Bags

Jacquemus Bag Guide: Minis, Clutches and Shoulder Styles

A Jacquemus bag is instantly recognizable for its playful proportions and clean lines. This edit sorts the Jacquemus bag by style, from tiny minis to clutches and shoulder bags. Find the shape that fits your day.

Balenciaga Rodeo Bag: A Beverly Hills Name With Close Neighbors

The Balenciaga Rodeo bag leads this edit, with its sizes followed by nearby Balenciaga shapes and Le City carryalls. I sort the family by scale, material and what I would actually take along.

Trader Joe's Inspired Tote Bags: Canvas, Contrast Handles and a 1944 Ice Carrier

These Trader Joe's inspired tote bags run from mini canvas shoppers to insulated grocery bags and big boat-style carryalls. I say which tote bag I would reach for on which errand and what to check before you carry it home.

L.L.Bean Tote: The Ice Carrier That Became the Maine Boat and Tote

This L.L.Bean tote edit covers the Boat and Tote in open-top and zip-top, tall and long-handled versions, prints and seasonal colors, plus minis and pouches. I keep coming back to how a bag made for hauling ice in 1944 now carries everyone's laptop.

BY FAR Shoes and Bags: The Pieces Worth the Price

BY FAR is the Sofia label two twin sisters and a friend started in 2016 to make leather shoes you could actually walk in. I like how it remembers the 1990s without dressing up as them, so this edit is the shoes and bags I would start with.

The Wolf Gang Dresses: What I'd Actually Buy

The Wolf Gang is an independent Adelaide label that began with a suede pouch and a tassel and grew into dresses, denim and bags with a lot of personality. I love a brand that dresses for the trip and the long lunch at the end of it.

VERAFIED Handbags: The Pieces Worth the Price

VERAFIED is the New York handbag label Vera C. Wang started in 2020, built on sculptural shapes and a refusal to rush. I like bags that have a reason for every curve, and these do.

Rebecca Minkoff Bags: Which Styles Are Worth It?

Rebecca Minkoff is the New York label that grew out of one bag designed for the morning after. I keep coming back to how practical her shapes are, with just enough downtown edge to make them mine.

florabella Bags: A Shopper's Guide to Best Buys

florabella is the Dallas resort label of raffia bags, wide-brim hats and cover-ups, started in 1998 and named for a woman who loved fashion and travel. I love a brand that packs a whole vacation into three accessories.

Stoney Clover Lane Bags and Pouches: What I'd Buy First

Stoney Clover Lane is the colorful travel-accessories label two sisters started from their bedroom floor in Palm Beach. I love that it makes organizing feel like dressing up, and this edit is what I would pack first.

Away Travel Bags: The Pieces Worth the Price

Away is a New York travel brand from Jen Rubio and Steph Korey, built around clean design and clever organization. I like the idea that a suitcase should be considered, and this edit packs the bags I would reach for first.

An Evening Clutch Can Change the Whole Exit

Shop evening clutches by texture and shape, from satin and braided designs to embellished jacquard and box silhouettes, and choose one standout detail.

Convertible Bags

One bag, several ways to carry it, from shoulder to crossbody to backpack.

Fortune Croissant Bag: The Lemaire Bag Shaped Like Its Name

The Lemaire Fortune Croissant bag is a curved, hardware-light shoulder bag in leather or wool felt, with just a strap and a zip. I go through how the two materials behave, the mini and medium sizes, and the version I would own.

Pura Utz

Anna Waller Andrés from Denmark and Bernabela Sapalú from Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, founded Pura Utz together, and the brand says it started in Bernabela's family home in 2018. The name means pure quality, pure good, and one beaded pouch takes two women three working days and 24,400 glass beads. This edit gathers the jewelry, clutches and pouches that come out of that workshop.

Emm Kuo Bags: Clutches and Handbags by a Parsons Trained Designer

Emm Kuo is the handbag and accessories label of Emmaline Kuo Ranzman, a Parsons trained designer who grew up between Taipei, Hawaii, New York and Hong Kong before launching her own line in New York after working for Catherine Malandrino and Stephen Burrows. The specific thing that makes it hers is the global material sourcing, with evening bags handmade in studios in the Philippines under sustainability practices like natural dyeing and water conservation.

Merlette

Marina Cortbawi, an Australian who had spent years running international sales for Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera, founded Merlette in New York in 2016 without any formal design training. She built the label around a gap she saw from the inside of those two houses, women who had evening wear covered but wanted seasonless, lightweight everyday clothes that traveled well.

Lié Studio: Copenhagen Jewelry and Bags From Twin Sisters

Lié Studio was founded in Copenhagen in November 2021 by twin sisters Amalie and Cecilie Moosgaard, former runway models who had walked for Gucci, Valentino and Prada before building their own label with business partners at Brand Institute. The specific thing that makes the brand what it is: a small set of core minimalist gold and silver jewelry pieces, designed by two people who by their own account were not natural jewelry buyers before they started making it themselves.

JW Anderson

Jonathan Anderson, a Northern Irish designer who trained at London College of Fashion and worked as a visual merchandiser at Prada, founded JW Anderson in London in 2008. The label made its name on a deliberate blur between menswear and womenswear silhouettes, an idea Anderson later called a shared wardrobe, and it built a cult following well before he was named creative director of Loewe in 2013.

Janessa Leone

Janessa Leone launched her eponymous hat line in Los Angeles in 2013, funded with personal savings from years of nannying while she considered law school. The origin story is oddly literal: on a trip to Paris she bought a vintage men's hat, opened the sweatband, and found the milliner's surname stitched inside, the same as her own.

Khaite Shoes, Bags and Accessories: Leather Pumps and Sandals

Catherine Holstein launched Khaite in New York in 2016 with backing from Adam Pritzker's Assembled Brands, after a first eponymous label she started as a Parsons student closed in the 2008 financial crisis and a five-year run designing for Gap, Vera Wang and The Elder Statesman taught her the parts of the business she'd missed the first time. The label opened on denim and cashmere knitwear before adding runway shows in 2019 and an in-house bags and footwear line the same season, and Holstein still designs under a name modeled on the Greek word for long, flowing hair.

The Boxy Bag Trend: Structured Totes, Buckets and Gold Clasps

This edit gathers structured trapeze totes, bucket bags, gold-clasp shoulder bags, box bags and mini totes with clean, boxy lines. I focus on useful proportions, sturdy details and easy ways to wear each shape this fall.

The Designer Bag Edit: Shoulder Bags, Totes, Minis And More

Two hundred designer bags, sorted by the way you actually carry them: on the shoulder, by the handle, as a tote, across the body, as a mini, a clutch or a bucket. I looked for the houses doing real work in leather, raffia and weave, and for the shapes that will still feel right in five years.

Bogg Bag Dupe: The Perforated Beach Tote Idea, From Other Labels

This Bogg Bag dupe edit gathers perforated, rubbery and waterproof totes from other labels that share the original's defining look. I would start with a firm base and tall handles, then add a charm.