glamour.com
12.07.2024 / 20:43
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Cardi B Knows the Only Thing Better Than a Micro Bag Is a Bag Bigger Than Your Body
saw the mini bag trend and said, nah.There was a time towards the late 2010s when designers collectively refused to produce handbags bigger than the size of their palms. Simon Jacquemus was selling diminutive versions of his Le Chiquito handbags built to accommodate just a couple of credit cards, while Lizzo was posing on red carpets with a Valentino Garavani bag spacious enough to hold one singular tablet of chewing gum.In time, an oversaturation of “me and my patience” memes and fast-fashion knockoffs led to the Thumbelina bag’s inevitable mainstreaming, and fashion’s pendulum therefore began to swing in the opposite direction: towards “ludicrously capacious” alternatives.Kim Kardashian was papped with an obscenely gargantuan Birkin, Harry Styles with a sizable Margaux, and several NFL stars with hulking Amiri top handles, enormous Bottega Veneta totes, and jumbo Hermès bags.The status-signaling, in-your-face power bag is, it would seem, back.
