Valentine’s Day 2022: The Iconic Bags To Offer

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Valentine’s Day 2022: The Iconic Bags To Offer

If Valentine’s Day is the occasion to treat yourself or to be given a gift as a gentle gesture — at Icon-Icon, we like to help make the personal story join the history of iconic products!

What To Offer For Valentine’s Day 2022? Bags from Hermès, Chanel, Dior and More!

Valentine’s Day celebrates love in all its forms… Whether it is about expressing one’s attachment to the loved one, one’s half or one’s best friend — the gift translates this energy into an object that will soon become familiar. And among the fetish items to offer for Valentine’s Day, the handbags still hold the top of the basket!

Because they will accompany every day with their chic and refinement the steps of being so celebrated — the iconic bags are a sure value. But then, which offer not to be mistaken? Icon-Icon has put its know-how at your service to draw up this selection of iconic bags because historic. Pieces of the great history of fashion that will illuminate the daily life of the one who will be offered them!

And among these most desired bags, we obviously find the exquisite leather splendours signed Hermès.

Hermes Bags : Must Have for Valentine’s Day

The most desired bag in the world, the Kelly by Hermès became iconic on the arm of Princess Grace Kelly… While she hid her womb from the paparazzi, one day in 1956. Alongside her husband Prince Rainier III of Monaco, Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, is photographed during a descent from a plane that has become mythical. The photo ends up on the cover of Life magazine. And Hermès, in 1977, renamed its bag in tribute to the Princess. Ideal gift but somewhat difficult to obtain, it is a grail that will certainly make the happiness of the one you want to amaze!

Another iconic bag to offer especially for Valentine’s Day — the Birkin! A bag whose story is worth its weight in gold… I was on a plane between London and Paris in the 1980s and I was sitting, without knowing it, next to Jean-Louis Dumas, the president of Hermès. My Hermes calendar was so full that it all fell apart. He told me I’d better put my personal belongings in closed pockets. I replied: ‘If Hermès put pockets…’ he replied ‘I am Mr. Hermès and I will put pockets for you’. A month later, he sent me a bag and asked me if he could call it the Birkin.”

In the Hermes directory, here is another easier bag to find—the Constance. A classic no less refined that, since its creation in 1959, never ceases to accompany the daily life of women and men in search of discreet and eloquent luxury.

Dior Bags: Valentine’s Day Adoration

Dior bags are one of the most iconic pieces! The most wanted of all? The Lady Dior!

1994. A new addition to the Dior leather goods repertoire – internally, it has been named Chouchou. In 1995, the company’s press kit announced “Lady, Lady Di, Lady Dior”. What happened in the meantime? Diana travelled to Paris to attend the opening of the Cézanne exhibition at the Grand Palais in 1995. Bernadette Chirac, then First Lady, asked the house of Dior for advice on how to give a gift to her guest… On that day in 1995, seen in the hands of Lady Di, the Dior bag was literally enthroned.

The last Dior bag to invade the galaxy, the Saddle. His return in 2018 was made with great noise

Chanel Bags: Companions of Valentine’s Day

Coco Chanel took care to imagine her bags as the ideal companion for active women. The 2.55 bag is the mythical piece of Chanel ambition.

2 for February. 55 for 1955… Imagined by the seamstress during her triumphant return, she who has already redefined the elegance, the sobriety and the silhouette of an active woman, gives this woman a bag allowing her to release her hands. Inspired by the way she liked to wear her binoculars on racetracks, he sums up Coco Chanel’s ambition: his obsession to free women.

More recent piece of this love DNA: the Boy bag. The bag imagined in 2011 by Karl Lagerfeld pays tribute to the only true love of Gabrielle Chanel, the English polo player Boy Capel. Boy Capel who also allowed him to open his very first boutique in Deauville. Without this love, which served as a springboard for Coco’s overflowing creativity, the modern woman of Chanel could have had a completely different destiny. Because, determined to pay him back as soon as possible, one year was enough for Chanel to assume her emancipation!

Louis Vuitton Bags: Valentine’s Day Sure Value

Audrey Hepburn is the one who owes us the most perfect. For if it was in 1930 that George Vuitton, son of Louis, imagined “the Express” as a reduced version of the Keepall… At the request of Audrey Hepburn, the company began producing the-dit Speedy, but in the small size that we know today, the Speedy.

Gucci, Fendi and Prada Bags: Valentine’s Day in Italy

In the house of Gucci, the Bamboo bag is the most iconic. 1947: The shortage of raw materials after the Second World War forced the Gucci workshop to experiment with new compositions. Thanks to a patented technique, Guccio Gucci chose to work with bamboo imported from Japan to produce the handles of his bags. The legend of the Bamboo Bag was born.

The other perfect bag to offer or treat yourself to on Valentine’s Day: Jackie by Gucci!

His name was Constance, until the divinely fashionable intervention of Jackie O. She pushed the door of a Gucci shop, in 1961. The most fashionable first lady in the galaxy fell under its spell – she bought not two or three models. Jackie O. walks out of the store with six Constance bags! Of all its appearances, the Constance becomes the Jackie. And the new Jackie 1961 version adds to the legend of this icon!

Before becoming one of the most inflated and creative art directors in the fashion landscape in recent years, Alessandro Michele worked at Gucci as head of accessories design. When Michele was named artistic director of the house in 2015, the man enchanted far beyond the fashion world with his first collection. Among this explosion of creativity, critics, journalists and fashionistas have already spotted an unusual piece: the Dionysus bag, an original.

Created in 2008 by Silvia Venturini Fendi, the Peekaboo is a mutinous bag, and literally revolutionary! Reflecting on the success of the Peekaboo, Silvia Venturini Fendi said: “This bag marked a break in 2008 because, in a period of madness around it bags, it knew how to look “inside” of itself, to highlight the uniqueness of a craft work with a bold choice and without limits of materials.”

Hooked up with Prada? This is a bag that embodies the quintessence of the Prada style — the Galleria has become a timeless classic.

For those who prefer the Prada bag that brought the house in the 90s…. The Nylon Bag is the place to go.

“I always wanted to mix the industrial ways of producing things with past heritage, with the craft tradition. A luxury bag cut from nylon, it took the audacity of Miuccia Prada to impose it on the world. From nylon as a material then used for military tents, Prada had just brought fashion into the era of it-bags. And this, from a bag that has redefined the very terms of luxury.

Even more confidential, the 1969 bags of Paco Rabanne, the D-Bag of Tod’s, the Saint Laurent Loulou or Antigona de Givenchy embody, each in their own way, an ideal gift of Valentine’s Day. When it is not about offering the last bag to have created a tsunami of desire—the Chiquito, of Jaquemus.

The hardest part will be to choose one of these iconic bags!

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Kelly Hermès: The Most Wanted Bag In The World

Birkin Hermès, This bag is worth more than gold…

The Constance from Hermès, An Imperturbable Icon

The Lady, Lady Di, Lady Dior

When the 2.55 became the Timeless Classic

The Boy from Chanel

The Speedy : The Louis Vuitton Imprint

The Bamboo, an Iconic Code of the Gucci House

The Jackie from Gucci

The Dionysus Bag, Icon of the New Century

Peekaboo Fendi : Story of a Mutin Bag

The Galleria Bag, the Unmissable of Maison Prada