If you’re not familiar the Marjorie Harvey, it’s time to get acquainted. She’s wife to comedian, talk show host, suit purveyor and jack-of-all-trades Steve Harvey, and she’s also a fixture at Paris Fashion Week. She made it to the front rows the good ol’ fashion way: not by being a 22-year-old Instagram star or French actress, but by being a VIP client at the city’s biggest, most important fashion houses. There are a handful of other street style stars who have come to prominence this way, like Elena Perminova and Ulyana Sergeenko, but because Marjorie takes a particular interest in mind-blowing handbags, we of course take a particular interest in her.
Were I going to attend Paris Fashion Week, I’d want to do it like Marjorie does: she’s not there to work for a magazine, promote her latest movie or create branded content for her social media feeds. Instead, she’s there to wear crazy clothes, carry the rarest handbags in her collection and otherwise have fun. Honestly, it seems ideal.
Also ideal is Marjorie’s handbag closet, we’d imagine. Her collection surely goes far beyond the bags in the paparazzi photos we were able to find below, most of which are from fashion shows, but they do give you a representative sample of just how incredible hr collection. Take a look at all the gorgeous bags below and our tally of their full value at the end.
[A note on methodology: When known, we’ve used a bag’s original retail price. When unknown or when the bag’s market value far exceeds what it may have been purchased for at original retail, we’ve used priced sourced from respected auction houses and handbag brokers.]
Chanel Alligator WOC Bag
Similar Bag Sold for $8,365 via Heritage Auctions
Marjorie and Steve were vacationing in Portofino in this photo so, you know: a little, casual Chanel exotic.
Chanel Alligator Tote
Similar Bag Sold for $11,950 via Heritage Auctions
The actual retail of this bag was probably significantly higher than this comparable resale price, but we couldn’t find the MSRP data and Chanel exotics hold their value far better in fan favorites like the Classic Flap or Boy Bag than in seasonal styles like this one. I doubt Marjorie plans to resell, though.
Chanel Camera Minaudiere
$13,000 via Chanel
This is a brand new runway piece, but even so, I’m betting it’s all sold out.
Dior Alligator Bubble Bag
$28,500 via Dior
As far as I can tell, this piece was seasonal and Dior isn’t still making it, but the price above was its US price when new.
Dior Lady Dior Crocodile Bag
Similar Bag is $21,744 via Vestiaire Collective
For how long exotic Lady Dior bags have been in production, their listed prices are surprisingly difficult to come by. There’s a healthy resale market, though, so we’re going to use those prices for Marjorie’s three Lady Diors.
Dior Lady Dior Crocodile Bag
Similar Bag is $25,000 via Vestiaire Collective
Marjorie always looks like she’s having a good time and, ya know, I guess we all would in her situation.
Dior Lady Dior Crocodile Bag
Similar Bag is $25,000 via Vestiaire Collective
As far as I know, the hardware on this bag is crystal-encrusted instead of diamond-encrusted, but I wouldn’t be altogether shocked to find out I’m wrong.
Hermès Crocodile Birkin with Pavé Diamond Hardware
$175,000, estimated
This bag is tricky to estimate. Heritage Auctions sold an almost identical bag for about $79,000, but that was in 2014, and bags in this color with diamond hardware have shot up remarkably in value since then. I chose a midpoint between that 2014 price and the current record prices for similar bags, which are at about $300,000.
Hermès Constance Crocodile Bag
Similar Bag Sold for $18,750 via Heritage Auctions
We’re not here to count clothes, but I bet her vest also cost a pretty penny.
Hermès Himalayan Crocodile Birkin Bag
$110,000 via Portero
Hermès Himalayan Crocodile Kelly Bag
$126,950 via 1stDibs
We weren’t able to license a photo of Marjorie’s Himalayan Kelly from our photo service, but trust us, she has it along with both the little Birkin and the big one below.
Hermès Himalayan Crocodile Birkin Bag with Pavé Diamond Hardware
Similar Bag $450,000 via JaneFinds
Folks, this is a wild card. With bags of this rarity, sellers with a large enough clientele can more or less name their price. All designer prices are divorced from a piece’s material value to a certain extent, but with this bag in particular, there’s no telling how much someone might be willing to spend in order to have it. It’s the only one I was able to locate that’s currently available, and I couldn’t find any online records of sales at lower prices in the last year. The sky is the limit for this piece.
Hermès Kelly Cut Crocodile Clutch
The Same Bag Sold for $27,500 at Heritage Auctions
A couple PFWs ago, Marjorie showed up to like three different shows in a row with different exotic Kelly Cut clutches. It was a flex if I’ve ever seen one.
Hermès Kelly Cut Crocodile Clutch with Pavé Diamond Hardware
Similar Bag Without Diamonds Sold for $23,750 via Heritage Auctions
I can’t find any evidence that Hermès sells Kelly Cuts with diamond hardware, and if it doesn’t, then Marjorie either had this bag embellished by her jeweler or she bought it from a broker and the previous owner had it personalized. Adding “after-market” diamonds to Hermès bags is not uncommon, but since there’s no available precedent for the sale price of this bag with diamond hardware, we’re just going to play it safe and use the diamond-free estimate.
Hermès Kelly Cut Crocodile Clutch
Similar Bag Sold for $23,750 via Heritage Auctions
I wish we had a straight-on shot of this bag, because exotics are so lovely in light colors.
Hermès So Black Alligator Kelly Bag
Similar Bag Sold for $110,000 via Portero
Based on my research, the alligator Kelly might be the most difficult-to-find bag of the already rare So Black collection. Very few of them have ever been resold online, unlike the alligator Birkins, which you see pop up more commonly.
Louis Vuitton City Trunk Bag
$6,600 via Louis Vuitton
This isn’t an exotic, but it’s a runway piece that requires shoppers to call the brand and ask nicely in order to buy one, so it seemed worth including.
Louis Vuitton Crocodile Twist Bag
$18,400 via Louis Vuitton
This exact version of the Twist with corner patches is no longer made, but we’re going to use the price for the sleeker current model in the same size.
Louis Vuitton Louis Vuitton Deesse PM Crocodile Bag
$23,500 via Louis Vuitton
As you might have noticed in the photos so far, Marjorie isn’t just fond of exotic handbags–she also has a major thing for Dior sunglasses, like the ones in this photo.
Valentino Crocodile VaVaVoom Bag
$4,510 via Valentino
This bag has been discontinued, but that was the last MSRP for a crocodile VaVaVoom we could find.
Grand Total: $1,252,269
We’re sure she’s got a great insurance policy. Or, at least we hope she does.
