Designers Handbags

Despite the fact that, as we reported last month, Louis Vuitton designer Marc Jacobs is getting sick of the fashion house’s frequent collaboration projects, director Sofia Coppola has just signed on to design a new capsule collection for the brand. Coppola, a close friend of Jacobs’ who recently appeared in a Vuitton ad (above) with her famed father Francis Ford Coppola, will reportedly create a range of handbags and shoes for the company. Though nothing’s been confirmed, it’s expected that the new collection will initially only be available in Japan like LV’s current collaboration with Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo.

“I’ve kind of warned everybody up there [at LV] that I think they’ve gotten a little too into this idea ,” Jacobs said of the collaboration projects just last month. “I’m glad that everybody gets behind it, but what they don’t realize is that I do it at a pace that maintains the brand’s integrity and seems really right, and I think that sometimes everybody loves a good idea so much that they kind of go too far and it kind of kills it.” Perhaps he’s making an exception for personal friends like Coppola.

We’ve featured Burberry Warrior bags before and since they’re always spectacular we now have another one to share, and this time it’s the Mini Warrior. Shown here in bright berry red leather accented with the traditional Burberry check pattern in happy shades of red, blue, and brown, it’s a bag that has a sophisticated but casually upbeat vibe. I love the warrior bag shape but was never crazy about the over-sized metal studs, so I’m happy to see that they’re miniaturized in this design.

It’s the Milton Hobo bag by Chloe in a bright metallic purple that although normally expected around springtime can fit just as easily into a fall ensemble by pairing it with other vibrant jewel tones and rich autumn neutrals. It’s fairly structured for a hobo, looking a little like a standard slouchy hobo bag sitting inside a bucket. Created of soft lamb’s leather with golden hardware this bag features one of fall’s hottest trends in the partial chain shoulder strap. Zips closed at the top and has two front slide pockets.

Get your fix of feminine ruffles while still coming across as sleek, modern, and sophisticated with Prada’s Nappa S Ruffled Clutch. It’s part of Prada’s fall runway collection and features tiers of big open ruffles on both sides reminiscent of a blouse with flouncy shoulders. The rest of the bag is fairly understated, featuring smooth nappa leather and a simple PRADA logo on the front, and although it’s advertised as a clutch it does have a shoulder strap to make toting it around more convenient.

Louis Vuitton collectors whose obsession knows no bounds may have a voyage ahead of them. As the NY Sun reports, the only way to get your hands on one of the Louis Vuitton handbags designed by Rei Kawakubo the avant-garde founder of Comme des Garçons is to visit the pop-up store LVMH has set up in the Comme des Garçons store in Tokyo. The store is open through December and only shoppers who go there can place an order for one of Kawakubo’s six designs. You cannot order by phone or internet and can only order one bag per person. And you don’t even get your bag until after the shop closes and the orders are put into production. At least you don’t have to trek pack to Tokyo to pick it up, the bags will be sent to the customer’s local Louis Vuitton shop.