The Ultimate International Price Guide: The Chanel Classic Flap Bag

With updated pricing information as of April 2020

By Amanda Mull • Apr 14, 2020

Editors Note: This price guide was originally published in 2015, and is one of the most visited posts on our site. Today we’ve updated it to reflect the most up to date pricing information available.

Although plenty of information factors into the purchase of any particular bag, there’s one fact that likely holds more sway than others for almost all shoppers: price. In our Ultimate Bag Guides, we give you a look at how popular bag designs are priced by size, but that information was always limited to the American market and US dollars—until now. We’re in the midst of building an easier way for consumers to compare prices in different markets around the world, but we wanted to go ahead and get the ball rolling with a price guide for one of the most iconic bags in the world: the Chanel Classic Flap Bag.

If you’re looking for information on dimensions, size names, leathers or hardware, the Classic Flap’s Ultimate Bag Guide is the place to look; as a supplement to that, we’ve created an international price guide for eight prominent global fashion markets, which you can find below. Because Chanel Classic Flap Bag prices can be hard to find, we’ve done our best to find the most accurate pricing information for each size, in each market. If you have a more up-to-date price for one of the sizes listed, please let us know.

All prices listed below are for the Classic Flap in its three most common materials: lambskin, caviar or patent leather. Prices for each country are listed in local currency. Happy shopping.

Chanel Mini Flap Prices
Last Updated: April 2020

Country	Extra Mini	Regular Mini	Square Mini
USA	n/a (last updated 2018 now discontinued)	$3500	$3200
Canada	$2700 (last updated 2018 now discontinued)	$4250	$3725
UK	£1405 (last updated 2018 now discontinued)	£2730	£2400
France	€1600 (last updated 2018 now discontinued)	€3050	€2680
China	¥15800 (last updated 2018 now discontinued)	¥25200	¥22100
Japan	¥302400 (last updated 2018 now discontinued)	¥394900	¥346500
Singapore	$3130 (last updated 2018 now discontinued)	$4900	$4310
Australia	$2950 (last updated 2018 now discontinued)	$5190	$4560

Extra Mini

Rectangular Mini

Square Mini

Chanel Classic Flap Prices
Last Updated: April 2020

Country	Small	Medium	Jumbo	Maxi
USA	$5200	$5800	$6400	$6900
Canada	$6350	$7175	$7950	$8650
UK	£4080	£4620	£5110	£5560
France	€4550	€5150	€5700	€6200
China	¥37600	¥4260	¥47100	¥51200
Japan	¥585200	¥660000	¥735900	¥798600
Singapore	$7310	$8270	$9160	$9960
Australia	$7740	$8760	$9700	$10550

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Medium

Jumbo

Maxi

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sofie2385

7 years ago

Looks like we won’t have as many Asians coming to the US to buy Chanel. After converting currency, the prices are nearly the same.

Joshua

7 years ago

I was curious about exchange rates and I was surprised to find that when exchanged to US$, the prices are much lower than the US price for all the countries listed except for Australia! For the jumbo, CA $6650 is about US $5000!

Reina77

7 years ago

Why is there such a huge price difference between the mini and the small?

Casey

7 years ago

Reply to Reina77

I know that mini is single flap and small is double flap, but realistically, I think it’s because small and medium are more popular so they experienced higher price increases over the years. That’s my best educated guess.

GoFashiondeals

7 years ago

That is pretty cool to see how much the bags are according to different currency

Tank Diaz

7 years ago

Thanks for this, I have been trying to find prices to see where I should buy my maxi and it seems after all the conversions and taxes that for the sake of $100 I’ll buy it at home, thanks again, brilliant

Katrina

3 years ago

Reply to Tank Diaz

In Europe will get good 17% refund in taxes
On average $600 less in Europe for sure

TMA

7 years ago

Reply to Tank Diaz

Yes, but remember that when you buy in euros you get the VAT(taxes) back in the airport so it actually makes it much cheaper to buy in Europe with the current exchange rate. You can basically buy your ticket to whatever country you want AND buy the bag for the same as the USD price.

