HANDBAGS ( A Love Story )

Description

In this sumptuous, full-color compendium, award-winning designer Monica Botkier celebrates seventy of the most coveted bags of the past seventy-five years, from Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Hermès, Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, and other international couture houses . , as well as the best bag designers like Anya Hindmarch and Nancy Gonzalez.

Exquisitely crafted luxury handbags are an obsession. The look, the feel of soft leather, that new faint bag scent that causes you to pass out: a beautiful handbag does more than complete a look, conveys taste and elegance, and inspires envy, be it a Hermès Birkin, a quilted Chanel Boy bag with your exclusive gold chain or a Céline Mini Luggage handbag. Award-winning handbag designer Monica Botkier pays tribute to these magnificent objects of desire and to the best couture houses and artists who have designed and produced them from the end of World War II until today.