How hypocritical that the news media of fashion-conscious New York City are the prime critics of Judith Giuliani’s apparel choices. The New York Daily News gave the dreaded “Down Arrow” to the wife of America’s mayor just because she gets a separate airplane seat for her Louis Vuitton handbag.
Vanity Fair reports that Sunny Mindel, communications director of Rudy’s Giuliani Partners, “spoke of the need for providing an entire plane seat for Judith’s ‘Baby Louis’—a reference to her Louis Vuitton handbag, which sits in solitary splendor on her travels.”
The New York Times not only criticizes the separate campaign airplane seat for her ‘Baby Louie Bag”, but “sharply” condemns her as “an imperious striver who shops extravagantly.” Hello, New York Times. Is anybody home there anymore in The Big Apple? Or have all the other “imperious” strivers and extravagant shoppers moved South?
Now let’s get real about Louis Vuitton handbags. If Mrs. Giuliani owned a genuine “Baby Louis” she would never dream of parking it upon a seat where have sat other less elegant seats. Every genuine Louis Vuitton handbag comes with its own carrying bag, just for such purposes as travel amongst the hoi polloi. See a picture from Wikipedia of a genuine Louis Vuitton handbag’s handbag. A genuine Louis Vuitton cannot risk having its rare and specially treated exotic leather exposed to public contaminants, such as non-Vuitton owners, and must be properly enclosed in its supplied carrying case. Otherwise, its warranty becomes null and void.
Considering that only 1% of all handbags bearing the distinctive Louis Vuitton trademark monogram are authentic (Wikipedia), what are the chances that Judith Giuliani’s bag is a genuine one? There is little chance; only one out of a hundred. If Judith Giuliani’s fashion choices are to be ridiculed, it should be because she chooses to sport a handbag that is so widely counterfeited and imitated that even her maid would be embarrassed to be seen carrying one.
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