Ahhh, the Bottega Veneta Cabat. We have already gone over the meticulous process the craftsman undergo to create this magnificent handbag. To refresh your memory, the classic Cabat is woven by hand by two craftsman which takes them two days. Then an additional day is needed for finishing touches; like stitching, applying the handles, and finishing the edges. Before this entire creation, the leather itself is treated, prepared, and cut. The result is one of the staples of the house of Bottega Veneta and one of the most simple yet coveted bags.
For Spring 2011, the Bottega Veneta Cigar Cocco Lave Large Cabat will be released. This bag is the ultimate Cabat and my current weekend obsession.
I love the brown/black color on the crocodile skin. It gives the perfect amount of life to the bag, which is already a stand out because of the weaving technique. Before I get into the price with you – I must mention to keep in mind the size of this bag. This is the large size, which is entirely spacious (think weekend getaway size). This bag may be my weekend obsession, but it also is out of my price range. I am entirely jealous of whoever will be buying and using this bag. It will outlast us all. Buy via Bottega Veneta for $80,350.
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Wow, *love*! This bag is gorgeous. I love the color, a beautiful brown/bronze. And the construction looks exquisite. You can tell it’s quality made. But omg, the price. I wonder if they’ll make a smaller size. (ipad)
Absolutely stunning. It would hold my most precious belongings! Maybe even an (iPad)??? 😀 amazing piece!
Wow, I would be scared to use this purse, there is so much time and work put into making it! (ipad)
I love the color of this bag! it is gorgeous! (ipad)
Beautiful bag! Would definitely fit an iPad. 😉 (ipad)
OMG! Gorgeous! (ipad).
omg, 80,000! oh yeah, & 350 more dollars. wow, that’s a LOT. like i understand an exotic skinned bag in the 5 digits, but 80,000? i seriously envy the people who can afford to buy this bag.
this is the last day (ipad)
never the less, this bag is great (ipad)
its just perfect for me (ipad)
Love the deep color on this-if I could carry a 60lb lapdog in it, it would be perfect. iPad.
they call me the big bag lady (ipad)
i could fit my whole life in this bag (ipad)
great color (ipad)
can work as a neutral (ipad)
I LOVE IT (ipad)
🙂 (ipad)
GORGEOUS (ipad)
I love Bottega, and I love crocodile, but I feel that the traditional Bottega weave does not do justice to the beauty of crocodile skin texture because the weave is to small to show it off (ipad)
love this bottega! (ipad)
Love it!!! (ipad)
wooo..hooo super like (IPAD)
this purse is gorgeous (ipad)
This just doesn’t do it for me. I understand the craftsman ship but the price is absurd. ipad
The detail on this bag is lovely! (iPad)
WOW, gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. (ipad)
what a beautiful bag (ipad)
I agree with Shell, I love and finds it quite wonderful all of the hardwork it takes to make this bag but I really don’t like it… (ipad)
I really, really, really love the handles! (ipad)
I find the handles to be gorgeous as well!
Pretttyy! Love it! (iPad)
Eh, I could take it or leave it.
The moment I saw the picture I thought, “Oh my goodness, is that croc?”. The Cabat has always been my ultimate dream bag, and I think this is the ultimate version of it. But that price, goodness me. That could feed a small country!
Now excuse me while I shed a few tears over the fact that I will never even lay eyes on this beauty.
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I have this exact style made of woven buri palm leaves. Looking like that’s all I’m going to afford 🙂 This one’s a beauty!!
The name is a mouthful, the bag itself is Gorg! But the price,holy mother of handbags! That is more than some people make in a year! I drool, but I’ll have to pass (ipad)
Drop dead gorgeous! (ipad)
That is beautiful! (iPad)
Wow! would love to see this bag!! The Price…oy!(ipad)
Exquisite! If only we didn’t have those two pesky college tuitions to think of. . . (ipad)
In my alternate universe, where money is no object, I’m already on the waiting list for this glorious bag. Sigh. (iPad)
LOL Meredith. Can I live in your alternate universe too? and then I’ll take two.
