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Why Women Have Great Passion for Luxury Handbags

Fashion accessories always make women in best look. Ans also these stylish accessories are good interpretations of women’s special senses of fashion. Among so many fashion elements, handbags play pivotal role to hightlight women’s outfits. No one could deny that handbags are best friends in a woman’s life span. That is why nothing can stop their passions for purchasing handbags specially luxury ones.

As we know, luxury handbags equal handsome amount of money. However, owning such a bag is still the passion of many ladies all the time.
As for the reasons why women love luxury handbags, the first thing hits me is that women are born to love fashion. It seems that women are very sensitive to any fashion trends. And luxury studios and brands always bring voguish trends first. They lead the fashion circle. If a woman wants to express her fashion attitude and statement through their handbags, luxury ones are good options.

Apart from the nature love of women, the second reason that makes women favor luxury bags is that usually luxury bags enjoy good durability. Brands are good warranties of high qualities. Authentic leather bags from famous brands usually last for ages. The trendy designs and prints on your adored bags will last for a long time as well.

Women are easily influenced by celebrities is another factor causing them being fond of luxury bags. As we know, movie stars and well-known singers prefer voguish bags. Women admire them and then follow their idols’ styles. Someone points that celebrities’ pattern is an essential reason why women love handbags especially luxury ones.

Furthermore, highly brand consciousness is also a reason causing women chasing brandy bags. Brand name is a good statement for fashion in itself. Some women hold the point that luxury brand builds their confidence. While others think that brand is the name of high quality and excellent service. If they carry luxury bags, they will feel they are acceptable in fashion realm.
The last but the not the least, comparing with men, women tend to love showing off. They enjoy such feelings. Consider the unique style, color, high quality material and stunning prices which designer handbags have, you can easily imagine they will make women look special and eye-catching in crowds. If handbags will make their friends jealous, they will feel pleased and more confident.

 

Louis Vuitton Speedy History and Development_102

Handbags are best friends of lady and we treat them as the closest accompany and hold our various small accessories in them. A person who really knows about fashion will know that a suitable bag could reflect her temperament and bring her much delicate temperament in some situations. Louis Vuitton Speedy is such a bag every one want to own.

The idol of a generations people Audrey Hepbum is a sincere fan of Louis Vuitton speedy bag. Louis Vuitton released the portable travel bag Speedy in 1930 and it attracted the attention and love of various stars and celebrities by its concise design and fashionable outlook.

Louis Vuitton Speedy
Since 1960s Speedy has become the daily use bag from a travel bag and it opened the new trend of daily use bag fashion. The original name of Speedy is Express and with the streamline design this bag quickly won the name Speedy and reflected the fast developing society and fast space life attitude from another aspect. In 1965 Audrey Hepburn asked Henri-Louis Vuitton to make a small size Speedy bag and then the 25 Speedy came to the world. The image of Audrey Hepburn handling this bag also became the classic picture of the century.

After 80 years, Speedy has become the most classic pattern of Louis Vuitton and they are giving designers unceasing inspiration. In the autumn and winter season 2010 Speedy has been given new fashion explanation by Marc Jacobs. The all-round new Speedy continued the doctor bag shape with spreading bag body and new cover and handle. There is also some change in the color and the classic Monogram logo appears on the bag and it is matched with bright flakes.

 

Louis Vuitton Necklaces and Pendants for Men_67

As one part of the Cape Town collection, this Cape Town necklace features a graphic LV signature and an original combination of metal and dark tiger wood. This tag pendant on a fine chain is elegant and masculine. It is composed of the luxurious metal and elegant dark tiger wood with perfect color to match the metal frame. In the picture right above the necklace is inspired by the metal walls of Louis Vuittons Champs-Elysées store, this modern theme for men combines steel and black lacquer with laser-engraved Monogram flowers. This tag pendant features a perforated LV logo. It is wholly made of the stainless steel and lacquer as one significant part of masterpiece of the Champs-Elysées Black collection.

