Category: Footwear Culture

If you’re a luxury fashion lover, especially someone who loves handbags, Chanel is likely at the top of your list when you think of a brand that nails the novelty bag. And while Chanel has been making bags for nearly 100 years, its foray into the magical world of novelty minaudières is relatively recent. Chanel…

On the runway for Fall 2025, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simmons explored the idea of femininity in modern society and how it relates to the clothes we wear. In many ways, it was a continuation of Mrs. Prada’s dialogue between clothes and the people who wear them, one that is ever-evolving. The collection was bag…

The Gucci Horsebit has been a symbol of the Italian brand for over 70 years, and under Alessandro Michele and his successor, the Horsebit motif continues to shine. This year, Gucci celebrates 70 years of its iconic Horsebit bag, so it comes as no surprise that Gucci continues to breathe new life into the storied…

If you’re a fashion lover who’s chronically online—I’m talking you circle through a scroll rotation of Instagram, TikTok, Substack, Google News, and more—it’s likely you have a pretty good idea of what’s trending at any given time. That said, our devices and platforms are tailored to us, so we see more of what we like,…

Today we’re heading to LaLa land, to chat with a tech executive who’s been collecting designer bags since she was 17. Like many of us, her very first bag was a Louis Vuitton Speedy 25, which she got in Paris—what a dream! Still, CC 276 doesn’t attach much sentimental value to her belongings and believes…

A handful of years back, I reached a point in my life that genuinely shocked me—I was just not all that excited about bags anymore. Very few new bags enticed me to want to spend my hard-earned money on them, and I was reaching a point of bag fatigue, where the bags I owned were…

The Chanel Classic Flap is one of the most widely recognized bags in the handbag world—it has become synonymous with the House. Still, Chanel’s seasonal bags have been one of the most anticipated elements of its shows for over two decades, and this is all thanks to the late Karl Lagerfeld’s time at Chanel’s helm….

It was sometime in those dog days of the pandemic when London-based Jordan Bowen and Luca Marchetto of the brand Jordanluca were stopped dead in their tracks by an email in their inbox. Surely, it had to be spam? Hillary Taymour, founder of New York label Collina Strada, fished the email out of her junk…

Supermodel, muse, and forever style icon Kate Moss has proved time and time again that fashion has no age limit. Now, the 51-year-old model is back to remind us of this again, tapped by Anthony Vaccarello to star in Saint Laurent‘s Pre-Fall 2025 campaign. Moss was given free rein to showcase pre-collection fall 2025 through…

Alessandro Michele continues to push boundaries and fuse his own eclectic aesthetic with Valentino’s storied heritage. Michele’s Valentino is fun, fresh, and distinct, and when Michele took over the brand’s helm, it was instantly clear that a new era was beginning. One of the biggest bag launches of the year was also one of the…