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Handbags: The Power of the Purse
by Anna Johnson

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

The Bolide, the Birkin, buckets and baugettes. Moschino's smiley-face bag and Judith Leiber's whimsical minaudières. Venetian vs. Bohemian beads. The history of the handbag and the history of style. With over 900 full-color photographs, Handbags is an exravagance of desire, secrecy, humor, fashion, craftsmanship, art, and exhuberance.

Review:

"Anna Johnson is the Dr. Joyce Brothers of the purse world. Don't even think about buying another bag until you have inhaled every clasp and clutch in this book." Simon Doonan, The New York Observer

Synopsis:

With over 900 colour photographs and illustrations, this title provides a visual feast of handbags. The author reveals the trade secrets of designers in interviews, capturing the "It" bag that defines a period of decade.

Synopsis:

Celebrating a must-have accessory for the fashion-conscious woman, "Handbags" is an irresistible visual extravaganza, featuring over 900 full-color photos of the most luxurious, witty, examples of the bag maker's art and history.

Synopsis:

The Bolide. The Plume. The Birkin--object of lust in Sex in the City. Celebrating the must-have accessory for the fashion conscious woman, Handbagsis 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 Hermand#233;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, Handbagsfeatures 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, Handbagsis 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

How the Bag Was Born

CLASS ACTS: ELEGANT ICONS

NIGHT CREATTURES: THE EVENING BAG

SCULPTURAL CHIC: SHAPE and STRUCTURE

OBSESSIVE ORNAMENT: THE DECORATED BAG

AMERICAN CLASSICS: SPORTY STYLE

NOVELTY and CA

Product Details

ISBN:
9780761123774
Subtitle:
The Power of the Purse
Author:
Morita, Eri
Author:
Morita, Eri
Publisher:
Workman Publishing
Location:
New York
Subject:
History - General
Subject:
History
Subject:
Fashion
Subject:
Handbags
Edition Description:
Restored/Uncut/
Series Volume:
150-101-686
Publication Date:
October 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
486
Dimensions:
4.08x6.04x1.11 in. 1.00 lbs.