We celebrate everything. We celebrate a new zodiac year. We celebrate video game consoles turning x years old. We celebrate a franchise’s xth anniversary. Now, even bags, too. Hardgraft, makers of fine leather goods, is celebrating one particular bag’s 10th anniversary, the Offhand Shoulder Bag. This bag is a testament […]
In 2024, MSCHF (pronounced mischief) started a two-year-long provocative conceptual artwork centered on a real cow named Angus. It is one of the most conscience-provoking and profound projects by the Brooklyn-based American art collective. Background MSCHF bought Angus and presold him as 1,200 hamburgers and four leather handbags, represented by […]
Hermès is an honest-to-goodness fashion brand. It does not usually take the novelty route that turns heads like, say, Balenciaga. OK. Maybe sometimes. But that is not the point. The point is that it is a brand you look to for classy, well-designed products, not shock value. That’s that. But […]
Have you ever looked at a binder clip and gone, “Damn, I wish it could be many times larger so I could use it as a bag.” If you do… first of all, that’s a weird but interesting desire, and secondly, you are not alone. Designer Siena Cho had this […]
Your neighbors cannot stop being huge showoffs, always strutting their Tibetan Mastiff around the front yard and reminding everyone how it cost a small fortune of USD 10,000. Well, joke’s on them, because you can buy a way more expensive “pooch” that needs no caring—OK, maybe a little—and will never […]
You would think slapping an OLED onto a bag would become a thing if LV did it. Alas, LV is not Apple. As influential and as iconic as the Parisian fashion label is, it did not start a trend in 2019. Fast forward to 2026, and Peuty, a French startup, […]
High-end fashion houses have a long tradition of spotting mundane objects and thinking, yes, this could be luxury. Balenciaga did it. Tiffany did it. And now Hermès has joined the club with what might be the most unapologetically unnecessary flex yet: the Hermès Band-Aid Accessory. Yes. A Band-Aid. But no, […]
It looks like Louis Vuitton has been bitten by the Balenciaga bug. Or at least, the leather goods division has. It seems like the Parisian luxury goods company cannot get enough of head-turning, put-a-smile-on-people’s-face design. After letting fashionistas carry an airplane and a lobster around to contain their belongings, Louis […]
Basing on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, if Homo sapiens had been hanging around during the late Cretaceous period (that’s about 68 to 66 million years ago, give or take a meteor), they’d be firmly stuck at the bottom rung—hunting T-rex for dinner, not haute couture. Leather goods? Please. They’d be […]
If seafood-inspired handbags weren’t enough, Louis Vuitton’s Spring 2025 collection has something for tech nostalgists too. No, they haven’t launched a luxury MP3 player, but they have dropped a lineup of music-inspired leather goods that pay tribute to the golden age of portable audio. Leading the collection is the Music […]
According to Monie.ka and James, founders of the super cool leather goods company Hardgraft, the Masterpiece iPhone Case is their “very first design” after 18 years. Now, I swear that in between, they must have made at least one other iPhone case. But I guess the Hardgraft Bear Hug iPhone […]