Celeb News: Gaga Buys Taylor A Backpack Worth £37,000!

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Back in December we brought you the news that the Olsen twins had teamed up with Damien Hirst to design a bag worth a stonking £34,000. We had just one question - who would spend that much on a bag covered in pills? Well now seven months later we have the answer - Lady Gaga.

Mother monster bought a The Row bag covered in Hirst's famous spots for her boyfriend Taylor Kinney for his 32nd birthday. A source told The Sun: 'Taylor loves his backpacks so she wanted to get him a real one-of-a-kind - only 12 have been made.' In a previous interview Taylor has talked about his love of bags as he said 'I don't have lavish taste. Where would I put my stuff? My backpack is only so big. If someone who loves me wants to get me something fancy they get me a really nice backpack.'

He added 'I'll have that for a while, until I lose it or it gets stolen.' Taylor you can't lose this backpack - it's worth more than most of our annual salaries!

Those Olsen twins have a bit of a rep for steep prices, but when Mary Kate and Ashley brought out their $39,000 alligator skin backpack we thought it would be the most expensive handbag ever. How wrong we were. Now the designing duo have splattered their classic backpack with prescription pills and notched the price up to an eye-watering $55,000 - that's about £34,000 at today's exchange rate. Yikes. But wait, these aren’t just any old pills, THIS is the work of artist Damien Hirst.

The backpack is one of 12 being sold on behalf of Just One Eye, with designs including Mr Hirst's signature coloured spots as well as large gold polka dots. £34K for a handbag may be breathtaking, but let's not forget the artist's work can fetch up to £3 million, so you could argue this is an affordable piece of modern art, or something. What's more, each backpack is signed by Damien and a portion of the money will go to UNICEF, although the amount is at the artist's discretion. Just One Eye co-founder Paola Russo said: "We are longtime admirers of both Damien and The Row's work. Our main focus here is to nurture work between artists working in different mediums. We couldn't have dreamed of a better way to debut this series of partnerships."

So who will buy these super pricey backpacks? Ashley Olsen told WWD that the snazzy backpack was "the first thing that sold off the shelf". Really? She, for one, thinks that people will invest in luxury during an economic crisis. "During our last economic crisis in the U.S., the only thing that went up was Hermès," she explained.

Of course, art and fashion collabs have always been huge. Think Rob Pruitt and Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama and Christian Dior and Anselm Reyle to name but a few. And this isn't the first time that Damien Hirst has branched out for a fashion collab - back in 2008, he created a 40-piece capsule collection with Levis called Warhol Factory X Levi's Damien Hirst. And guess who was sat in the FROW for the Levi's Damien Hirst show during New York Fashion Week? Yep, you guessed it, Mary Kate Olsen. Perhaps the teeny twin was already plotting her own collaboration with the artist?

In case you have a spare thirty-four thousand pounds lying around, the bags go for sale this month on Just One Eye. Get them on your Christmas list pronto.

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The Queen is so generous

Allie

Milk her for everything she's worth, Taylor!

Ascension

This immediately started playing in my head. He must be puttin' it down.

Pie-kun

Meh, The Sun though. I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't true.

I think that backpack is ugly though.

Swag

The backpack looks like Gaga's taste

That money would be better off with people that need it

alfonso12

Luckiest guy on earth tbh.

PhreshIn

Why would she spend 37k on something so ugly

I'm talking about the bag.

J a y

Ugly.

QueenBeé

Eww @ the bag.

Genocide

I like it, tbh.

Haunted.

Its so ugly though.

BadMonster

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Originally posted by Swag

The backpack looks like Gaga's taste

That money would be better off with people that need it

She agrees, which is why she's one of the most charitable celebrities on the planet, she does a lot of relief funds and has her own foundation that helps people for free

She doesn't need to give everything away, most celebrities don't give away half of what she does

That backpack is way too feminine for guys, even though I like it

Frozen99

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Originally posted by PhreshIn

Why would she spend 37k on something so ugly

I'm talking about the bag.

Lil Misty

That's ****in' ugly lmao

ShineOverShadow

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Originally posted by BadMonster

She agrees, which is why she's one of the most charitable celebrities on the planet, she does a lot of relief funds and has her own foundation that helps people for free

She doesn't need to give everything away, most celebrities don't give away half of what she does

!!!

Alpha

I wouldn't want this one for free

Dancehall

I swear to god if her fans start hot glue gunning pills to backpacks now..

Pelvic Thrust

I think the bag looks rally cute.

Alpha

Oh wait The Sun nvm

jinzo

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Originally posted by Swag

The backpack looks like Gaga's taste

That money would be better off with people that need it

True.

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Madonna has bought her daughter an apartment in New York for her 16th birthday.

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Beyonce reportedly sent Kim Kardashian an extravagant crystal-studded highchair that cost a cool £9,000.

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Rihanna Buys Chris Brown $1 Million Mercedes SLR Stirling Moss

There should be a foundation set up for popstars to give away money like this.

Oh...wait.