Rebound Designs takes vintage hardcover books, adds beautiful
fabrics, hand beading and hardware and the result is a purse of bookish
originality.
With classics like Shakespeare, Austen, Dumas or beloved pulp fiction like Nancy Drew mysteries to choose from, you'll have a tough time choosing just one of these novel bags to covet.
The Three Musketeers purse $145 @ Rebound Designs
I can't help it: Japanese cartoon kitsch is totally my thing. Well, ONE OF my things. Let's not get reductive here, m'kay?
Hence my love for this cute leatherette cake handbag. Can't you just see Hello Kitty or one of her fluffy, adorable friends carrying that around? I mean, if you imagine that sort of thing. Not that you would. Or that I do. At all. cough.
Cake Handbag, £11.99 @ Toyko Jazz Panda
The name of this bag -- "Bungalow 360 Barbie Whales Vegan Canvas Bag" -- pretty much says it all (except I don’t get the Barbie reference, do you?). I bought this bag almost 2 years ago and use it for a minimalist gym bag -- a small tote for when I take the kid some where, or when I go shopping and want to look stylish (yet animal loving!) . It is really comfortable and people always ask me where I got it. I am all about style AND attention.
Whales Vegan Canvas Bag, $27.95 @ Alternative Outfitters
Guys have difficulties with bags. Laptop bags, diaper bags, whatever - they have trouble finding bags that are suitably manly without being unmanageable, and even when they do find one, they constantly worry that their bag is somehow girly. Every man fears the murse (man-purse). It's like a law of nature.
Defy Bags, however, defy that law. There are no murses here, nor anything that could possibly be mistaken for a murse. These are hand-crafted, hand-sewn, manly-man rugged duffle bags that could carry anything from laptops to diapers to tranny heels without looking the slightest bit girly (I mean, dudes. A bag with a big image of Johnny Cash flipping the bird? Diametric opposition to anything remotely feminine in form or spirit. In the awesomest way.) So what if I would buy the Skullbury Bag for myself? Like the old Irish Spring commercials said, we like it too.
Defy Bags, from around $150.00 @ Defy Bags
For the record, I don't actually do yoga, so a yoga bag would be useless to me, and, actually, I prefer Debi Mazar's bag (Courtney Cox's isn't bad, either), but whatever. It's still kinda cool that they did some high-end (Swarovski crystals, yo) bag bedazzling for charity.
Proceeds from the auction of Miley's, Courtney's, Susan Sarandon's and others' bags will go to the Libby Ross Foundation, for breast cancer research.
You can check out the auction HERE.
Celebrity Swarovski Yoga Bags, open bidding starting at about $100, @ eBay
So, this particular bag doesn't work for me, because I have one of those big-assed jumbo laptops that doesn't fit in anything, but this just struck me as so cool and pretty and generally awesome that I had to mention it.
It's a Lapsac, and it looks nothing like a laptop bag, and could quite easily pass as a sweet little soft-sided shoulder bag that just, you know, happens to contain something hi-tech. For those days when your first priority is to be out and about looking fabulous, but you'd still like to have the option of dropping whatever else it is that you're doing and geek out in a cafe somewhere. Which is most days, isn't it?
I CAN ONLY DREAM.
Persida Lapsac, $58.00 @ Delight.com
Seriously. Is there really any better way of proclaim one's devotion to la verde vita than with Kermit? Granted, he's not actually green on this tote bag, but you could totally get some fabric paint and DIY. And then you'd have an organic cotton Kermie tote bag featuring your mad DIY skillz, and is there anything cooler than that?
I think not.
"Think Green" Organic Cotton Kermit Tote, $38.95 @ Delight.com
Afraid being eco-friendly means succumbing to the scourge of crunchy-granola-y Dead Headesque style? (shudder) Well fret no more, cuz being green has gone modern, baby! Check out this sweet bag made from 100% recycled plastic -- not only thoroughly stylish, but VEGAN-FRIENDLY, PEOPLE. See, you can save the planet AND be totally hawt and patchouli-free, too! (wipes sweat from brow)
Starbright Satchel made from recycled plastic, $38.75 @ Delight.com
I'm ordinarily not one for flowery prints in any incarnation - not clothes, not scarves, not bags, not anything (some exception is made, however, for shoes with any kind of cherry blossom print. Can't explain why, it just is.)
But, you know, throw a funky bag with a cool, sort-of-geometricish shape to it and a grannyish print of paisley and pansies (pansies!) in front of me, and I could change my mind.
Sweet Life Bag, $95.00 @ Amy Butler Designs
I saw this bag at the MoMA store when I was in New York the other weekend, and thought it was pretty awesome. It's made from the pull tabs of over 1600 recycled soda cans, which is a lot of soda, and a lot of aluminium that would otherwise end up as landfill. But, you know, I'm not gonna spent $160 on some bag just cuz it's eco-friendly. It's gotta look good, which this one does, and have, like features, yanno?
Is bullet-proof a feature?
Masha Bag, $160 @ Re-Modern
I need a new laptop bag. I need a good laptop bag. I have a cute Ben Sherman bag, but it a) is a bit snug for my 17" inch laptop (what can I say? I like 'em big) and b) got kinda banged up when I fell down recently running for a train (what can I say? Am clumsy. Hence need for proper laptop bags.)
My specs are pretty flexible: it needs to accomodate a larger laptop, it needs to also be able to fit peripherals, a cell phone and a New Yorker or two, and it needs to not be hideous. If it were actually pretty - which is to say, not industrial black canvas - that would be a super-awesome bonus.
You has cool laptop bags? SHOW ME THEM.
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