When Jackie Kennedy opened the door to a Gucci boutique in 1964, she didn’t expect to find a companion that would remain faithfully at her side forevermore. She liked the bag so much that she bought six of them! Not one, not two. Six. The bag, first conceived in 1955, is instantly recognizable for its...
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” Thus wrote Jack Kerouac in “On the Road”, the novel that defined a generation at the end of the 50s. This generation included Cassius Clay, aka Muhammad Ali, who was 15 when the...
Described by Silvia Venturini Fendi as “audacious, temporary but timeless, eccentric and out-of-the-ordinary”, the Fendi Baguette, loyal companion of Sarah Jessica Parker, has quickly become an international phenomenon. An avant-garde member of the “It-Bag” club. An object of desire with fashion icon status.On the Italian fashion house’s star item’s 15th birthday, Fendi dreamed up a lookbook of the...
Back in the winter of ’97, Silvia Venturini Fendi decided to launch the Fendi Baguette, a small refined handbag designed in a thousand different styles. Described by the designer as “bold, momentary but timeless, extravagant but extraordinary” Sarah Jessica Parker’s best friend has become a worldwide phenomenon leading the way to the It-Bag trend. In June,...
The 2.55, emblematic handbag of Chanel, summarizes on its own the spirit of Coco Chanel: her obsession with freeing women. The 2.55 design was imagined when she wore her binoculars on the racecourses, hands in pockets, boyish style. With its eyelets, its leather and brass braided chains, its famous “Mademoiselle” turn-inward clasp and its padded...
In the House of Gucci, the Bamboo bag is emblematic. At the end of the 40s, the shortage of leather lead Guccio Gucci to use other materials like bamboo thus leading to a stroke of genius that will deeply mark the history of the Italian luxury brand. The “sac Bamboo Gucci” was designed in 1947...
The Boy Chanel is the it-bag of the Winter 2011-2012. It is modern, classic and also “boyish”. This bag carries the story of the passionate love between Coco Chanel and Arthur Capel, her most beautiful love.
