His pieces are in the permanent

His pieces are in the permanent collections of several museums in the first place, as the Victoria & Albert in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. And they are highly valued in the market era, with most collectibles sales of $ 3000 or more.

One of the biggest collectors are even Leiber. It sold to retirement in 1998, but has worked since then to buy his own style of fill Judith Leiber Museum in East Hampton, New York. (It has about 900 bags.)

Wednesday event, has brought many of his favorites, like a patchwork leather bags, inspired by Mondrian and Braque, and a bunch of asparagus Minaudo, who is Judith Leiber store on Rodeo Drive to the end of the month.

PHOTOS: Vintage Judith Leiber handbags

The piece that has eluded Leiber in the secondary chanel handbag authenticity is the Hollywood Stock Exchange. "It's a black box of pearls and rhinestones and sign the stars of Hollywood," Leiber said before the talk. "A friend of my friend has one and told him when she dies, she goes to the museum."

Leiber said to him, the most popular model was the first, Chatelaine, showing the bag chain. "It was the first time I made a bag with the metal, and the bottom was so badly stained, I'd be covered with rhinestones. Ed began his career with rhinestones."

Today the company continues the tradition Leiber, the production of replica chanel handbags of satin and leather, with and without glasses, belts and jewelry and sunglasses. A bag of lamp designs fall as a genius. bags and boxes frames are still made in Italy from wax molds. Then, each piece is hand painted with a colorful design, with matching color crystals established a jewelry factory in Thailand, almost like painting by numbers. The only difference? Now, most of them are large enough to hold a phone or a Blackberry.