Inspired by the metal walls of Louis Vuittons Champs-Elysées store, this mens jewelry collection uses innovative engraving techniques. The pendant in the picture left above has two steel tags with the LV logo and plaque. These two labels are made of prominent steel of Louis Vuitton with the significant initials of Louis Vuitton to manifest the high social status and noble identity of the user. The Soho line for men is distinguished by its cutting-edge combination of metal and leather embossed with the Damier pattern. This striking pendant is engraved with the Louis Vuitton Paris signature. The apparent color comparison of black and silver bring us a graceful temperament with its concise but elegant design. On the pendant, the brass is also attached with shiny palladium finishing and black leather.

The Damier 4 Graphite line translates the graphic, urban spirit of Louis Vuittons Damier Graphite canvas. This silver and lacquer pendant looks stylish and sophisticated. It is composed of sterling silver and lacquer.

 

MALINKA BACKPACK FROM HAYDEN-HARNETT

A few mornings ago it was the same old story, I was crammed onto an over packed 7 traintrying to hang on to the handrail, read the New Yorker, and hold my overly heavy handbag in the crook of my elbow. Of course my arm was falling asleep and I could feel a shooting pain in my back that was stooped over from the bag’s weight. Finally I decided enough is enough and I need to get a comfy backpack to even out the weight that I have to carry.

As luck would have it I was poking around the sale room at the Rockefeller Center Anthropologie the next day and spotted the Malinka Backpack by Hayden-Harnett sitting in the back of a high shelf. The best part was that it was on sale so of course I took it home with me.

I love the funky geometric print with the red, purple and tan color combination. The bag also has nice touches like “hh” stamped on some of the hardware.

My only complain is the sometimes the straps slide out of the buckle and they fall off my shoulder, but I can probably find a way to fix this. I’m looking forward to less back pain and more comfortable NYC subway rides!

 

FOLEY+CORINNA SAMPLE SALE

Coming soon…what I bought at the most recent Foley + Corinna sample sale.

THE HAYDEN-HARNETT BAG ARRIVES!

My HH for Target bag arrived about a month ago and I was thrilled! The mustard/purple color combo looks even better in person than it did online. In person, it is more muted and rich. The hardware really shines on this bag and really makes it look nicer than something found at Target. The weak point is the PVC “leather” as always. At first glance it looks good, but I have a feeling it won’t wear very well. With all the room and all the pockets I’m thinking of using this as my “fancy” gym bag. I’ll be hitting the gym in style!

 

 

Patrick Nagel Luxury Jewelry Collection Coming 2011

So do you remember the cover of Duran Duran’s Rio album?  Yeah, we didn’t either, we had to look it up to see what the late artist Patrick Nagel’s work looked like and then we were like, “Ohhhhhh yeah, that guy.”

Well that guy’s widow Jennifer Dumas is teaming up with Character Vision and United Brands Worldwide to create a luxury jewelry collection inspired by Nagel’s 1980s artwork.  While there are no images as of yet as to what this collection might look like, it does prove that we’re still getting 80s throwbacks into today’s fashion culture.  It will be interesting to see the reaction to this new collection coming out in 2011.

London Parties For Fashion Week, With Dinner, Drinks, And A Few Well-Placed Torsos

You don’t get to much shopping in the course of a busy day of London fashion-week shows. But last night, two of the city’s marquee boutiques found another way to welcome fashion weekers to town: Over in Chelsea, Joseph was hosting dinner at the store’s Joe’s Café, and back in the center of town, Browns had set up shop in the Royal Academy vaults to celebrate the store’s launch of Club Monaco in the U.K.

