Dior has an advantage that only a tiny handful of other fashion houses enjoy. Because the brand resides at the very top tier of fashion houses and because it has a history so rich and storied that it’d make a marketer weep, Dior can not only make handbags out of the world’s rarest, finest exotics and expect to sell all of them, but the brand can make interesting, challenging bags that retail for $30,000 and expect to sell those, too.
In his time at Dior, Raf Simons has never shown much of a predilection for solid-colored bags, and that continues into this collection. Instead, colors shift in non-intuitive ways and combinations; some of them are pieced together from different materials, others are simply dyed.
Either way, it’s a challenging notion of what a luxury handbag can look like. So much of the industry relies on traditionalism to telegraph value, and although these bags come in familiar shapes, how they’re treated is thoroughly modern. Simons is doing the hard work of creating the notion of what a luxury brand can become, and the collections’ bags continue to be a big part of that.
[Photos via Vogue.co.uk]
slide 2 and 19, come to me.
When will these handbags be available in stores?
Generally fall collections become available in stores during the second half of summer!
Thank you very much Amanda. Love this collection????
Utterly feminine and utterly chic! Parisian style at it’s best. Thanks Amanda for starting my week on a delightful note!
You’re welcome! Couldn’t think of a better way to get Monday rolling than some Dior exotics.
2, 13, 19… GORG! 🙂 loving this shape!
Slide 19 – LOVE!!!
The purse that starts in slide 2 is beautiful. Love that shape! Can’t wait for the second half of summer and to visit these little beauties in person. Thanks!
I swear, you guys take the best photos of handbags on the runway.
I wish these were ours or we had Vlad photograph, because he really does! But these images are from Vogue UK
#16 – heart eyes emoji needed !!
omg the croc Lady!
Dior just does bags right!
could 1, 5, 6, 9, 12 and so on be blatant rips of a chanel boy bag?
I already see a problem with those saddle shaped bags (2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 13, 15, 19):
The flaps will sag in the middle if you carry too much things within the bags and hold it by the top handle. They should have kept the proportion of the top handles like Be Dior.
Slide 8 & 15 make my mouth water!
Nice style of the bag