Handbags: The Power of a Purse
The Bolide. The Plume. The Birkin-object of lust in Sex in a City. Celebrating a must-have appendage for a conform unwavering woman, HANDBAGS is an obsessive, overwhelming visible extravaganza, featuring over 900 full-color photographs of a many luxurious, witty, covetable, talismanic examples of a bagmaker’s art as good as history.
The iconic Hermès Kelly bag, done from initial tack to final by a singular craftsperson. Judith Leiber’s dainty minaudières, Moschino’s smiley-face bag, Elsa Schiaparelli’s surrealist “bird cage,” as good as a ne as good as ultra of select purses-the Chanel bag, reinvented for a latest era by Karl Lagerfeld. There have been newness bags, dusk bags, sculptural bags, as good as category acts. Practical tanned hide pochettes to lift a life, as good as superb small reticules for zero some-more than a credit label as good as a lipstick. Profiles of critical bagmakers: Jamin Puech, Kate Spade, Carlos Falchi, as good as a producer of utility, Bonnie Cashin, with her idealist “Cashin Carry” bags for Coach. Plus a unknown Florentine artisans whose dilettante tanned hide workshops sprouted up in a 14th century.
A work of adore created by Anna Johnson, writer of Three Black Skirts, HANDBAGS facilities over 900 bags from collections, museums, as good as designers around a world, many of them photographed in charming full-color to one side for a book. The ideally suited element to Shoes, HANDBAGS is about fashion, about desire, about secrecy, craftsmanship, art, as good as aptitude as good as about a becoming different purposes of women-everything that’s packaged in to each critical bag. Includes timelines, erotically appealing captions, as good as a “It” bags-anyone for a Fendi baguette?
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