I don't know about you, but I've always been captivated by these ultra-cool and stylish girls (Caroline de Maigret, to name just one) who show up without any bags on all their dates. You know, the ones who walk around with their hands in their pockets, with that cheeky je ne sais quoi, which proclaims that they have unprecedented freedom of movement. Either.
Another fascination: this surge of micro bags (thank you Jacquemus Chiquitos) that we saw everywhere in the summer of 2021, these tiny formats certainly highly desirable but totally improbable, and above all above ground. I admit, I succumbed and bought some very pretty mini UFOs - but which I obviously never wore, even in the evening. Because how can you fit all your essentials into 3 cm³? Add to this that if you are a smoker, farsighted and hypochondriac (me, in short), the affair is a feat. Where to store your Nurofenflash 400, your cigarettes and your glasses? I'm not even talking about bike keys, the right lip balm and other small fry of the day.
So imagine my delight when I saw that it was now fashionable to wear not one, but two bags every day (a trend validated, among others, by Bottega Veneta). With the boom in teleworking, it is common, I also read, to add to your handbag a tote containing computer, insulated bottle, urgent documents and anything lying within reach on desks that you 'we must carefully tidy up every evening, if, like me, we are in flex office... We leave and leave with our two bags, therefore. And since fashion is well done, the idea is to sign off your look by wearing small sizes to accompany your big shopping bag. Joy! I won't hide from you that I obviously took out my Lilliputian bags (finally!) and that, not having the means to buy the XL it-bags of the moment to accompany them (the Margaux from The Row, the shopping bags from Bottega Veneta or Phoebe Philo Studio), I opted for a leather model with a very chic minimalist design.
Some will see it as a new luxury in an enhanced version, others a mental overload, a sign of an injunction to perfection (did I take all my files and the youngest's Palmitos?) that is ever more burdensome...Me, personally, it saves me from thinking (where will I put an umbrella and a hat?). Which, you will admit, is also a form of cerebral relief that cannot harm your morale.