- Hey, y'all welcome to my channel.
My name is Candace and today I'll be comparing
the Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag
and the Saint Laurent Niki Baby.
This was a subscriber request. Today I will specifically
be speaking about
the patent leather Lou Monogram Camera Bag.
But as you know,
this bag comes in several different colors,
textures, as well as metal colors.
And so does the Niki Baby.
There's also the larger Niki or the Niki medium,
I believe it's called.
If you wants something bigger than this, but,
the Baby and the Lou Camera Cross body are what we'll be
comparing today.
- let's do this.
- I already have an extensive review on the Niki Baby posted
I'll link it below. Link it below for you,
in case you've never checked it out.
First of all, I love both of these bags.
I know I supposed to be picking one.
I will be picking one up by the end of the video.
I promise I'll try to try my best.
I recommend both of these.
Go ahead and put it out there and
they're both different in their
own way. I feel like this one,
aside from color, aside from metal color is more casual,
but it can be dressy.
This one, it can be casual and dressy as well.
Okay, That's not helping. I realize that.
So let me try tell you guys which one I prefer. Okay.
First of all, let's start with the Niki Baby.
The Niki Baby, this retails for 20 50.
This particular color is in black vintage crinkled leather.
And it has the so black hardware.
I believe that's what you call it.
And it also has the brushed gunmetal for the straps.
It's a flat bag you can wear it Cross body,
you can wear it shoulder style.
It's very versatile as far as that.
You could even carry it as a clutch because it's so
crinkled. And because it's has that vintage worn look,
you can kind of squish it if you want
and put it under your arm,
you don't have to worry about it destroying the leather,
because that's kind of the point, you know,
it's a vintage crinkled leather.
So squishing it won't have any effect on
the appearance of the bag,
because it's meant to appear that way.
Has a flap opening and I'll take out my insert
just to be fair, not everybody has an insert,
but in case you do want one I'll link it below for you
Its black interior has one large compartment
with that inner side pocket, slit pocket, right there,
as well as this front pouch here.
Which you could put your phone even,
cause it fits in there. For reference,
I have one of the larger phones. This is an 11 Pro Max,
makes sure my business isn't on my screen.
I have an 11 Pro Max that fits in there quite beautifully.
If you want to slide that in there for easy access.
That's a pocket that I love for that purpose.
Also on the back of the bag,
I have hand wipes. At least we know we're sanitized.
And that is the back flap pocket here.
So it has a ton of compartments,
that's one and a pluses about this bag.
I love the adjustable strap here.
You could do it shorter here. Double strap,
or you can let it go.
♪ Let it go ♪
One strap, lengthen it, wear it shoulder Cross body.
The double strap can also be worn on the shoulder as well.
You can do it top hand- or not really top handle,
but like and the crook of your arm.
You can do it that way. The possibilities are endless. Okay?
Just know you have versatility when choosing the Niki Baby.
for that 20 50.
And I can think of countless bags that are more expensive
than this, that don't even do what this does.
And the fact that it's low maintenance because of the
material, because of the fabric, you can't beat the price.
Let's just be honest. I will show you what fits in here.
I still have my phone in here. I mean, come on.
You can fit an entire Louis Vuitton Mini Pochette
without a problem in there.
If you want to carry that, and keep in mind,
the Mini Pochette can be used to store things as well.
So don't just think you're taking up
a lot of room with this.
You can put stuff inside
and still have room for other stuff.
I have some hand wipes. I'll just go ahead and put those in,
in the back pocket because I often need quick access for
things like that.
I have this card holder, we'll pretend like it has cards
in there. It's the Saint Laurent one in neon yellow.
It's patent leather as well.
I have a Gucci bronzer here that goes in without a hitch.
Let's get some keys in here
cause I can't go nowhere without that,
unless I'm taking a Lyft or something.
I have my six key from Louis Vuitton.
This is what we have so far.
I have this pack of gum here, Pür,
just because I have the room.
This is my three times battery charger and throw it on top.
I'm kind of pushing my limits here, but believe it or not,
it still closes without a problem.
There it is from the side, from the top,
from the bottom. It's pretty heavy. Okay.
I'm not going to stunt on that end. It's not super heavy.
