I really like the book Handbags: The Power of the Purse in paperback which you can get from Amazon.com.
Book Description For Those Interested:
The book celebrates the must-have accessory for the fashion conscious
woman, Handbags is an obsessive, irresistible visual
extravaganza, featuring over 900 full-color photographs of the most
luxurious, witty, covetable, talismanic examples of the bagmaker's art
and history.
The iconic Hermés Kelly bag, made from first stitch
to last by a single craftsperson. Judith Leiber's whimsical minaudiFres,
Moschino's smiley-face bag, Elsa Schiaparelli's surrealist "bird cage,"
and the ne plus ultra of fashionable purses--the Chanel bag, reinvented
for a new generation by Karl Lagerfeld.
There are novelty bags, evening
bags, sculptural bags, and class acts. Practical leather pochettes to
carry a life, and elegant little reticules for nothing more than a
credit card and a lipstick.
Profiles of famous bagmakers: Jamin Puech,
Kate Spade, Carlos Falchi, and the poet of utility, Bonnie Cashin, with
her visionary "Cashin Carry" bags for Coach. Plus the anonymous
Florentine artisans whose specialist leather workshops sprouted up in
the 14th century.
A labor of love written by Anna Johnson, author
of Three Black Skirts, Handbags features over 900 bags
from collections, museums, and designers around the world, most of them
photographed in seductive full-color exclusively for the book.
Handbags is about
fashion, about desire, about secrecy, craftsmanship, art, and
imagination as well as about the changing roles of women--everything
that's packed into every important bag.
Includes timelines, fascinating
captions, and the "It" bags--anyone for a Fendi baguette?
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