Chanel’s Must-Have Summer Accessory

Posted by: Catherine Strawn Filed in: style
4:30PM, Wednesday June 11th 2008

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Depending on your values, you might think spending more than $1,000 on a handbag is ludicrous. Or you might think a quilted Chanel bag is an investment. If you fall into the latter category, how would you feel about an $18,000 fly-fishing rod? Chanel is offering such a rod, along with a set of monochrome Chanel flies (complete with the double “C” logo on gossamer wings and a quilted black leather box). At first I thought, Coco Chanel must be turning over in her grave! but The Guardian reports that she was a tomboy who fished while dating the Duke of Westminster in the ‘20s. Keep reading to see what else you could buy with $18,000.

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Tags: chanel, fly fishing, fishing, fishing rod

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LovesIt
wrote on June 12 2008 @ 06:55 am: [report]

I wonder if it’s even any good. You could buy yourself, like, 18 top-of-the-line Orvis fly fishing rods for $18k AND take a bunch of friends with you on the trip.

Who is the target market on this? Trophy wives who are losing their husbands to the rivers of Montana??