it's not just a casual unboxing,
it's not like, "Oh hey, I bought this ginormous bag."
This was really special, enough for me to pull the trigger
on a brand new item, which I don't do that often.
About 50%, well okay, about 50% of the time,
but this for me was a big purchase.
So,
yeah, I justified it in a couple of different ways,
but the bottom line, you'll see when you see it.
Okay, so it's this giant bag,
and huge dust bag
drawstring.
Put this to the side.
Okay, [hums]
we will put you down here.
Opening up the dust bag from here.
Alright, here it is ladies and gents, this is
the Galaxy Keepall
50, I believe,
is that a 50?
I think it's a 50.
And this the monogram galaxy,
so this is a special limited edition
canvas that they're doing,
and here's what I love about it.
First of all, I love all things galaxy.
Ever since, I feel like ever since the Hubble Telescope
took pictures of the galaxy, I've had them
as desktop backgrounds on my computers in college.
All throughout college, I was obsessed
with astronomy, and I took astronomy,
and I wasn't very good at it, but I still liked it.
I just was obsessed with galaxy,
like the photos of the galaxies where it looks like
this big cloud, and it's just so spectral,
and then there's these stars, and it's just so mysterious.
And just to think that each little star has it's own world,
and I don't know, it's just really cool.
So,
I love galaxy pictures.
So to combine some of my favorite things
which is neutral, black, you know,
coated leather handles, all that
which I love from the Macassar, Macassar,
however you say it, line.
You guys know I have a Macassar, Macassar,
Macassar, oh my God, I can't say that word.
But I have that in the Keepall 45,
and, because I love the black,
the black handles.
So that, plus this neutral gray, black,
white color scheme, plus galaxy,
plus the little details on here
like this patch right here is remnant of an [stammers]
astronomer, an astronaut's patch from NASA
on their [stammers] astronaut suit, spacesuits.
So, that's whole special significance for me
because I am Houstonian, and Houston mission,
I mean Mission Control for NASA is based in Houston.
So, sorry that was my, that was my elbow.
So that was really cool because it had this little
kind of Houston touch to it,
and it's the perfect size for a carryon.
So this is going to go with us overseas,
and pretty much anywhere we go traveling forever
because it's just amazing.
The only thing I will say that I wish they hadn't done,
and I guess it's more in line with the sporty vibe,
is that this is all like a seatbelt, it's a fabric strap.
I think that is comfortable because it is whiter
than a normal black strap,
but that's the only thing I was kind of hesitant about.
But when I saw it in person, I was like,
well it's so heavy, and well made,
like everything, none of this is plastic,
this is all this, oh, did I mention the hardware?
Beautiful matte black metal heavy hardware,
even the lock and key, I have never seen a lock and key
from Louis Vuitton in a matte black finish,
it is stunning, absolutely stunning.
There's a lot of stitching and seaming, like,
the stitching goes in these little cross
patterns all across the bag,
it's just beautiful.
And I just have to say when I saw it in person,
I told my sales, she was like,
"Just take a look at it,
"if you don't like it
"you can return it within 30 days if you don't like it.
"But someone really wants it if you don't have it,
"but you had first dibs."
And I was like, "Okay, okay."
She's like, "I'm going to courier it over to you."
And I said, "Oh my gosh, that's fancy."
because it is, if you've ever lived in,
or traveled around Houston, it is like a nightmare
to get into the Galleria area because of traffic.
The moment it came, I opened it up,
and I was like, "Oh my goodness, this is so"
sorry, I'm trying to do the buckle.
So inside, I've actually not even opened it.
There's a bunch of tissue paper.
It says Louis Vuitton, made in France.
[squeals] It's my first made in France bag in a while.
Let me read the model number out to you
so you could just type this into the Louis Vuitton
search forum online, and you could find it.
M-4-4-1-6-6, and of course
it's just coded canvas,
it's just your standard keepall.
Of course, it's got a premium price tag on it
because it is limited.
And I've got the two keys in here
which I think, interestingly enough come separately
which I've never seen before on two separate key rings.
