- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; illustrated edition edition (Sep 23 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0761123776
- ISBN-13: 978-0761123774
- Product Dimensions: 15 x 10.2 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #157,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Bolide. The Plume. The Birkin--object of lust in Sex in the City. Celebrating 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 Herm??s 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. The perfectly matched complement to Shoes, 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?
About the Author
Anna Johnson started her career at nineteen as a journalist with Stiletto magazine. She writes for Vogue Australia, Vogue UK, Cond?? Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, and Elle. Currently she's dividing her time between Sydney and New York.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
one size does not fit all!,
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This review is from: Handbags: The Power of the Purse (Paperback)
A big celebration of those containers in which we store all manner of useful things we think we'll need away from home, & which we hang from our arms & shoulders. This book comes in a handy bag-sized packet offering photos of the spectacular, the artsy, the bon ton & the whimsical.The names of the handbag makers read like a who's who of haute & not so haute couture - from a 5th century Scythian pouch to Priscilla Snyder's Dragon grip. From European almsbags to imperial beaded evening bags; from pocket books & long pockets from 17the century American women to tapestry French bags & Ottoman reticules from the early 1800s. From pirate chests of the 1930s to wicker bags of the 1950s. From the supercalifragelistic colors & patterns of the 1960s to the leather & tooling of Turkey. From a Hermes saddlebag to a Vuitton bucket shoulder bag of today, see what has inspired & who have crafted these essential accessories. A fascinating, informative, colorful & well presented archive.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fasinating/quality book,
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This review is from: Handbags: The Power of the Purse (Paperback)
The book surpassed my expectations. It includes lots of amazing handbags, tells fasinating history of handbags. It is written in beautiful and sometime peotic languges. Everything makes it more than a great read and makes you appreciate the beauty handbags can offer even more. I bought two more copies as gifts to friends.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A bag addicts dream...,
By Ms. H. Sinton "dragondrums" (Ingleby Barwick. U.K.) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Handbags: The Power of the Purse (Paperback)
This is a wonderful little book all about handbags....and it's small enough to slip into your bag! Full of gorgeous photos of all kinds of bags, from the funky, fun type to the serious office bag and from the beaded extravaganza to the funtional tote. It also gives a brief history of bags and some background info on some of the designers. A handbag addict will love this book.
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