Designer Handbags

Probably everyone knows and recognizes the name Coco Chanel. Born in French this designer was the first to come to a compromise between men’s and women’s clothes by creating a phenomenon called jersey-and-tweed suits. The new fashion for the first time offered women both comfort and haute couture style. But clothes were not the only passion of Chanel.

Coco made yearly visits to this beach during the 1920s, making it particularly appropriate for this set of retro-glam resort wear and beautiful evening dresses. And from these amateur visits once a bright idea came to her mind- taking into usage everyday, functional things and turning them into objects of art. Today designers Chanel keep chasing these idea.

Chanel’s gift to this idea is their Spring/Summer 2009 Essential Handbag. Modeled in Paris, the bags are produced in smooth calfskin in Chanel’s signature palette of black, white and pale pink. They come in three sizes – small for $1525, which is the only of the three available pale pink, medium for $2625, and large in $2995. In one hand these bags have reached their design goals. On the other one it’s not an easy task to get a piece of leather that large to be that smooth and also have the crisp corners and creasing of a thick-paper shopping bag, and the bag accomplishes that quite well. There exists some kind of inflexible structural surface over which the leather is stretched in order to create the extremely flat front and back panels.

This kind of bags can be found in different sizes, capable to enlarge even larger. So sometimes it will not even be possible to distinguish as a bag.

The price is quite dramatic, though it is a real hit.