This Bang & Olufsen x Balenciaga Bluetooth speaker is the weirdest collab of the year

The world of digital audio tech moves at breakneck speed and one can often uncover curious and highly intriguing partnerships – think Maserati and Sonus faber, Philips and Bowers & Wilkins, Dirac and Nio or Devialet and premium economy flight seats for starters. Sometimes these burgeoning relationships bear strange but beautiful fruit (see the Maserati Cielo or Razer’s green sneaker collaboration with Cariuma). And then sometimes you get a metal handbag-shaped Bluetooth speaker with an Italian lambskin-lined storage compartment inside.

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