Brigitte Tanaka’s intriguing so-called bags at fashion week, a collaboration with undercover
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This is the end of branded bags! The era of luxury bags is over! the headlines announce. Before you degenerate into the realms of happiness because you’ve never entered the luxury bag game, keep in mind that the Internet is a wide and inclusive place, so you can also find the completely opposite titles. We live in a spectacular age where absolute contradictions exist side by side and the truth is what you decide is the truth. Or what the algorithm decided for you to be the truth.
In any case, to support the version according to which there is no longer a need (and it is also possible to give up the desire) to adopt a branded bag, or even a representative bag, we will mobilize the fact that it seems that the tote bag trend is not going anywhere, and the small, useful and very generic Uniqlo bag ( Originally $20, currently on sale for over $2!!!) was the most searched for accessory online in 2023 and starred in the #1 spot on lyst’s Hot List (beating out the Skims bodysuit and adidas gazelle model).
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Exactly in the spring of a year ago I wrote in my section in Lashe about the moment of tote bags in the spotlight. So I pointed an accusing finger towards the first episode of the fourth season of “Heirs”, during which Greg’s date arrived at Logan Roy’s birthday with a Burberry tote bag – for her a luxury bag that she invested $2000 in, for them: here is a simple people who didn’t learn that they don’t come to the event Intimate happening in an apartment with a huge bag. Burberry tote bag? A thousand dollars? Yes. While a tote bag can also be the bag you got for free when you bought a t-shirt, it can also be the iconic strand bookstore bag, or the even more iconic ll bean bag (Caroline Best Kennedy had one) and it can be a $200 fashion house bag (perhaps find even more if you really insist).
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ToJoyce Lee, until recently the chief designer of madewell, has a private line of custom-made tote bags through her Instagram: from time to time she invites her followers to write to her what size bag they want and what they want printed on it, and she makes and sends it. Surprisingly, many people choose to print names like Hermès, Chloé and Gucci on their seemingly simple tote bag.
From Joyce’s Instagram
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Submission suggestion, some canvas bags I hunted down along the way:
01 A canvas bag from the eight collection by Zucker and mine, designed from cotton canvas fabric precisely because all we want is to shove everything into a large but high-quality canvas bag.
02 The bag of peace & quiet, because wishful thinking is hidden here.
03 A museum bag. To sprinkle cultural fairy dust around you.
04 Borrowing from the styling advice to dress according to the job you want: print the job you want on the fabric bag.
05 Strand’s bag. will make people think there are books inside (bonus: starred in a Sofia Coppola movie).
06 Merci’s bag. Comes with a French accent and a million colors.
07 James Perse’s CNBS bag. Careful, it just looks cheap
08 The ll bean bag that is celebrating its eightieth birthday this year (this is the bag that Carolyn Best Kennedy packed her blanket in on her way to the beach).
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Reminder: Nora Efron was there before all of us, and the bag she liked best was the yellow bag (horrible, if I may) in the shape of a New York subway ticket. She wrote about it in the chapter “I hate my bag”, in the book “I hate my neck” (here are quotes from the book, translated by Ofra Avigad):
“I hate my bag. I really hate him. If you’re one of those who think bags are a great thing, don’t even bother reading this chapter because you won’t find anything here that will interest you.” she warns in advance. She later says that as a woman who writes from home, she has always been able to manage without a bag. When she became a director, this chapter in her life ended and she had to adopt a case: “For some time I was looking for an answer. Like those Hollywood women who are willing to dive into teachings like Kabbalah or Scientology or yoga, I read almost every article about bags that promised me some kind of redemption from this torment.” A $3000 thing. Spoiler: The company finds the trusted bag dealer, buys the bag she wanted but not in the exact color she wanted and without a waterproof coating for only $2600, then the bag gets wet in the rain. or something like that. After this adventure, Nora returns to New York and finally finds her bag:
‘It looks like a shopping bag, but it’s just the best bag I’ve ever owned. It has a picture of the Metrocard, the New York subway card on it – it’s yellow (cab yellow, to be exact) and blue (the most shocking shade of blue, flashy velvet blue) – so it doesn’t go with anything, so on a deeper level it goes with everything.’
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Watch recommendation for the weekend (not related to bags unless you consider the bag that will soon appear here): The show “Friends Singing Korin” is here at 11 (aired sometime during the holiday, look for it on vod).
It’s a show that goes from high point to high point. Here is one of the highlights for me: Avitar Banai sings the The chivalric industry who wrote Meir Goldberg. One of the most beautiful songs in Hebrew, which includes one of the most beautiful sentences in Hebrew:
He worked every hour, never looked at the sunset
that fell like a sack on his back