Hooked: Goldfish Bags
Leave it to a Japanese artist and his one-man atelier, Iwakiri , to meticulously hand-craft jumbo goldfish as handbags. The verisimilitude is uncanny, down to the individually stitched leather scales. And while goldfish are the best-seller, he creates a variety of animal bags, including turtles, frogs, and other slick-skinned critters.
Apparently each bag takes countless hours to complete. It shows in the price — ¥118,800 (or roughly $1055) for these large versions, slightly less for slightly smaller.
