Women Totes

Look, I can be totally honest? I know, I know, this is usually not my style, but today I will be honest and what I want to say is this: I may be a little in love with Anya Hindmarch, the designer and designer women totes that “I am not a plastic bag” canvas shopping bag. Now, I am also surprised by this turn of events as anyone? Christ, yes. I’m not even in handbags and, in general, I am quite contemptuous of women who are. Some days, grinning women who are in handbags is really all I do. (And it is more tiring than you might think. I’m exhausted by the evening.) But I do not understand those who are obsessed by the ‘designer’ bags, spend a fortune for them, and even go on waiting lists for ‘must-have “bag of the season. Must have or what? Your legs will fall. A handbag can never be as must-have as a hip joint, surely? So I do not expect to fall in love with Anya Hindmarch, and I did not expect to actually buy one of his bags, but here’s one thing I did both.

I want to say I do not know what got into me, but I think I do. I met Anya, I had lunch with Anya, I walked with Anya at his store on Sloane Street and because I was with her, and she is beautiful and so graceful, I just was not as petrified I might be otherwise – smart shops usually scare The Living Daylights out of me. I continue to fear for the safety of someone tapped me on the shoulder and ask: “Madam, you are lost? Poundland you looking for? “But without terror -” On the road, the road that crosses with Anya Hindmarch … “- I saw a handbag could be a wonderful beautiful thing. And its handbags are wonderful: all butter, baby-soft leather and glass-like patents, but never looked close-up front is the know-how and attention to detail TEENIEST makes me: the mini-pompoms leather attached to the zipper-pulls, the internal clip to your key Dinky; linings beautiful, the delicious smell of genuine leather, which, perhaps not surprisingly, very different odors to the smell of fake leather from a market stall. I feel the first stirrings of desire. I try to each bag in the shop more or less, and then think: ‘Shit, I’ll have one of these women totes. “I chose “Chantry, a patent tote in the most amazing blue Yves Klein in the sale reduced from ? 345 to ? 170, but when I take it to checkout Anya tries to give me a gift. Naturally, I protested. “Anya,” I said, if I knew I did not, I would have chosen a much more expensive. Give me one of these ? 1000 Ebury tailor, and faster than that !