Strange as it sounds every lady would do the strangest things, just to get their hands on a designers handbag. There are sacrifices that would need to be made in order to be able to afford a Louis Vuitton Neverfull MM gorgeous iconic bag with a hefty price of $1,260.00.
Image by Louis Vuitton
What would you do just to get your hands on a handmade Hermes Birkin Bag (price upon request)? This bag is currently in fashion as a symbol of wealth due to its high price and use by celebrities. Its prices range from $10,500 to $150,000.
These days we’re prepared to spend more on a handbag than a holiday or even a car – and we want the rest of the world to know it.
Why do we love bags so much? Why do we need more then one?
A women’s love for designers handbags is comparable with a men’s love for sports cars. One would never be enough!. In my opinion we love designers handbag not only because we find it beautiful, but because it adds to a certain status, you belong to a certain group. The designers handbag is the ultimate statement to your outfit, you can have a t-shirt and a jeans on and if you have a designers bag in your hand you suddenly look different.
According to an article in dailymail.co.uk, if we have to go back in time we can get a pretty good idea why handbags became so popular.
“Two hundred years ago, a woman’s role was largely domestic and she would keep her belongings in a purse tucked into the folds of her clothes.
But as women started leaving the home, both for leisure and work, bags became a useful way of carrying their possessions.
Rail and sea travel caused an explosion in the popularity of fashionable luggage such as suitcases, dressing cases, hat and shoe boxes – out of which the modern leather handbag developed.
It’s no accident that many of today’s most luxurious handbag design houses, such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Prada and Hermes, originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as travel became more common. Then, as women gained financial independence, so the handbag industry flourished out of all proportion to its humble.”
If you follow history here, nothing has changed since women started leaving their homes. Today women have more financial freedom and can afford to have more then just one bag, and we still need it to carry around all our possession.
Celebrities and media have further increased the popularity of bags, and this has not gone without notice as the big handbag design houses are using this medium to market their product and make them even more irresistible.
The big question still remains…why do we love handbags? I am convinced that women love them because it makes them belong!
Click through the gallery below to see handbags from different collections for the fall 2015 season.
