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The perfect ‘new’ handbag? An old one | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
In a rare moment of fashion sanity, brand-new bags are no longer the ones everyone is lusting after
We have lived through and lusted after the Paddington by Chloé, the Bayswater by Mulberry, Gucci’s Jackie bag, Dior’s Saddle and the Bottega Veneta Cassette. The Haribo-bright monogram on white, a Y2K-meets-pop-art take on the brown and gold classic Vuitton colours, looks as good now as it did when it was launched in 2003. Some bags turn out to have a Tardis-like ability to fit everything you need without looking as if you are carting luggage around: but you won’t know this until you’ve road tested it.
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