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,

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.