Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen Are Selling $55K Backpacks Covered In Prescription Pills Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have come a long way since their tween clothing line for Walmart. The 26-year-old former TV star twins and current heads of a billion dollar empire, have just unveiled their latest accessories collection co-designed by contemporary artist, Damien Hirst. The threesome have created a black patent leather Nile crocodile backpack under the Olsen's The Row label, covered in Hirst's signature prescription pills. The backpacks are retailing for a whopping $55,000 on the retail as of December 12. Only 12 backpacks will be made and Hirst will determine how much of the proceeds from sales will be Other, more subtle designs have small gold or multicolored dots, large gold or multicolored dots, and black and grey "Each bag is crafted in Italy and includes features like an internal detachable handle, adjustable canvas straps, internal
zip-fastening, slit pockets, small gold-plated brass feet at base, a metal mirror plate and case, and designer-stamped gold-plated brass hardware signed by Hirst," reports TIME. But this isn't the first time an Olsen-designed bag has In June, PETA slammed the twins for using real animal pelts $16,900 fuzzy backpack from their line, The Row and last October, the designers faced criticism for selling $39,000 crocodile backpacks, that ironically Hirst famously set an auction record for the most expensive work of art by a living artist in 2007, when his piece Lullaby Spring, a steel cabinet with 6,136 pills, sold for $19.2 million to the Emir of Check out the current controversial bag below: Now watch the Hirst/Olsen-designed bags in action: In 10 years we'll all agree that Damien Hirst is a joke > Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen have moved on to