Designer Handbag Blog

With the prices of handbags increasing exponentially on a yearly basis, the counterfeit market has upped their game, cranking out replica designer handbags at too-good-to-be-true prices. If you are a handbag lover, you already know that the counterfeit handbag market supports some pretty shady dealings, from human trafficking to drugs and beyond. As a consumer, the best defence against unwittingly...

The trends for fall have now all been laid out before us. Color, fur, and all manner of embellishment are being shown right alongside more austere designs that channel the understated and luxurious minimalism of past seasons. It seems that designers are giving us a little of everything this fall, and with an invigorated economy that is trending towards a...

Call it what you will: burgundy, cabernet, oxblood - the list goes on and on. Name notwithstanding, the arrival of Fall always brings a fresh crop of burgundy handbags, and this season there are some standout specimens. Here are two of the most luxurious and user-friendly burgundy handbag offerings for Fall 2014. The Fendi Peekaboo Bag ($3,400) If you're looking...

One of the best barometers of how a handbag is going to perform for a brand is the celebrity market. Brands are always clambering over each other in order to outfit the hottest celebrities with their latest model of handbag for high profile events, and for good reason; the exposure that a bag will get on the red carpet will...

With the arrival of Fall, the trends we saw all over the runways months ago are just beginning to become available in the ready to wear retail environment. Among these Fall trends was a surge in the amount of fur being used in handbag designs; designers like Diane Von Furstenburg, Jason Wu, and even mass market retailer J. Crew are...

Leave it to the fashion industry to redefine not only how we want our handbags to look from season to season, but how we go about carrying them. While for the most part, many of us have assumed that a handbag was meant to be carried by the handles that are attached (or perhaps detachable) to the outer portion of...

There isn’t a handbag enthusiast alive who wouldn’t recognize the classic patterns of the Louis Vuitton brand; these classic coated canvas handbags (especially the Monogram and Damier lines) have been in production since the late 1800s, and are instantly recognizable. But what exactly is coated canvas? It comes as a shock to a lot of people when they find out...

This fall, the trends in handbags and accessories have proved to be a bit of a game-changer. While in seasons past the most memorable accessories have quite predictably been one or two coveted “it” bags from designers such as Céline, Mulberry, or Valentino, this year the accessories market seems to have broadened its definition of what covetable is to include...

At the beginning of the summer, British handbag company Mulberry, shocked us all with their public announcement of the alterations they would be making to their pricing structure; an across the board slashing of their baseline prices as a response to sales figures that were in a perilous freefall. The state of the economy notwithstanding, this news still managed to...

For the most part, trends in handbag design are pretty accessible; it doesn’t matter what dress size, height, or age you are, a handbag is one of the most forgiving fashion items out there. But that is not to say that there have not been handbag trends over the years that have been, shall we say…favoring the difficult side of...