Monday, August 9, 2010

To It or not to It, that is the question


Mirror mirror on the wall
who's the It-iest of them all?

So is Spanish design house Loewe (pronounced by the way as Lo-ay-vay and not Lo or Loee Or Loway) 's new-ish creative director Stuart Vevers onto a good thing? The ex-Mulberry head designer, in what is apparently a reactionary departure from every label's frenzied dash to 'bag' the next 'It' bag, is on a mission to design handbags that will stand the test of time. The 'papelle', touted as the first Anti-It bag is designed like an ordinary shopping paper bag and weighs less than 2 pounds. The caveat? It costs over $1000. Wouldn't it be simpler to pull out your faded old LL Bean or something instead?

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