Handbags Designed in Italy
Why Stylish Women Crave Italian Designer Handbags
If you’re a woman about town, given a choice between a racy car and a designer handbag, odds are you would pick the latter without batting an eyelid. Stunningly enough, research shows that designer handbags top a urban woman’s wish list that normally includes a perfect boyfriend, a luxury apartment, a sexy car, and an exotic annual vacation.
Why do women lust after handbags?
So what makes handbags special? Well, that might have something to do with handbag history: handbags were earlier concealed in a woman’s attire, and carrying one overtly was considered almost racy at one point of time.
Though now devoid of the overt quotient, handbags still retain an air of desirability because they are two things in one. On the inside, they act as a woman’s security blanket, by virtue of containing all her essentials from her make-up to her snack bar. On the outside, handbags act as her status symbol, visually telegraphing to all and sundry her status in society, her taste in fashion, even her state of mind on any given day.
Jessica Simpson and Victoria Beckham Wearing Gucci Bags
For instance, Jessica Simpson wearing the Gucci red handbag with loads of gold hardware is upping the ante on her casual daywear chic. On the other hand, Victoria Beckham is strutting out with a black Gucci handbag with gold buckles showing she is in control, businesslike, despite the aggressively sexy lace-and-leather black attire.
Jessica Alba sums it up very well: "Aside from the sheer practicality of something you can carry your whole life around in, a bag really pulls an outfit together. A great bag can make an everyday outfit something special."
Why designer handbags?
Jacqueline Onassis: Gucci Bag Jennifer Lopez : Fendi Spy Bag
Designer handbags do a great job as a woman’s status symbol, especially if these bags have already been photographed on the arms of a celebrity like Jessica Simpson or Victoria Beckham. An “it” bag is born every once in a while, and slowly becomes a classic over time, like the Jackie O bags by Gucci, or the Fendi Spy bags. Possessing a designer handbag is an ultimate triumph for any woman, and even those socialites who can afford closets full of designer handbags are still excited about buying limited versions of bags by famous design houses in France and Italy, and more recently, in the UK and the US.
What is so special about Italian designer handbags?
Though the ultimate in designer handbags come from French houses like Hermes and Chanel, Italian designer handbags can hold their own with the best of them because of the Italian penchant for lasting beauty and meticulous craftsmanship.
Italian fashion houses boast of some the most talented artisans in the world, and they work with good materials: gorgeous, butter soft leather, stunning python or other snakeskin, alligator skin, fabrics like top notch silks, velvet, and satin, and a whole host of man-made materials besides. Moreover, Italian designer handbags from renowned names like Bottega Veneta, Prada, Fendi and Gucci have as much history and prestige attached to them as some of the other luxury handbag labels.
Eva Longoria Wearing a Prada and Beyonce a Dolce & Gabbana Handbag
There are several Italian designer handbags worth the mention, and while some began as design houses of bags alone, others started their life as clothing labels which have now branched out into handbags and now doing very well indeed. Besides Bottega Veneta, Prada, Gucci and Fendi, there is Versace, Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Cavalli, Moschino, Miu miu, Valentino, Emilio Pucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Alessandro Dell’Acqua, among others. The various Italian designer handbag lines are coveted by socialites, movie stars, musical divas and fashionistas across the globe.
An upscale dowager and a fresh young thing in town can carry the same designer handbag and look equally great doing it, and this is perhaps the biggest reason designer handbags would remain popular for quite some time to come.
By Damyanti Ghosh, December 2008
