Gucci shot on location at a place filled with the brand’s history. A game of seductive cat-and-mouse between the Gucci woman and a persistent photographer unfolds at the Savoy Hotel in London. Within these very same walls, one Guccio Gucci worked as a lift operator at the turn of the century. In this historic hotel,...
Category: Handbags
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The Bamboo Shopper Bag by Gucci
Gucci manufactured its first bags in 1921. While the label may have become a master in the creation of it-bags, its Bamboo style is still one of its most emblematic creations. Released in an era where materials like leather were rationed, this model was fashioned in a robust Tuscan boar skin, lined with two pockets...
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News Shades of Louis Vuitton’s SC Bag
This story begins in 2008. A close friend of Marc Jacobs, creative director for the brand, Sofia Coppola posed alongside her father for their luggage line’s ad campaign. One year later, she would head to Asnières, historic headquarters of Louis Vuitton’s workshops, to place a very special order. Taking inspiration from the iconic Speedy and Keepall for her bag,...
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The Pliage Bag and its New Address in London
All it took was a trip to Japan for Philippe Cassegrain to develop a fascination for origami. He wished to create a bag that, like an envelope, could be folded up when not in use. Both perfectly ingenious and essentially simple, the first model was released in 1993. Garnished with Russian leather and fabricated in...
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The Knot Clutch by Bottega Veneta
Just like Bottega Veneta, the Berlin-based manufacturer takes particular care to develop a refined and sensual sensitivity in line with tradition and innovation. Modesty, quality, and refinement: this is luxury according to Bottega Veneta, in the purest of artisanal traditions. Founded in Berlin and acquired by Frederic II of Prussia in 1763, KPM works porcelain in all of its...
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The Lady Dior and Andy Warhol
The collection was thought up like an inspiration notebook. This partnership between The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Dior culminates in delicate pieces that, through their pure lines, transcend these retrogressive Warhol sketches from the 50s. This is how a recurring theme with modern traits ends up on the Lady Dior: a high heel....
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The Baguette by Fendi: a Dream on a Cold Winter’s Night
26 x 14 cm are the dimensions of this most iconic of Italian handbags. It’s been called a bunker that only carries what is essential to the woman inside of it: a tube of lipstick and a credit card. Its distinctive signature: not having any, besides extravagance and the art of surprise. This bag was...
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Tod’s Sella Bag In Pop Touch by David LaChapelle
For Diego Della Valle, it’s all about “interpreting the saddlery universe while adding a pop touch” in order to better grasp all the inspiration as well as the universe of this new line. The photographer’s touch plunges the Italian brand’s excellence and savoir-faire into a colorful and dreamy odyssey, where the world of LaChapelle imbues...
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The Speedy by Louis Vuitton
Before swapping its diminutive for an even more English-sounding one, the Speedy was called “L’Express”; created in 1930 to be a travel handbag that was a smaller version of the Keepall. From 1933 onwards, the Speedy Monogram LV was an enormous success; but it took more than 30 years before one of the most gracious...
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Balenciaga’s Le Dix Handbag
In opposition to the Balencaiga’s typical handbag trends, Alexander Wang is proposing a neoclassic that’s a bit removed from the label’s codes. Next to the soft leather and studs of the “Motorcycle”, “Le Dix” possesses a more structured and rigid shape: a minimalist strand for its allure. Nevertheless, this first line by the New York...