The Olsen Twins' $39,000 Alligator Skin Backpack Is Flying Off Shelves

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Ashley Olsen seen on the streets of Manhattan on July 25, 2011 with a water bottle, carrying $39,000 slung over her arms.

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There's no economic recession here.

Just earlier this year, actresses-turned-fashionistas Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson launched their newest handbag line that includes a backpack with a price tag to die for. (Well, maybe at least one alligator did.) The famed $39,000 item for their line, The Row, isn't just ludicrous; it's flying off the shelves and actually selling out.

Barneys New York, who stocks the bag, is of course thrilled. The department store's fashion director, Amanda Brooks, gloated, “'I think if you were ever going to spend $39,000 on a bag, that's the bag you should buy because I think you'd wear it for a really long time.” Right.

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Ashley Olson also had a few choice words to say about the bag's popularity. “During our last economic crisis in the U.S., the only thing that went up was Hermès,” she reflected, while sipping champagne with shoe magician Christian Louboutin.

But you know there's an upside to it all: maybe the twins can fuel the expansion of their company with new jobs, thus replacing one worker for every one bag that is sold. That's unless, of course, there was only one bag to start with – the one that Ashley is carrying.

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Erica Ho is a reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @ericamho and Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.

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September 27, 2011 10: 54 GMT state Joaquín Guzmán is the head of the Sinaloa cartel drug in Mexico, the wife of Mexico most drug Baron, Joaquín Guzmán of wanted's, gave birth to twin girls in a hospital in the United States.

Emma Coronel reported her daughters in the Antelope Valley in Northern Los Angeles hospital on 15 August, the Los Angeles Times.

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is the head of Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking gang, the Sinaloa cartel.

MS Coronel, a former beauty queen, who holds US citizenship, returned to Mexico, after the twins were born.

Born in California, the children will have also US citizenship.

Birth certificates of listed 22-year-old Ms. Coronel as the mother of the girls, but the spaces for the name of the father were empty, said the LA Times.

American law enforcement officials who pursued their movements, yet before she traveled to the hospital in Lancaster in the mid-July, said that she was not arrested because there were no charges against them.

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MS Coronel is probably the third or fourth wife of Guzmán, the 54-year-old multi-billionaire.

The couple married on the eighteenth birthday at a lavish wedding in the Highlands of Mexico in 2007.

The US authorities are a $5 m (£ 3.25 m) bounty on the head Guzman, claimed that he and his cartel over the majority of trafficked cocaine and marijuana in the United States of Mexico and Colombia.

Guzmán the nickname means El Chapo Shorty - he is about 5 ft 6 in (1.67 m) high.

Guzmán made magazine Forbes list of the most powerful people 67 worldwide two years ago. At number 41, he was just under Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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  The twins do not appear to have suffered neurological side effects as a result of surgery Twins who were born joined at the head have been successfully separated by a team of British doctors.
Baby girls Rital and Ritag Gaboura, who are 11 months old, were separated on 15 August after four operations at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
They do not appear to have suffered neurological side effects. Only one in 10 million sufferers survive their rare condition.
The Sudanese infants were flown to the UK by the charity Facing the World.
Conjoined twins are very rare and only 5% of conjoined twins are craniopagus, which means they are fused at the head.
About 40% of twins fused at the head are stillborn or die during labour and a third die within 24 hours.
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We are very thankful to be able to look forward to going home with two separate, healthy girls”

End Quote Parents of the twins The nature of the twins' condition meant significant blood flowed between their brains.
Ritag supplied half her sister's brain with blood whilst draining most of it back to her heart. It was a life-threatening situation because significant drops in brain blood pressure would cause neurological damage.
The children were born by Caesarean section in Khartoum, Sudan.
The girls' parents, who are both doctors, said: "We are very thankful to be able to look forward to going home with two separate, healthy girls. We are very grateful to all the doctors who volunteered their time and to Facing the World for organising all the logistics and for paying for the surgery.
The parents have expressed immense gratitude for the work carried out by the doctors
"We feel very lucky that our girls have been able to have the surgery that they needed, but we also know of other children who need complete sponsorship and families who are searching for someone to help them."
So far, the girls are reacting in the same ways to tests and stimuli as they did prior to surgery which suggests they have not suffered neurological side effects.
However, their young age makes it difficult to determine whether this is definitely the case.
David Dunaway, from the plastic surgery and craniofacial unit at Great Ormond Street, was the lead clinician and is also a trustee of Facing the World.
He said: "The incidences of surviving twins with this condition are extremely rare. The task presented innumerable challenges and we were all very aware of our responsibilities to the family and these two little girls.
"The Gaboura family have been extremely brave throughout a very stressful journey and their love for their children is clear to see. It is a testimony to the support of the British public that we are able to do any of the charity work that we do."
Facing the World is funded by donations from members of the public.

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