You know, with the fabric itself it's lightweight,
but of course the more you put in your bag,
the heavier your bag is gonna be.
So I mean this holds a lot.
And don't forget with that Mini Pochette,
You can put whatever you want in here, that fits into this
bag and have more things to carry in your bags. So to me,
that fits a lot, that fits more than the necessities.
It fits everything and then some. You could even throw,
I don't know, a protein bar or something in there.
You have room for that. It's super roomy, it fits so much.
Okay, let's move on to the Lou Camera Cross body.
This particular fabric and this color retold for 1450 at the
time. And this is the neon yellow color,
as I mentioned in case you guys missed it.
First and foremost, I will take out my bag insert,
again, I will link this one below for you as well.
Uh oh, how do we get, okay.
It's not as hard as it looks, I was just struggling for
no reason. It has a large interior, like a large interior,
no dividers or anything.
The only divider you have is the side slip pocket,
which is pretty standard for Saint Laurent bags.
Very roomy. It allows you more flexibility,
if you have thicker items to put in your bag.
You have room to put that you're not limited with something
like the Niki Baby, even though it's not super limited.
Okay, I'm just giving you kind of an example,
but you're not super limited as far as what you can put in.
So that's a good and bad thing,
but an easy fix to having a limited compartment or to having
a wide compartment. If you want something more limited,
you can get a bag insert,
and therefore have your compartments.
If that's something you're concerned about.
If that's your only reason for getting the Niki Baby,
I would save your money and spend, I don't know, 30,
40 bucks, however much these costs, on a bag insert.
That will save you a lot of money.
If you just want compartment. It's not totally necessary.
Also with the bag insert,
it allows your bag to hold a structure.
Although I have the patent leather,
the traditional ones come in standard leather,
which are not as low maintenance as something like the
vintage crinkled leather,
because you have to be concerned about creasing.
You have to be concerned about
the bag maintaining the shape.
So in which case the bag insert
would be a great idea as well for you.
It's very roomy inside.
I mean, everything that I fit into my Niki Baby,
I can also fit into here.
I have my Mini Pochette,
I believe that's the color I showed.
I have my six key, just toss some things in,
because I have that liberty and
freedom to do that with the wide compartment.
I have this card holder that just so happens to match.
I have my Pür gum, I have my Gucci face bronzer,
I have my hand wipes. We'll just toss those in.
Of course I can also fit in my 11 Pro Max in here.
I put it along the side. That's where we are on space now.
And I can also fit in my battery charger and I still have a
bit of room and I could still zip it with no problems.
It's not overstuffed or anything.
It's more than I would carry,
but I just want to show you your maximum storage capability
here. It literally it holds the same amount,
and then some, just to show you,
cause I put the exact same items.
I don't think I missed anything,
but it holds the exact same amount of things.
One difference in the Lou Camera Bag and the Niki Baby,
this has one solo long strap.
There is no double strap capability.
Sorry, ugh. I feel like I'm lifting weights.
There's no double strap capability like the Niki Baby has.
You have to use it as either a shoulder bag or a Cross body.
There is no top handle. There's no, what else?
You could do it as a clutch.
Tuck your strap in if you wanted. Also,
the straps are not removable,
but the straps aren't removable on either bag.
The Lou Camera Cross body comes with this tassel.
The Nikki baby does not, even on the standard non patent,
leather finishes. It comes with the tassel.
The tassel is removable. So if you're not a tassel person,
don't worry. You can easily take it off, right?
Yes.
Can you take it off? Yes you can.
So what you can do, it's like a hack, unbuckle this
strap on the shoulder and then slide it off. Easy peasy.
Another bonus is that the strap is adjustable.
So if you want a shorter shoulder bag, you can make it such.
You can. If you want it longer, you can do that as well.
On the Niki Baby, the strap is not adjustable,
but as you know,
I do have a hack for making the strap sorter
on Saint Laurent bags
There are these little hooks that you can find on Amazon.
I'll link them down below.
I show them in my Toy Loulou review.
You basically clip the hooks onto the interior of the bag
here, and that will shorten it for you.
And it hides inside your bag, you put the flap over it.
You'll never know it's there.
