Longchamp Le Pliage Long Handle - Pre Order

Worldwide success, Le Pliage by Longchamp is the daily companion of millions of women and men. Folded up, it knows how to make itself almost disappear. To create a total look, fans will be able to coordinate their bag with their ballerina flats or tongs!

Longchamp Le Pliage collection combines heavy nylon with tan grained leather trim in classically cool styles. A necessary basic, the totes and backpacks fold/unfold for extra use. Zipper tops and goldtone hardware. This style tote comes in 2 sizes: medium and large,and twelve colors.

Features:

• Handle drop 12" (over-the-shoulder style)
• Lightweight nylon with tanned leather handle and accents
• Zip top closure with leather snap
• Inside pocket

Le Pliage Long Handle - Large

Care Instructions: To remove dirt, clean the whole lining using a cloth or a soft brush, with water and neutral soap (avoid water spilling over leather parts when cleaning).

Available Sizes:

Medium Long Handle -  (25x25x14 cm10x10x5½ inch)

Ref:2605089

RM440 (Free Shipping)

Large Long Handle -  (31x30x19 cm12¼x12x7½ inch)

Ref:1899089

RM520 (Free Shipping)

To view some photos to properly guide you in visualizing the sizes of various Le Pliage styles when the bags are carried. Please refer to Size Guide..

Colors for you to choose:

                                                            Color : Black                                                      Color : White

                                                           Color : Taupe                                               Color : Chocolate 

                                                           Color : Curry                                               Color : Palm Green

                                                         Color : Fuchsia                                                 Color : Lagoon

                                                           Color : Red                                                          Color : Navy

                                                           Color : Beige                                                   Color : Graphite

To pre order Longchamp Le Pliage kindly email myluxurybags@hotmail.com.

For further information, please refer to How To Order, Term & Conditions apply.

Reference Handbags Size Guide

Longchamp Le Pliage Short Handle - Pre Order

Worldwide success, Le Pliage by Longchamp is the daily companion of millions of women and men. Folded up, it knows how to make itself almost disappear. To create a total look, fans will be able to coordinate their bag with their ballerina flats or tongs!


Longchamp Le Pliage collection combines heavy nylon with tan grained leather trim in classically cool styles. A necessary basic, the totes and backpacks fold/unfold for extra use. Zipper tops and goldtone hardware. This style tote comes in 4 sizes: small, medium, large, or extra large and twelve colors.


Features:

• Handle drop 4 inch
• Lightweight nylon with tanned leather handle and accents
• Zip top closure with leather snap
• Inside pocket

Le-Pliage Short Handle - Medium

Care Instructions: To remove dirt, clean the whole lining using a cloth or a soft brush, with water and neutral soap (avoid water spilling over leather parts when cleaning).

Available Sizes:

Small Short Handle -  (21x21x14 cm / 8¼x8¼x5½ inch)

Ref:1621089

RM350 (Free Shipping)

Medium Short Handle -  (30x28x20 cm / 12x11x8 inch)

Ref:1623089

RM410 (Free Shipping)

Large Short Handle -  (45x35x23 cm / 17¾x14x9 inch)

Ref:1624089

RM490 (Free Shipping)

XLarge Short Handle -  (55x40x23 cm / 21¾x15¾x9 inch)

Ref:1625089

RM550 (Free Shipping)

To view some photos to properly guide you in visualizing the sizes of various Le Pliage styles when the bags are carried. Please refer to Size Guide.

Colors for you to choose

                                                           Color : Black                                                      Color : White

                                                           Color : Taupe                                               Color : Chocolate

                                                           Color : Curry                                               Color : Palm Green

                                                         Color : Fuchsia                                                 Color : Lagoon

                                                           Color : Red                                                          Color : Navy

                                                           Color : Beige                                                   Color : Graphite

To pre order Longchamp Le Pliage kindly email myluxurybags@hotmail.com

For further information, please refer to How To Order, Term & Conditions apply.

Longchamp Le Pliage Size Guide

Longchamp Le Pliage Size Guide

Le Pliage	Model	W (cm)	H (cm)	D (cm)	HD (cm)	ZL (cm)
Small / Short	1621089	21	21	14	10	30
Small / Long	2605089	25	25	14	25	35
Medium / Short	1623089	30	28	20	10	44
Medium / Long	1899089	31	30	19	25	45
Large / Short	1624089	45	35	23	10	55
X-Large / Short	1625089	55	40	23	10	66
Open Tote	2704089	38	29	14	10	N/A

Here are some photos to properly guide you in visualizing the sizes of various Le Pliage styles when the bags are carried.



Le-Pliage Short Handle - Small (21x21x14 cm / 8¼x8¼x5½ inch)



Le-Pliage Short Handle - Medium (30x28x20 cm / 12x11x8 inch)



Le-Pliage Short Handle - Large (45x35x23 cm / 17¾x14x9 inch)



Le-Pliage Short Handle - XLarge (55x40x23 cm / 21¾x15¾x9 inch)



Le-Pliage Long Handle - Small (25x25x14 cm / 10x10x5½ inch)



Le-Pliage Long Handle - Medium (31x30x19 cm / 12¼x12x7½ inch).

