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Top 10 luxury Christmas gifts for your most decadent friends – US$7,650 Hermès wastebasket or miniature bathtub with 8,600 Swarovski crystals, anyone?
- Slap a designer name on the most ordinary objects, and they’ll positively drip with extravagance. So how about it?
- A Saint Laurent condom is a bargain at US$2; at the other end of the scale, Tiffany’s sterling silver and 24-carat gold chess set costs a cool US$75,000
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Toothbrushes, dog collars, rubbish bins, and fire extinguishers are all standard products that ultimately have no indulgent or elaborate qualities.
But if you plate them in gold? Or slap a designer name on them? They'll positively drip with extravagance; they'll become luxury items.
With the holiday season quickly approaching, we rounded up a few over-the-top luxury items that are currently on the market, including a US$920 Louis Vuitton keychain and a US$7,650 Hermès wastebasket, among other ordinary-yet-fancified objects.
Note that this list is only a small sampling of the exhaustive luxury market. It’s organised in ascending order of price.

10. A single Saint Laurent-branded condom is selling for just over US$2.
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