Top 10 luxury Christmas gifts for your most decadent friends – US$7,650 Hermès wastebasket or miniature bathtub with 8,600 Swarovski crystals, anyone?

Slap a designer name on the most ordinary objects, and they’ll positively drip with extravagance. So how about it?

A Saint Laurent condom is a bargain at US$2; at the other end of the scale, Tiffany’s sterling silver and 24-carat gold chess set costs a cool US$75,000

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Fancy a bathtub encrusted with 8,600 Swarovski crystals for a Christmas gift this year? The customised creation costs US$5,200.

Published: 7:00pm, 8 Dec 2019Updated: 7:00pm, 8 Dec 2019

Toothbrushes, dog collars, rubbish bins, and fire extinguishers are all standard products that ultimately have no indulgent or elaborate qualities.

But if you plate them in gold? Or slap a designer name on them? They'll positively drip with extravagance; they'll become luxury items.

With the holiday season quickly approaching, we rounded up a few over-the-top luxury items that are currently on the market, including a US$920 Louis Vuitton keychain and a US$7,650 Hermès wastebasket, among other ordinary-yet-fancified objects.

Note that this list is only a small sampling of the exhaustive luxury market. It’s organised in ascending order of price.

A Saint Laurent condom is on sale for US$2.

10. A single Saint Laurent-branded condom is selling for just over US$2.

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