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three of the best
Luxury
Shopping Bags
— Heavy-duty shopaholics such as ourselves often end up with
more shopping bags than we know what to do with. This, in
turn, has made of us experts of some sort in the art of luxury
packaging, to the extent that we now sometimes look more
forward to receiving the packaged goods than the actual goods
themselves. In the following of our series on visual goodies, we
bring you three of our favourite luxury shopping bags… and
those we simply couldn’t leave out.
Writer Nicholas Lewis
2.
Maison
Martin Margiela
Name
The Subtle
Designed by
Creative Director
Martin Margiela
Made of
Cloth
Made in
France
Comes in
Extra small, small, medium
and large
Why we chose it
For its confi dence and simplicity
What we’d fi ll them up with
Margiela’s Eleven Dollar Bill
wallet and white violon-shaped
canvas bag
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1.
Delvaux
Name
The Eye-Catcher
Designed by
Creative Director
Didier Vervaeren
Made of
Paper,
with Silver Aluminium Varnish
Made in
Belgium
Comes in
Extra extra small, extra small,
small, medium, large and extra
large
Why we chose it
For its subdued glossiness
What we’d fi ll them up with
Delvaux’s glazed goat Coquin
MM bag and their Triangle
Boulevard silk scarf
3.
Chine Collection
Name
The Innovator
Designed by
Creative Director
Guillaume Thys
Made of
Paper
Made in
Belgium
Comes in
Small, medium and large
Why we chose it
For its texture and elegance
…and those we simply couldn’t leave out (clockwise from left):
Diesel, Olivier Strelli, Essentiel, Francis Ferrent, Own, PH, Balthazar, Hermes, Houben, Zadig & Voltaire
What we’d fi ll them up with
Chine Collection’s linen cotton
trench and silk linen dress