The world of handbags is vast and ever-changing, especially when it comes to the current styles and types of bags available. Over the last few years, tote-sized bags have been the handbag du jour with celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Victoria Beckham using them as not only a fashion accessory, but a useful means of transporting gym clothes and baby toys, respectively. However, the tote is falling out of style, one report says.
According to SFGate, small bags are coming back to the forefront of style choices in women’s handbags signaling a movement towards more elegant fashion:
“The trend parallels a general shift toward more ladylike fashion, and may help generate sales in the handbag market, which grew 10 percent to about $10.3 billion in the year that ended in June, according to Coach Inc. Luxury sales are expected to rise 7.5 percent this holiday season, faster than the 6.7 percent increase a year earlier, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers.”
Coach is banking on smaller bags to bring up some major returns in the months to come, says the article. Other fashion houses like Prada and Dior are following suit, putting out advertisements focusing on the smaller bags in their collections. Louis Vuitton took their smallest bag and went even farther with the dimensions:
“Louis Vuitton’s Fifth Avenue flagship store this month displayed a top-handled $1,560 Lockit BB, which at 9.4 inches is more than a third smaller than the company’s Lockit model.”
As I mentioned last week, New York Fashion Week displayed some interesting concepts like men’s handbags, but the biggest story in terms of handbags was the presence of handheld bags all over the runways in the Big Apple. It looks like this trend in wholesale handbags is here to stay, at least until designers change their minds:
“The return of smaller bags may put limits on an oversize trend that began about 10 years ago and by the middle of the last decade had “hit the major leagues,” says Roseanne Morrison, fashion director of Doneger Group, a New York fashion trend forecaster. Women liked big bags in part because they could stuff in everything from their laptops to extra shoes.
Over time, however, the bags fell out of favor. On fashion blogs, women complained that the bags had become so large and heavy that it was like carrying around a boulder.”
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