First, dinner. Joseph served up a nicely British repast of beet carpaccio and sea bream, one partaken of by Charles Anastase, Pat McGrath, Tamara Mellon, and Katie Hillier, as well as acclaimed chef and British-cuisine cheerleader Mark Hix. Meanwhile, over at Browns, where the likes of Tracey Emin and Sophia Hesketh could be found, Hix’s team of mixologists from his pop-up Speak Easy were treating guests to high-class cocktails, including a dangerous dark-cherry-flavored concoction. The spirit at Browns was a bit more Frenchified: The party’s host was Lou Doillon (left), and Le Baron’s André Saraiva had hopped the Channel to deejay. Or perhaps the mood was more transcontinental, what with Club Monaco being an American-owned brand, and the after-party going down at London’s recently opened outpost of the Box. Welcome to the global village.

Best to down another cherry cocktail, stop thinking about geography, and start looking at the art decorating the scene. The Royal Academy vaults had never before been opened to a private event, and the sculpture-strewn space may have been the real star of last night’s party. Vaguely creepy and seriously cool was the general verdict, and designer Saloni Lodha, who had presented her collection the previous day, was already making plans to relocate her show to the Royal Academy next season. “You think they’d let me do it?” she mused, staring up at a bank of muscular stone torsos hanging off one wall. “I mean, I don’t even know how Browns managed to pull this off. I didn’t even know this was down here!” As Doillon might have noted, après moi, le deluge.Prada

Meet Corrado Di Biase, Paris’ Next Designer To Watch

Puglia native Corrado di Biase started his career ten years ago designing shoes for Fendi in Rome. And after clocking time in the shoe departments of some of Europe’s best houses—including YSL (where the Tribute was introduced his second season) and John Galliano—he struck out on his own. Di Biase returned to Rome last season to present his first couture collection as a special guest of Sylvia Venturini Fendi, the newly appointed president of Rome’s Haute Couture syndicate. This season, di Biase is debuting his first ready-to-wear collection at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on March 1.

How did you get your start?
After my studies, my dream was to go to Paris and do ready-to-wear. I sent a ton of letters—everyone said it was easy to get an internship there, but it wasn’t. Valentino and Fendi were the only two truly international houses in Rome at the time, so I sent my CV there. Frida Giannini was designing bags for Fendi at the time, but she had no room on her team, so she passed me along to the shoe design team. So I didn’t choose shoes, they chose me.

How does shoe design inform your process for ready-to-wear?
Not to sound pretentious, but when you are a shoe designer you can design anything. There’s not the same range of possibilities with bags—you can make them in precious leathers or nylon. Shoes require a special mix of technique and creativity. If you pick up on clothing details, they have to be concentrated on such a small space. And then there’s the practical side—you have to be able to walk in them (even if at Galliano we do crazy shoes just for the show).

You have to have a beautiful object and a proportion that is really, really perfect—it’s almost like watch-making; all the pieces have to work together perfectly. When you buy clothing from H&M and you put it with an Alaïa belt and a beautiful jacket, no one knows it’s H&M. Shoes are a different story. To look beautiful, you have to have beautiful shoes. And it gives confidence like no other piece of clothing. It’s amazing when you do shoes; you realize how much they can change a person.

Knowing shoes makes things easier, because it makes you more of a perfectionist. You look at all the little details. My coat with a whalebone shell (pictured) was the first thing I did for the collection, and I instantly zoomed in on the stitching and zippers because the slightest variation jumps out at you. You see everythingBurberry Handbags

MObama Flies (To) The Koop; Versace Gets Versus; Terry And Gaga, Together Again; And More…

The latest Beltway power struggle is taking shape—and this one’s got nothing to do with elected office. As has been rumored for months, Chicago boutique owner Ikram Goldman is no longer Michelle Obama’s “shopper in chief”—that duty now falls to her former assistant, Meredith Koop. [Washington Post]

Versus’ fortunes have been on the rise these past few seasons, thanks to the buzzy partnership of Donatella Versace and Christopher Kane (left). So take it as a vote of confidence that Versace has regained full control of the label from its former licensee—and another good reason to look forward to Sunday’s Fall show. [Vogue U.K.]

Go behind the scenes at Gaga’s Terry Richardson shoot for NY skate brand Supreme. Well, if you insistFendi Handbags