The ideal handbag ...

... has never really been necessity. It is the stuff of dreams, desire, and deliverance from the banal. It is that house in the country we can't affort embodied in Italian straw, it is a first kiss in cherry-red velvet ... A portable fashion objekt unperturbed by the changes of the body or the heavy hand of age, the bag is infinitely optimistic. We carry it, and it transports us into the lives we wish we were living. (Anna Johnson)