This season fashion for bags is quite frivolous, cheerful and sentimental at the same time. That’s why general moods have rather optimistic tone. Elegant and rectangular shape does not go away from collections of leading fashion houses. Typically, this is an accessory of business style, which is characterized by minimal decoration, high quality expensive leather, calm dark shades (black, brown, dark blue). But there are exceptions, when classic silhouette is combined with sleek style. For example, Fendi proposed a handbag of rigid traditional rectangular shape, but of a bright yellow silk with satin embroidery, in oriental style and decorated with semiprecious stones.

Fashion bags: trends. Nancy Gonzalez, Bottega Veneta, Donna Karan went the other way. Retaining the classical form of small rectangular bags, they used crocodile skin carefully trimmed with the help of modern technology. This traditional silhouette is modernized with metal finish, decorative buckles and rivets. Incidentally, crocodile leather, like snake, lizard, ostrich and other exotic animals leather is in general very popular this season. Exception is made for that sort of black and white classics. Since today white is a favorite at the world’s catwalks, it requires a special approach to accessories. Lancel, which offers a purse of geometric shape from classic 60’s is the closest to classics, it harmoniously combines white and black rectangles. Gucci is little further from classics, but you can safely take such handbag to the office: black suede in the form of a rectangular purse is decorated with black leather and metal rivets. Fendi offers a more modern shape - soft and round - flower ornament is embroidered with thin strips of black leather.

Marni, Hogan, Givenchy, Coach, Dior offer a soft silhouette of bags, often in the shape of a wallet on a very long and wide soft handle, which is put across, through the neck; a combination of pieces of leather in different colors and even different finishes (smooth or velvety pile), decorative stitching, a combination of leather and suede. Ungaro, for example, offers just a classic version of knapsack of pink invoice python skin in combination with sand suede with a long fringe and tassels made of suede. Handle is made of thick and soft surround cord. Vuitton presents a bulk bag in patchwork technique, where together with traditional LV monogram, we can see funny applications in the life of turtles. Tom Ford for Gucci presents a bulk bag of pastel-caramel-cream color with a large floral pattern, as if from melted chocolate.

Fashion bags: trends. Galliano knapsacks are made from fish silky skin, and Dries Van Noten collection offers quite romantic knapsacks made as if from oriental rugs. A hint of antiquity is felt in bags fashion not only in the form of ancient oriental carpets and many retro-silhouettes. Artificially aged leather still remains true. Bags by Celine, for example, look more like business bags from our moms and grandmothers. These bags have strictly rectangular or square shape. Double handle of average (or short) length is very comfortable and functional, as, indeed, rectangular bottom. Materials and colors can be different. Fendi offers denim and light leather, which gives a bag a distinctly sporty style. At Longchamp presents transparent plastic with stitched leather strips and handles. Naf Naf shows striped cotton (red, white, beige, black pinstripe) with a plastic knob. Strenesse Blue gives a combination of felt and leather with leather trim, zipper in the form of leather strap and two comfortable leather handles of medium length.

Softness, volume and a certain romantic formlessness dictate a certain style of decorative finishes in such fashion bags. Here, any materials and number of elements are relevant. For example, they even encourage excessive exuberance of a variety of chains, beads, sequins, fringes, belts, metal rings. Coloris offers quite psychedelic flowers in French impressionists style, which shapes can still be guessed. Celin presents still large, but traced stylized flowers in lilac and brown scale on bags of rigid rectangular shape from thick canvas. Blumarine shows sweet colorful flowers on a handbag from crimson suede.

Another fashion bags trend, calculated rather to fans of a certain style - is the use of prints in a variety of inscriptions. For example, John Richmond presented bags with handles in the form of metal chains and with a pattern on a black leather in the form of inscriptions, as if caused by ordinary paint-brush with white paint. Longchamp proposed bags from oilcloth leather with prints in the form of newspaper texts. Thus any handbags in any style are distinguished by a variety of decorative elements. Among the most popular: a variety of metal buckles (Fendi, Prada, Tod’s), embroidery (red lobster from Chloe), crystals, sequins, and long, thin feathers (Valentino), fringe (Lacroix, Veneta), and bugle beads, brooches, lockets, cameos ( Beth Frank), and even diamonds and pearls (Harry Winston).

Such love and meticulous finishing of such trifles like handbag proves once again how great its value is for any of the fair half of mankind.