particular bag, or the places and life events you carried her through (yes, ‘her’ – handbags are always female), or even how you lost her.
As London’s V&A prepares to open the most comprehensive handbag exhibition ever, we recall our best and brightest…I like to imagine myself as someone indifferent to ‘It’ things.
But let’s get real. Every major promotion or salary rise has been celebrated with a fancy bag. The first was when I was 20, working as a tour guide, leading American high-school kids around Europe in my university holidays.
The money (Americans are the best tippers) was epic and the kids, who were barely three years younger than I was, were so naughty/dissolute that by the time we got to Sorrento I was traumatised.
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