Louis Vuitton · Tier 2

City Steamer

Name: Louis Vuitton City Steamer
Brand: Louis Vuitton

Catalogued July 2026

The City Steamer is a structured top-handle bag Nicolas Ghesquière designed for Louis Vuitton, drawing on the house's early Steamer travel bag. It has a firm trapezoidal body, twin rolled handles, and the LV initials on the front hardware, and comes in several sizes. It arrived as a new pillar of Ghesquière's handbag lineup in the mid-2010s.

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What it's worth

Louis Vuitton · City Steamer · Black

This exact variant · 922 recorded prices

Best listed right now: $1,080 on Rebag, well below the typical price (median $2,350).

Demand is light and prices are soft, so there's little pressure to move fast.

No longer in production, so resale is the only way to buy it.

By condition · compared like-for-like

excellent

29 prices

very good

44 prices

$1,600$3,200

Estimated from recorded resale prices (849 with condition unrecorded) · not an appraisal. As of 2026-08-24.

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Where it stands

#174

of 534 styles in the LC Index

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⚖Blended from price, trade volume, and scarcity.
◷Recomputed monthly from recorded market prices.

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LHouseLouis Vuittonest. 1854 · France ColourBlack

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ColorwayBlack

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StatusDiscontinued

Marketresale

Resale price history

-49%

$2,335 → $1,180 across 922 recorded sales

2026-06 – 2026-08

Estimated from recorded resale prices · not an appraisal or investment forecast. Values can go down as well as up.

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