In the museum of fashion history that lives in my head, there’s a hall of It Bags. Right between the stiletto staircase and the Elsa Peretti reflecting pool, a long sunlit corridor of purses ...
Irene Kim: Juicy Couture was an iconic part of early 2000s fashion. Its velour tracksuits and matching oversized bags were everything and everywhere. But Juicy went from making $605 million in ...
Some bags, from the likes of Hermès, Chanel and Louis Vuitton, have even experienced a valuation spike of an average of 83% in the last ten years. To put that into context, coins have increased ...
Mine began with a navy nylon Prada purse, salvaged from a Boston thrift ... arch, even aloof. The bag, I reasoned, would lead the way. That fall, I slung it against my shoulder like a shotgun ...