You can adjust basically both of them.
But remember this has a single strap,
this has single and double.
As far as width, this is how wide they both are.
That's when widens a bit more obviously, then this one.
Here are the bottoms and then,
the length. I knew I forgot something.
So the Lou Camera Cross body is slightly longer.
You barely could tell, oh, it might actually be the same.
Let me give you some dimensions. So the Lou Camera bag,
the dimensions in centimeters, I'll give you those first,
23 centimeters, by 16, by six. So this is 23.
This is 16. This is six across. In inches,
Nine inches across, six and a half tall, 2.3 across here.
The Niki Baby, 21 centimeters here, 16 centimeters tall,
7.5 centimeters here.
And then in inches, 8.2 across, 6.2 tall, and then 2.9 wide.
In summary, this is slightly longer.
I knew I wasn't tripping.
The Lou Camera Cross body is slightly longer,
this way. The Niki Baby is slightly wider.
I told y'all that. As far as height,
they're the exact same height. I mean,
literally you could barely even notice the difference.
So size wise,
they're basically the same, essentially.
Pros and cons of both. As mentioned,
this has less maintenance.
So if you're looking for a bag as you don't have to baby
that you can fit more stuff in there,
stretch it out without it messing up the leather,
getting wet and all of that. This is what you need.
It is slightly more expensive. That is a con.
It is actually $600 more.
But when taking into consideration the maintenance and
everything, how little it requires,
it's worth the $600 in my opinion.
Another pro, I guess, for both of them,
they both come in different sizes.
This comes in a larger size. This is the smallest.
So if you want something smaller,
that could be a con, in this style.
This also comes in the baby version,
the Lou Baby or something like that.
They have different sizes for this as well.
A con of this one, aside from the patent leather,
because they traditionally come in the regular leather or in
the quilted leather,
it requires more maintenance for scratches and stuff,
and for weather and all of that.
You're going to need to take better care of it than you do
this. I mean, yes, you need to take care of this one too,
but I'm saying it requires a little more attention,
but it's still not over the top. Believe me,
I don't do the extra stuff when it comes to my bags.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I just don't have the patience. I mean, I do.
I do, now. Just know that
this is going to require a little more babying.
Another con, you have one strap option.
There is no double strap. So you can't wear it super short.
I mean, at some point,
these holes in the belt loop does stop.
Unless. OK stop focusing on me.
At some point, these holes do stop,
unless you were to add additional
holes, but then this would look crazy.
Cause this strap will come way down here,
and you would have that problem.
So if, you can't wear super short basically.
The Niki Baby with those little strap hooks,
I mentioned to you,
you can actually shorten this short enough to do
this top handle. If you wanted.
Let's pretend that it has hooks on it.
If I were to have hooks on here,
you could make this short enough to do it top handle.
If you want to wear it that way. So that's another plus.
Look at that. All in all,
they're both very good bags, they're very nice,
they're high quality, they're affordable.
They're bags out that are three grands in height, hello,
Louis Vuitton, Chanel, et cetera.
These, This is just over $2,000. This is under $2,000.
So another pro, this is cheaper.
But if you wanted me to tell you which one,
if you had to chose and a buzzer was an option,
I will go for Niki Baby.
I just would. I just love it.
Okay. This is one.
It might even be a favorite Saint Laurent bag.
It's one of my favorite bags in my collection.
So I'm a bit biased. It comes in several different colors.
This Niki Baby tends to come in more wearable colors.
Yes, it comes in things like green, blue,
but they're darker, They're not vibrant like this.
Here's another pro I thought I was done with those, or con,
it depends on how you see it. Some people only like neutral.
Some people like brighter colors and the Lou Camera comes in
neutrals and brights. So there's your other bonuses,
but I would get this. If you have more of a budget,
you're trying to stick to a budget and you want to put $800
somewhere else.
Did I calculate that, right?
Get this one cause it's cheaper.
I hope that answered your guys' questions.
Hope that was helpful.
I love both of them at the end of the day, but again,
this will be my choice.
Let me know if you have any other questions down below about
these. I'd be happy to answer them for you.
And I'll have another video to the right of me, in case you
missed it. Talk to you in the next one.
Thanks for watching.