[Ezekiel]

Eastwood and Shields - known for his work with video portraits and celebrity photography - decided to publicly demolish a $100,000 crocodile Hermès Birkin bag by setting it on fire before taking a chainsaw to it, all in the name of art.

It's all fun and games until someone wrecks a handbag.

All this righteous indignation over the destruction of a $100k bag, but not a raised eyebrow over a *$100k* bag. Looks like the bag-burners are the ones who had a better idea of the true value and use for the idol er bag, although they surely could have picked up its twin at a flea market for $10... :-)

[Mycroft Holmes]

I’d be willing to bet a week’s pay that they probably did pick up a $10 knockoff at the flea market for this little project. It’s only video, after all. And the evidence is destroyed by the process. No harm, no foul.