Louis Vuitton · Tier 2
By Arielle · Catalogued July 2026
The Louis Vuitton Alma is the house's structured, dome-shaped top-handle bag: a firm rounded silhouette with a flat base, a short handle and a zip that follows the curve of the top. It traces back to 1934, designed under Gaston-Louis Vuitton and named for the Place de l'Alma in Paris, and it is still made today across Epi leather (the original material), Monogram canvas, Damier and glossy Monogram Vernis. It comes in a size ladder from Nano and BB up through PM, MM and GM, so one Alma can range from a palm-sized mini to a roomy tote.
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Material
Permanent finishes are offered year-round; seasonal ones rotate and retire. A finish being listed here doesn’t mean we have one for sale right now.
The Louis Vuitton Alma GM is a coated canvas (Monogram) bag.
Best listed right now: $510 on The RealReal, well below the typical price (median $1,431).
Discontinued: no longer in production, so resale is the only way to buy it.
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Resale by production era: 3 listings, estimated from recorded prices.
Estimated from recorded resale prices · not an appraisal. As of 2026-06-29.
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A 1934 Art Deco design that only took the name Alma, after a Paris bridge, decades later.
Origin
Gaston-Louis Vuitton designed the structured top-handle bag in 1934, first calling it the Squire. It translated the house's trunk-making into a handbag, was renamed more than once over the years, and only formally became the Alma in 1992, after Place de l'Alma in Paris.
Design
Its bold, symmetrical lines reflect the 1930s Art Deco movement, finished with the rounded rolled-leather handles the house calls Toron. Toron is the name for that twisted leather handle.
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$1,665 → $1,665 across 8 recorded sales
2026-06 – 2026-06
Estimated from recorded resale prices · not an appraisal or investment forecast. Values can go down as well as up.
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Good to know
An often-repeated story holds that Gabrielle Chanel commissioned an early version of the shape as a custom order in the 1920s, then later agreed to let Louis Vuitton produce it for the public. It is widely told, though hard to confirm.
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By the numbers
Across 8 recorded resale listings, the Alma sits around $1,431. This is our estimate from current data, not an appraisal, as of 2026-06-29.
Designers and muses.
Gaston-Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton designer
Grandson of the founder, who designed the structured top-handle bag in 1934.
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