So, that's cool.
I just love the hardware on this,
it's just so unique, it's just matte black,
I've literally never seen anything like it.
It just screams me, if you know me at all,
does this not scream me?
I swear, I'm sorry for shouting
but it is so exciting.
So I'm going to wrap this up.
[zipper closing]
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Alright so for those of you who wanted
to see this beauty again,
as I mentioned kind of in the preamble,
I think I ordered this in October,
or beginning of November, I think it was end of October
to be honest,
I think it was end of October.
I ordered this beauty, and was one of the first people
to take advantage of a very limited
one and 200 bag, or like only 200 bags
were being offered to do this,
personalization of the Dior book tote.
It's famous, it's like,
it's been a total hit around the world.
It's kind of like a book editor's bag,
it's like a beach bag, but it's very slim,
and oversized, and it's made of
this beautiful woven fabric that's made in Antwerp, Belgium
or something like that.
And it's all hand woven, it's incredible.
The detail is insane.
My Dior sales associate sent me a high res picture
of my book tote before I ordered it,
or the high res version that wasn't available online,
and I was floored
because you could see the individual stitches,
and the thread, and how it was woven, it was incredible.
So this is really a well made bag,
even though you may be thinking, "What?
"A woven bag for that X amount of money?"
It's very special.
But it's doubly special because I got mine personalized,
and they don't offer that in the U.S yet.
So,
this is the ginormous shopping bag
which normally, I don't keep the bags,
but this one is so pretty, I would just keep it,
I don't know, wouldn't you?
I mean, it's just so pretty.
So this is the book tote.
Let me undo this thing.
Unfortunately, even though it came in December,
I didn't get the Dior holiday packaging
which I would've killed for.
But there's something very classic about the white,
don't you think?
Anyway, okay, there's the Dior dust bag.
And this is my bag, I haven't seen anybody
with this on YouTube yet.
This is the very special, I don't know what it's called,
but to me, this reminded me a very Norwegian,
like Rosemåling.
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Again, there's got to be a reason
why I'm interested in a bag.
There's got to be some sort of connection that I have.
I don't buy bags just to buy a bag,
and like show it, and flaunt it on YouTube,
and just be like, "Oh, here's my bag"
and then you never see it agan.
Typically I have, if I don't like it, I'll sell it.
Or if it doesn't hold any special significance
for me anymore, I will sell it.
That's why you'll see me sell bags
'cause I just don't hold
a personal connection to it anymore.
So, this bag just really reminded me of rosemåling,
which means rose painting in Norwegian.
And that is a very traditional,
kind of folk painting method, and I grew up
surrounded by that because I grew up
most, every single Christmas up until the age of 12,
I spent my winters in Norway with my Norwegian
side of the family.
So that was something that really resonated with me
because I just thought it was very special,
kind of unique, I don't know,
I just wouldn't see anyone with it.
On top of that I just felt like it was
oddly enough a little bit less busy
than some of the monogram versions,
and even the Etoile version of this bag,
it just, those seemed very busy to me.
This has a lot of black, a lot of black background,
and it just seemed like, it would just kind of go with more.
So this is it kind of slimmed down,
but you can see the back here,
this is what makes it extra special
is that it says Kristina.
So obviously, I'll never part with this bag
since it has my name on it.
And to be honest, I was really worried about pushing
the trigger on this because
you know, I didn't know,
I didn't know if I was going to like it,
and ordering a bag personalized with a site unseen
is very nerve wracking process,
especially for something that costs this much.
But anyway, this is the beautiful Christian Dior book tote,
this is the first and only thing that I have from Dior,
and it will be the first of many, I have a feeling.
Yeah, I just,
I love it, it's beautiful, it's super thick,
it's waterproof, and you can take it to the beach,
not that I would. [laughs]
But you can, just like they say
you could take the Chanel Deauville to the beach,
I would never do that.
So yeah, this is the book tote,
and that is going to be it for my unboxings.
I don't even know what I look like
because I see myself in the viewfinder this whole time,
I don't have my contacts in
so I'm virtually blind.
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