It was love at first sight. One of the founding fathers of contemporary photography, David Bailey truly fell for this bag that has the soul of an icon: the Cape Bag by Tod’s. “For the first time in my career, a bag was the connecting thread in my work,” admits Bailey. And it’s true! Inspired by modernism, David Bailey is much more used to injecting movement and immediateness into an artistic perspective than to capturing the atmosphere of an era. It was thus his work in London in the 60s that served as a springboard for fashion aesthetics; at the same time, his work defined the very atmosphere of the era. From Jean Shrimpton to Penelope Tree, with The Stones, Anjelica Huston, Warhol, or Kate Moss in between… they all fixed and incarnated their era through the mechanical eye of David Bailey. In the meantime, a new style was born: casual cool.
Today, to honor and incarnate this object’s refined soul, the photographer has carried out a series of photos with the Cape Bag by Tod’s as the central theme. For Bailey, this has a meaning since “for a woman a bag is an object of desire, the most loyal guardian when it comes to keeping her treasures and her secrets.” From this intimate and profound connection, Bailey brings out the powerful and sensual link between a woman and her object. The Cape Bag by Tod’s interpreted by David Bailey therefore becomes the pixelization of a flawless quality, right down to the details. The choice of the finest leather, the work of the most reputed Italian artisans here emerges with a surprising degree of cool for this anti it-bag from the Italian brand. Then comes the shape itself, like a warm embrace that encloses, surrounds, protects, and takes care of a woman and her most beautiful weaknesses. The refined feminine universe of Tod’s has finally found an imagination that’s on par with it in David Bailey
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