French Designer Sells 237 Peso Maya Handbags for a Whopping 28,000 Each Sabrina Rodriguez - Riviera Maya News
go to original July 10, 2017

Famous French designer, Christian Louboutin, takes 2,000 Mayan bags to Italy where they are sold for an average of 28,000 pesos each.

The French designer, who is famous for his red-soled ladies shoes, hired four Maya women to hand-embroider 2,000 woman’s bags to be sold at a show in Italy. The five-month project was accepted by a handful of Maya women in the municipality of Santo Domingo, Maxcanú, located south of the state.

Late last year, the women contacted Louboutin through the Maya World Haciendas Foundation and the Taller Maya Trader, who came to visit them in December to see their work. Impressed, he hired them to embroider handbags.

The women, who had no idea how much the bags would be sold for, charged the designer 237 peso per bag for their handiwork. According to the women, each one got around 7,000 pesos during the five months of work that they had to embroider.

... María Deysi Balam Cauich, 54, one of the four embroideries said, “It is good that they sold well. The work was a blessing and we were able to make good money that we had not seen in a long time.”

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