OMG, this is the ultimate bag! So beautiful! Way out of my price range though. But the process to make it would be expensive, but it costs more than my car? Wow! (iPad)
Beautiful bag. Love the color, easy to wear. (iPad)
OMG I think this bag is just absolutely gorgeous! (ipad)
Sorry, not a fan at all! The beauty and the value of exotic skin is in its texture. Here the precious crocodile skin is unnecessarily wasted and shredded into pieces to create a weave. Unless, they used leftovers, which raises a question of the price validity. For this huge sum of money, I would rather buy a large Hermes Birkin or Kelly made of the whole, central belly skins of precious Crocodile Porosus. Nothing can be compared with the timeless Hermes creations! But it’s just me. (ipad)
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OMG love! (ipad)
Nice looking bag but holy cow on the price! (ipad)
Stunning! (ipad)
holly macaroni…even after selling all my bags collection,I don’t think I would have 80K…it’s a nice looking bag..I’ll just be dreaming about it though (ipad)
beautiful (ipad)
This is insanely beautiful and luxurious. I think that it is actually good that the price is so far out of range. (ipad)
Best bag ever. Love it. (ipad)
i misread the price as 8000 and mentally started a saving plan …. till i noticed an extra zero …… ah! no point even going there (ipad)
Drooling. (Ipad)
I love this bag! Very chic and totally usable. Too bad the price is so up there. (ipad)
ohhh, mama! now where i put that winning lottery ticket??? (ipad)
Price is outrageous, but ridiculously gorgeous! (ipad)
OMG the price. Lovely bag–but wow! (ipad)
WOW. okay, that is a BEAUTIFUL bag, but at that price, its definitely never going to come home with me. sigh. (ipad)
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh gorgeous! (ipad)
pretty but WAY too expensive for what you get (ipad)
Stunning!!!! But oh, the price!!! (ipad)
love it!!! (ipad)
lovely but price is too much (ipad)
the color is gorgeous (ipad)
the price is outrageous (ipad)
Breathtakingly beautiful. The cabats get more gorgeous each season but the price is not something I could ever justify even if I could afford it. (iPad)
look like a bag to use to to to the market (ipad)
I agree with Shari as well! even if this was bag I could afford I wouldn’t want it. There are so many other beautiful and less expensive bags that would be on my wanted list. (ipad)
lol @ swati!! (ipad)
looks very summer-y (ipad)
Gorgeous leather and craftsmanship. Style of bag – not for me. Price – can’t even think of a snappy comment other than NO. (ipad)
EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A friggin PURSE???!!!!!!!! Is SOMEONE JOKING?????
I’m on the WRONG PLANET!!!
it IS Beautiful and I would love to even look at it, but c’mon – that’s worth more than my entire house!
I think I need this Ipad more than anyone now! (ipad)
Are you kidding me!!! (ipad)
This is gorgeous! But that price tag is SERIOUSLY laughable. (ipad)
OH my goodness. How is it possible that it costs so much money? I could only use this as luggage, I don’t buy designer luggage, sure as heck wouldn’t buy over 80,000 worth of crocodile skin to carry clean undies in. (ipad)
wow with that price…one could get a fine looking luxury car (ipad)
they sell similar looking hand woven, well crafted pieces in the philippines for a much lower price! (ipad)
but then again this is a Bottega Veneta 🙂 (ipad)
wow, 80 THOUSAND DOLLARS for a purse???? I’d rather spend it on a downpayment for a house… LoL (ipad)
you must really be joking with this price i would buy a house
love it!!! (ipad)
sorry but for real People this is pretty but hello be realistic unless you are rich this bag could be your home car buisness college education etc. great for the millionaires
80 g’s???? Nice bag but I’d be scared to use the darn thing! wowsa
i love the way u writers tell most positive things about a bag in reviewed, and put the price thingy at the very bottom last of the story..
it’s gives us readers time to imagine the blue skies and butterflies, and beautiful beaches before slamming us hard to the ground, bam! (ipad)
This bag makes me dizzy its so gorgeous!
Does it really worth the price? Definitely not my cup of tea.
love the style but would never pay over 80 000 usd for a bag (ipad)
Wow! That is one expensive bag! (ipad)
Yowza! Beautiful bag but the price is ridiculous! (ipad)
something I can only dream of…
Its as beautiful as the price is outrageous (ipad)
such glossy leather! beautiful (ipad)
Oh this is pretty! (ipad)
i absolutely agree with the remarks to this bv bag as being one of the most gorgeous bag ever made, and i as well agree with the price 80k. this gives an absolute exclusivity for the richest of at least millionaires. there should be some luxury bags that which other people (who are not real millionaires) can only see, but not for them to have. with you having this bag, you will by no doubt be the talk of the town. and for the richest, this can be considered as an heirloom. well i myself can’t have this much cash to burn for a luxury bag, but love to see others having it and flaunt it.
if only money is no problem. this is so damn pretty. URGH.