Find Out Yourself Why Longchamp Le Pliage

Longchamp Le Pliage

Thirteen years after it was introduced to the American market, the eminently collapsible Le Pliage—which means “folding” in French—has saturated the streets of New York City as the practical shoulder bag of the moment: to be stuffed with gym clothes, schoolbooks, groceries, Evian bottles, Selfmagazines, important briefs, novels, four-inch heels, and whatever else it is women carry around all day. At some point in the past five years, it mysteriously overtook the Hervé Chapelier nylon tote, which served a similar purpose. Both are French. Both are available in a constantly changing seasonal variety of solid colors. Both are durable, and, reasonably inexpensive. “They’re very handy,” said Monique, 32, a Park Slope resident recently spotted in the West Village carrying three—three!—Le Pliages over her shoulder. “You don’t have a car here most of the time, so you need a bag that can carry you to work, to the gym, casual life.”

"It is definitely my first choice to bring to holidays. I love that the huge bag can be folded and tuck into my luggage bag. It also helps that its waterproof so I can be sure that important documents in my bag would be safe from the rain. It’s also a very durable bag; my Le Pliage bags which are already a few years old are still in tip top condition. Did I mention that it’s so spacious that I can fit a water bottle, a book, a wallet, an umbrella, makeup bag and other knickknacks in it?"

How To Spot Fake Longchamp

Most counterfeiters, especially sellers in China and Hong Kong will mislead you, with stock photos or photos of authentic bags. Always double-check your bag after you receive from the seller!  Check the details of the bag once you have it in your hands to make sure that what you received, is the real thing. The advice stated here is entirely my own personal opinions. Happy shopping!

Other BagsFrom what I've seen on eBay and at places selling knock-offs, the Pliage style totes seem to be copied the most. This includes purses, tote bags, cosmetic pouches, and coin purses. Please notice, this guide below does not apply to authenticating bags outside the regular Les Pliages line. 

PliageThese tips below apply to the Les Pliages line of folding nylon canvas bags (not to Planetes, limited edition Pliage bags or the leather bags). I have here pictures of two bags. The blue medium with long handles one is real, and the pink and tan shown are fake.  Sorry photos are blurry....

GENERAL

The fake is on the left, the real deal on the right. Right away, notice the left bag looks too shiny and the handles don't look right: too short for long handles, and too long for short-handle variant.

Before buying, eyeball the dimensions, check the measurements, then compare with official Longchamp website. Longchamp new colours of the canvas bags 2 times a year (for fall-winter and the spring-summer) but the leather trimming is same always.

Leather
There is contrast stitching on the leather parts of the bag, which is a different colour than the leather itself on the visible side (and same colour as the leather on the back of the flap). Many Pliages I have seen have plastic tubes in the handles, because the leather is soft and not very durable. Real Pliages have no plastic tubes and are made from durable, high-quality leather.

The fake leather looks like a fish-scale pattern, with clean lines of even depth.Sometimes it looks smooth or bumpy. On authentic bag, it is almost a diamond pattern, and grain is not embossed as deeply as the logo.


Leather Flap
An authentic bag has a jockey logo embossed on both the leather AND the snap. If there is no logo at all..... beware!!! 

OLD LOGO: (shown above) There is a jockey on a horse impressed down into the leather, and a straight line underneath. On the knock-off, the logo is not centered above the snap, the lines of the impression are not as clean as on the real, and the horse is lacking details like hooves.

NEW LOGO: (not pictured): Longchamp has introduced a new logo on the leather flap,though on my most recent trip to the shop they had the same bags with different versions of the logos. The new logo has the jockey and horse embossed, so the logo is raised up above the leather. There is _no_ line underneath, and if you look at the back side of the flap there will be a mark where the logo is raised.


The bag above is real. The back of the flap has writing above the stitching. This may, however, vary from bag to bag. On my "shopping" totes the words modèle déposé and made in france are between the lines of stitches (see arrow). Longchamp, Pliages and the name of the bag are above. 

Among real bags, there are variants. On a backpack I saw, the writing is all above the seams. Some say Pliages, some say Le Pliage.. Longchamp does not make all bags in France. Some Pliage are made in China.

Model Name
On my fake, the words modèle déposé are missing the accent marks. In any case, I think you have a fake for sure if the name printed on the back flap does not agree with actual model or it just says the word "type" but not _which_ type:
    sac a dos - backpack
    type L - large tote, short handles
    type M - medium-large tote, short handles
    type S - small tote
    "shopping" - large tote, long handles; medium tote long handles
    cabas - rectangular, no zipper

Reinforced Snaps
An easy one! Real bags have their snaps reinforced with clear plastic discs that extend beyond snaps on the inside of the bag. The foldable Pliages also have snaps near the bottom. 

Fabric and Lining
Bags should have crisp seams, and perhaps creases from the original folding. Your bag should fold nicely and the two parts of the snap meet easily. The fabric on fakes I saw is too shiny and texture is much smoother compared with real. If a bag looks too shiny in a photo (see top photo!), you may want to double-check it's other features.

Inside, the plastic coating that lines the bag feels like plastic but not rubbery. For pastel bags (light blue, pink, so on), lining should be WHITE, not same color as outside. The tan fake above is lined in tan, when it should be white. Dark colors are lined with black or brown. 

Zipper Pull

Longchamp Pliages have round logo zipper pulls, which can be gold or pewter depending on what shape the bag is. The real one is extremely detailed, and on the fake the bodies of the jockey and the horse blend together. Longchamp currently use YKK zippers, and you can see the letters on the zipper above.

Backside of Flap
Fake bag leather looks hairy and the edges jagged. Real one is also raw but is smooth and clean. On the snap itself, the fake has the words "guang tong" and real says, "ORIGINAL."