Thieves broke into a Chanel store on the Upper East Side on Sunday stealing handbags and damaging a window on the store’s front, according to the NYPD. Two people used a sledgehammer to break a window and took three purses before getting away,

Two sledgehammer-wielding men smashed their way into the Chanel store on Madison at 64th Street at around 7pm on Sunday and stole the designer purses valued at $10,000 each. The suspects then allegedly fled on foot.

Police are searching for two sledgehammer-wielding men who broke into an Upper East Side Chanel store and stole tens of thousands of dollars in expensive bags on Sunday evening.

Two fashionistas-turned-criminals used sledgehammers to smash the window of an NYC Chanel store to steal pricey purses. The purses, valued at approximately $10,000 each, were stolen when the suspects smashed through the front window of a store located at Madison and 64th Street in Manhattan around 7 p.