YUM! If I win the Powerball…ah well, it’s good to have a dream! 🙂
Fabulous bag, terrible price (ipad)
Fabulous! (ipad)
love the bag, but I can’t live in it or drive it, so it’s worthless …. (ipad)
It’s so Filipino:) (ipad)
LOL @ $80,350. I love it and all, but it can stay on display for with that price. lol. (ipad)
The prica is too much expensive and i thinkt hat Bottega Veneta is purposing price exagerating for their products. however, this kind of lavoration and new “appearance” realized with c4roc si cool!
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This bag is gorgeous! Sadly, I’d have to be able to drive it to own it. (ipad)
It looks nice, but also just look like the $10 bag I got from Target.
U’re about to make me go to Target!!!! LOL (ipad)
It looks nice, but also just look like the $10 bag I got from Target. (iPad)
I don’t think weaving croc skin is a good idea!
well the price is the obvious barrier here – but it is a beautiful bag! The leather has such depth and dimension, it really adds to the weave instead of taking away from it. (ipad)
One of the best bags yet!
The simplicity, the texture the colour, and the handles and no visible logo, so Veneta.
Love the company – great workmanship, definitely worth every penny (ipad)
LV the bag but HOW MUCH? That’s nuts and this is me talking.
I thought it was a typo at first. I guess not. I really want a Range Rover. So, I think that I would take a fully loaded vehicle over a handbag.
Did I just say that?
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really beautiful; at least the non croc ones are affordable! (ipad)
The price is ridiculous… here , where I live they sell pure crocodile skin bags for around 15 usd… I can’t imagine why the treatment of the leather, the craftmanship and the Bottega name should cost 79, 985 USD….. daylight robbery if you ask me!
Loooooovvvvvveeeeeeeeee it perfect simply perfect !!!!!!
This bag is gorgeous but it goes without saying that the price is ridiculous (ipad)
Brilliant design and color…..I`m sorry I can`t say the same thing about the numbers in the price tag, eighty thousand grand…that`s like wow 🙂
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You added an extra “0” between the 8 and the comma, right??? Not that I’ve never thought of buying a purse worth more than my car, (Hermes, I’m looking at you!), but WHAAAT!?! It is insanely gorgeous though. (ipad)
I love the bag but I don’t know about the color. Also the price is really prohibitive for me to covet one. (iPad).
I admire the craftmanship, but I don’t see the point of shredding crocodile skin. The beauty of an exotic material is the pattern of the scales, in my opinion, so distorting that pattern seems like a waste of crocodile.
Amen!
It’s gorgeous, both in design and colour.
But the price!!! (ipad)
OMG! What a lovely bag. i thought it must be crocodile and it is…I usually don’t care for brown bags much but this is the perfect black/brown. However, no way will it ever be mine, alas it is also out of my price range. I am brokenhearted. (Ipad)
I love the bag but $80,000+ for it? O.O…If the bags cost that much how much did they pay the 2 craftsmen/women who took 2 days to weave it together?
I forgot to add (ipad)
The bag is simply stunning, and I’m sure the quality has to rival that of a birkin. However, with a price like that I’d rather own eight birkins than one of these. (ipad)
I so love BV and plan to buy a Cabat in 2011; BUT, for $80K I can buy the new Lexus of my dreams. Probably too late to say it but I will: (ipad)
This is just the most gorgeous bag. I can’t imagine spending that much on a bag, though, even if I had that kind of money! (ipad)
AMAZING !!! but the price is just too much not worthy (ipad)
At $80K it should come with a steering wheel and an engine. Vrroooomm, vrroooomm! (ipad)
80 thousand dollars? Did I read that correctly?! HA! (ipad)
I love it! Especially the color. But the whats with the price? I mean, they make the bag with crocodile and leather but why is it $80,000?
wow… the price! You can buy a car with that! However I have to agree that this bag looks gorgeous(ipad)
I need to know how strong the cabat is.