The enviable power of the Telfar shopping bag

A kiss on the hand might be quite continental, but a handbag is a girl’s (or boy’s) best friend. It is a known fact that a woman do carry an evening bag at dinner time, according to RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bob, the Drag Queen in her infamous song “Purse First.” Throughout the course of modern history, entire fashion subcultures have been built around designer handbags from the Chanel 2.55 to the Fendi Baguette, the latter of which came to fame thanks to “Sex and the City.” Each year, fashion designers duke it out in the accessories category for who will come through with the It Bags of the year.