Louis Vuitton · Tier 2

Keepall

Name: Louis Vuitton Keepall 45
Brand: Louis Vuitton

Catalogued July 2026

The Louis Vuitton Keepall is the house's classic soft-sided travel duffle, introduced in the 1930s and crafted first in canvas and leather, later in Monogram coated canvas. It has a cylindrical body, a full-length zip top, rolled leather handles, and a hanging padlock, built for the new age of car and air travel when lighter luggage was needed. The Bandouliere versions add a removable shoulder strap. It remains an icon of Louis Vuitton luggage and a staple of the men's and travel lines.

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Size

254550 55 60 XS Unknown

Colour

BlackWhite Brown Unknown

Material

Leather Monogram Damier Ebene Damier AzurMonogram EmpreinteUnknown

Hardware

brass silvergoldUnknown

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Made in

What the house has produced this bag in, from our sourced records.

Material

Monogramdefault, Damier Ebene, Damier Azur, Monogram Eclipse, Monogram Empreinte

Seasonal: Damier Graphite, Macassar / Seasonal Print

Construction

Bandoulieredefault, Plain

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 black shades we’ve recorded (3)

Brown163Red26Black, Pattern Prints1

Shades recorded from resale listings, in the sellers’ own words. Chanel doesn’t publish official seasonal colour names, so treat these as descriptions, not house names.

The Louis Vuitton Keepall 45 in Black is a Monogram Empreinte bag.

What it's worth

Louis Vuitton · Keepall · 45 · Black

This exact variant · 1000 recorded prices

Best listed right now: $665 on Fashionphile, well below the typical price (median $2,265).

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

11 prices

very good

22 prices

$665$3,495

Estimated from recorded resale prices (967 with condition unrecorded) · not an appraisal. As of 2026-08-27.

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Where it stands

#206

of 537 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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The three measures behind #206

By priceof 537 styles

#270Cassandre Envelope · Saint Laurent
#271Keepall · Louis Vuitton
#272Ophidia Tote · Gucci

By trade volumeof 537 styles

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LHouseLouis Vuittonest. 1854 · France LeatherMonogram Empreinte Hardwaregold ColourBlack

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Specifications

Size45

Exterior materialMonogram Empreinte

ColorwayBlack

Hardware colorgold

StatusDiscontinued

Marketresale

About Monogram Empreinte

Typeleather

Resale price history

-25%

$2,995 → $2,255 across 1000 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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Care for it

Monogram Empreinte: Coated canvas is the low-maintenance one. Wipe it down; save the leather care for the trim.

Protectant spray

An invisible barrier that helps the bag shrug off water and light stains.

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Base shaper

A firm insert that stops the bottom from sagging under its own weight.

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Pillow / bag shaper

A soft stuffed pillow that fills the body so it holds its shape in storage.

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The case for

The coated canvas is close to indestructible. Owners describe bags from the early 1990s still in service, one thrown down flights of airport stairs, with the canvas itself unmarked.
3 sources · r/Louisvuitton: is the Keepall worth it?
Capacity lands about where the numbers suggest. A 45 covers two or three nights if you skip extra shoes, a 55 takes most of a week for a light packer.
3 sources · r/Louisvuitton: is the Keepall worth it?
The Bandouliere strap is the difference between a usable bag and an ornament. The top handles are too short to get over a shoulder, so loaded it is a two-hand carry without it.
3 sources · r/Louisvuitton: is the Keepall worth it?
Buying preloved is the common advice for this one specifically, since it is luggage and takes abuse. Watch the canvas rather than the leather: Louis Vuitton will replace vachetta and hardware, but a cracked canvas is the end of the bag.
2 sources · YouTube owner review, @DonnaIsabella, Keepall Bandouliere 55 bought preloved

The gripes

The vachetta is the part that fails. Handles and straps dry out and crack, and Louis Vuitton replaces rather than repairs, with one owner quoted several hundred dollars for a single handle.
2 sources · PurseForum: how to stop cracking on vachetta leather, plus LV repair quote
Packed full it is genuinely heavy to walk an airport with. A striking number of owners have retired theirs to car and train trips, or perch it on a rolling case.
4 sources · r/Louisvuitton: is the Keepall worth it?
The strap is not comfortable for long stretches even when it fits. The sliding shoulder pad has also split at the strap opening within weeks for some owners.
2 sources · r/Louisvuitton: what size is your Keepall, 45/50/55?
Inside is one open compartment with little more than a single small pocket, so anything small disappears unless you add an organiser or packing cubes.
2 sources · YouTube owner review, @DonnaIsabella, Keepall Bandouliere 55 bought preloved
Under-packed it collapses in on itself. Owners either fill the corners with soft items first or buy a base shaper, partly because the folded straps crease and crack at the midpoint.
2 sources · r/Louisvuitton: Keepall Bandouliere 50 as a flight carry-on

We write these in our own words from reviews published elsewhere, then let owners here vote them up or down. Read as of July 2026. Reputation shifts, so if one of these has stopped being true, mark it out of date.