Tank Diaz

7 years ago

Reply to TMA

TMA, this is great advice, unfortunately for me I’m an EU resident, so no VAT refund, but I wouldn’t mind being a US citizen so I could have a new maxi and a holiday for the same price… great recommendations

Loredana Constantin

3 years ago

Reply to Tank Diaz

I’m also an eu resident and dreaming about my firs chanel one day. where do you find it to be the most affordable place to buy it?

Pamela

7 years ago

Reply to Tank Diaz

lol good luck with us citizship haha. not too hard..

confessionsofashopper

7 years ago

I think Canadian prices recently went up to $6850! =(

7 years ago

Reply to confessionsofashopper

Yes, glad I got my small in USD when our dollar was high. Now want a medium and doing the math whether to buy pre-loved or new. With our low dollar plus tax some of the pre-loved work out more expensive than new locally!!!!

7 years ago

Reply to JC

Thank you. Have bought from Fashionphile and Yoogi’s Closet and also Malleries (check every day). Will give Portero a go.

Marta

7 years ago

BUT that means you have to get a place to stay, eat, drink and enjoy Paris since you’re already there. Now therein lies the problem… Haha…

Sparky

7 years ago

Reply to Marta

Absolutely but if you’re like me taking multiple connecting flights, it might be worth it to plan the flights so you pass through one of these cities and take a 2 night break. Tax refund in Europe can be 10% – 13%. If you combine your designer purchases (shoes + bags) on a single trip the savings add up. I checked and YSL shoes can be $300 less PER PAIR! Your savings offset the hotel plus you’ll have a wider selection. Two days ago the Euro was only 1.06 to the dollar.

I wouldn’t fly to Paris just to buy one bag.
Well, come to think of it… I would if I could afford it! How fun!!

Violet

7 years ago

I’ve been to Singapore, Hong Kong and Taipei recently (on business) and I’m telling you, Chanel boutiques don’t have any of these classic flaps in stock!! They only have the seasonal flaps (one of each, usually). I almost bought a medium iridescent flap bag but opted to “stick to the mission” and continue my search for a medium black caviar classic double flap with gold hardware!! It’s a challenge to find it! It’s gotten to the point that if I actually see one in stock in a Chanel boutique, the price would not matter!

(By the way, this info might be pertinent: I just picked up a beige GST in Taipei last week. The Chanel boutique had beige and black in stock. New arrival they said. I asked if its true that they were discontinuing and the SAs did not hear anything. They said the classic flap was far more rare than the GST! They said that the classic flap barely came in this whole year! Hmm, interesting!)

Marty Pecciola

7 years ago

Reply to Violet

Always pretty easy to get in Paris.

Amanda

7 years ago

Reply to Violet

Call Asia at the Boston boutique. She found me one in one week!

Vivi

7 years ago

Reply to Violet

I live in Paris and my SA keeps me informed whenever one of my wished bags arrives…
I know they have classic flap in store stock even in caviar …! But they usually tell tourists that they don’t have any so they would buy other seasonal bags knowing that they will buy at least one bag anyway after such long flight there …

Shop Around Tours

7 years ago

Reply to Violet

My classic flap was purchased at the Chanel store in Rome, near the Spanish Steps. Walked right in and got exactly what I wanted, black lambskin with silver hardware. Didn’t seem to be any big deal and clearly wasn’t sold out – maybe I just got lucky.

Sofia

7 years ago

Reply to Shop Around Tours

Ahhh! I am visiting Rome soon and staying right down the street from that boutique. Was the price in Rome comparable to the Paris prices listed in the article?

Pamela

7 years ago

Reply to Violet

come to nyc! the list is a bit long though… my sister got her large classic in 4-5 months at chanel in bloomingdales.

Eugenia

7 years ago

Reply to Violet

I get what you mean. I am a Singaporean, and I got mine in London, because it was sold out when I was in Venice and Amsterdam. Both salesperson told me that it was sold out in Europe in Oct 2015.

Sparky

7 years ago

CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH!
I plan on buying my first Chanel and was searching for global prices.

Passerine

7 years ago

This is really helpful, thanks! I’m planning to get a Jumbo in black caviar this spring, so fingers crossed I can find one! I will first try the store in Zurich, but will look elsewhere if needed. Or, if they have a list, I’m willing to wait. It’s a classic bag, so if I have to wait several months or a year, it will be still be in style.