damier uzes

I am a complete bag freak. I love designers, I love the details, I love soft, buttery leathers, and utilitarian toiles and nylons. For me, it's the whole effect, not just one aspect or another. The lining of a bag should be just as interesting as the outside of a bag...or at least fit in with the overall design scheme. And it should never look cheap. But besides that... I am a big Louis Vuitton fan. Not in the traditional sense...I own only one small accessory that is monogram canvas (brown with yellow Ls and Vs), and I rarely fawn over the typical and boring (read: speedy). But Louis Vuitton regularly releases bags that are so delicately precise in their decor...its quite amazing. Hermès makes beautiful things with simple leathers and skins, and by-hand (read: time-consuming) construction techniques, but there is a place and a time for H, as there is a place and a time for LV. I tend to like LV, just because Marc Jacobs throws everyone for a loop every season...there is always something new and different. (But at what cost to the brand image? We'll find out sooner or later). For the moment, his stuff is pretty brilliant, and it sells, and I like most of it (although a gent named Paul Helbers does the menswear).

My current obsession is the damier canvas uzes tote:


I used to feel really girly with totes, but lately they are the easiest bags to just throw all my crap in, and cart to class...much easier than messing with zippers and backpacks...plus all my other bags are pretty form over function (read: too small).

Anyway, I like this one a lot. I think it goes for $1500...maybe more. I can't seem to find it on vuitton.com or eluxury.com, but I know it's out there!

I also like the Altona PM, as a briefcase...it would be sorta fun to have for class...maybe a little dressy, but still fun. Not too dressy, since it's checkered...