JAPANESE WOODEN BAGS

As per usual, i left these images on my desktop for too long and now i have no idea where they came from... aside from that they were taken by a colleague of mine in Japan... so i'm calling them Japanese wooden bags.


They are pretty nutty and slightly architect (my derogatory term for 'over-designed')


... and slightly unuseable. I do think they they are great but i feel sometimes some designers design things for museums and art galleries more so than for real people.

I'm in a slightly off mood today so everything seems to look a bit try-hard.

Oh, just found the info on this brand : http://www.monacca.com/

CUPCAKE PURSE BY JUDITH LEIBER

These cupcake bags by Judith Lieber found on net-a-porter are slightly addictive to look at and very novel but overall quite irritating.


I saw these bags in a department store in Bangkok and they were super expensive. I can't remember how much but i remember gasping.


This is the kind of present you would buy for the 'woman who has everything', i would rather just get the money.




What the hell would you put in it. oh, i know, a cupcake.


i bet one day i will own one of these.

Versace Icon Tote

This has got to be one fo the uglist bags i've seen in a while, it sort of looks like someone has designed this Versace Icon tote by drawing a front view picture only. Do you think they could have rammed any more bling or wierd ugly shapes into one front face of an innocent tote bag?

Mulberry and Julie Verhoeven

Mulberry has teamed up with artist Julie Verhoeven on both apparel and accessories. And purely judging from their bags, i dare to say it looks like a marriage made in hell. The apparel seems to work a treat but the shopper bag with the stuck on graphic looks like a bit of an afterthought - a disasterous encounter between Chanel and Lulu Guinness in an asda aisle.


In the past Mulberry have had some wicked collaborations like with Giles Deacon in SS07 where Mulberry's S&M direction was truly sexy and edgy. I am totally open to disagreement, please post your comments here! So, sorry Julie Verhoeven and Mulberry but this one has to go in my irritating bag section.


Please! Honestly?


I know its going out on a limb to say i don't rate this bag given that its been getting so much great press, but lets just say it as it is here. All i can say is that i'm waiting in anticipation for Mulberry's next collab.

Irritating Trinkets

These little Louis Vuitton purses and keyrings are so french in a bad way. The little cutesy 'petit prince' porter man does my head in. I think i'd just prefer just the coloured stripes but even then i don't like Louis' monogram epi-leather in the first place.

This Prada bear keyring is not so much irritating in execution, its just slightly irritating that prada can make a flattened little teddy bear with a few sequence on it and then charge over £100 for it. I'm glad i didn't get one for xmas.

Marc Jacobs, don't do it!

Why do amazing designers sometimes decide to design really ugly bags? I found this bag here on fabsugar and i'm not sure what the writer is not sure about, its plain ugly and i don't think seeing it in real life would make any difference. View some of the comments about this bag here. How can the golden boy of accessory design come up with something like this. My theory is that someone designed behind his back for some specific market that he thought no one would care about. I think you're only as good as your last design. Don't do it Marc Jacobs!

Paul Smith what have you done?

Paul Smith. What have you done? You normally do such nice stuff. This bag looks like its covered is psychodelic puke after a bad trip. The shape is clunky and unoriginal. Yuck.

Radley

Radley. I'm not sure why, but Radley bags annoy the hell out of me. Maybe its because they are too perfect. Maybe its because they have no soul. Sorry to anyone who loves Radley (i'm sure there are alot of you out there) but Radley is irritating.

Maybe its that f*ing little dog. However, you have to admit the leather quality is very nice.