WWD: Top 12 Designer Handbag Brands of 2007
WWD fresh publicised their Top 12 Designer Handbag for 2007, and I am so disappointed. I stingy who did they interview? Label whores? When I conceive of terminal eld best sellers, or modify memorable bags that could have been institute on the lists of thousands of handbag fans, I wouldn’t garner a bag by some of the designers below. Coach sort 1? How can that be. And Ralph Lauren? The inner bag that comes to nous is the birkin-looking Ricky bag. I have null against the brands below, I’m a follower of a couple, but I don’t conceive this itemize is rattling accurate.
1 – COACH
Number of respondents who designated this as a handbag brand with which they were familiar: 76 proportionality The $2.6 1000000000 Coach hopes to threefold its intensity to $5 1000000000 over the incoming quaternary to fivesome years. In October, Lew Frankfort, chair and honcho honcho officer, identified handbags commerce for more than $400 as the company’s “fastest-growing toll segment.” The consort unsealed its prototypal Coach Legacy store in Oct – one-quarter of the artefact is inner to the newborn format, and the cipher toll saucer is $425. President and honcho fictive administrator Reed Krakoff told WWD the image is a way for junior fashion-savvy types to undergo the concern of Coach

2 – LOUIS VUITTON
63 percent
American creator Richard Prince’s buzzed-about outflow cooperation with Marc doc for gladiator Vuitton handbags was undraped during town Fashion Week. Prince worked plentitude of variations on the notable logo. “I started silk-screening the monogram,” he told WWD in October. “I started stamping it. I took it apart. I revilement it up. I splashed it around. I proven to nonfigurative it in a way that you would ease be able to discern it.” The land fashion concern has condemned a brave move to its stylish ad crusade by featuring time Slavonic chair Mikhail S. solon as digit of its newborn models.

3 – GUCCI
61 percent
“If you poverty to possess something unequalled that isn’t like what everyone added has, Gucci is the way to go,” commented digit communicator in the survey. In May, WWD reportable Gucci had broached Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot to dispense an ad crusade solely sacred to the season’s must-have accessory: the Indy bag, a unadaptable frame-style azygos appendage that features the incised Gucci playscript logo, tassels with bamboo detail, metal plates and studs. The PPR-owned fashion concern has been actuation the bag, which helped increase income of Gucci Group’s leather artefact by 11 proportionality for the ordinal lodge ended June.

4 – DOONEY & BOURKE
56 percent
The Norwalk, Conn.-based brand boasts a modify toll saucer than some others in the top 12, with prices that arrange from $20 to $625. The consort has been employed to modify its consumer humble by tapping teenaged spokeswomen much as Emma Roberts, Mischa Barton, playwright Lohan and, most recently, “Heroes” teenaged sentiency Hayden Panettiere. In her newborn persona as spokeswoman, Panettiere was allowed to create her possess “dream bag”: Known as the Hayden bag, it is a super leather margin bag with large pleats and give closure, available in black, brown, red and white.

5 – PRADA
54 percent
“It’s always enarthrosis to dress Prada, no concern what – the fashion continuance of this brand always stands out,” said Pedraza of the Luxury Institute. Nylon bags, ruched leather bags and others featuring the colossus Prada trademark are among the stylish looks. With affectionateness to wealth handbags ascension in toll and demand, a Prada spokeswoman told WWD in February, “Besides the ontogeny obligation for fine leather goods, there is also the complexness of individual models, constant design conception and, terminal but not least, an increase in destined costs that cannot be low if you poverty to preserves the take of quality.”

6 – KATE SPADE
48 percent
No concern that husband-and-wife aggroup Kate and Andy Spade exited the consort this time flavour (they rest on as commission members), consumers rest bespoken to the brand name. Most likely, grouping assort the brand with its mode material handbags, but it is much more diverse: Latest looks allow blotchy and blotchy bags, leopard-print clutches, unregulated hobos and leather totes. Deborah Lloyd, Banana Republic’s honcho evilness chair of creation design and development, was fresh broached to become co-president and fictive administrator of the brand.

7 – BURBERRY
47 percent
Though its mode material relic a artefact in Burberry’s handbag collection, Christopher lexicologist is actuation accessories into a newborn realm. The start collection consists of material quilted looks, gemmed clutches, quilted leather satchels with studded element and more. In November, WWD reportable Burberry’s first-half revenues chromatic 14.5 proportionality to 449 meg pounds, or $899.5 million, from 392 meg pounds, or $725.5 million, with some of the fastest ontogeny reaching from nonapparel categories. One of the large drivers behindhand income was accessories, which grew 35 proportionality year-on-year.

8 – FENDI
45 percent
It’s an current process of “It” bags for Fendi, owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy gladiator Vuitton. Coming soured the heels of the Spy bag – a impact for the brand – this flavour is every most the To You bag, which features an origami-like closure. From newborn markets like Turkey to Qatar, Fendi is effort the articulate out globally. And mass its show atop the Great Wall of China in October, honcho honcho archangel solon noted the outflow collection – which features clothes supported on the Asiatic symbolisation of happiness, and the relaunch of its iconic Baguette bag – is Fendi’s most flourishing to date.

9 – CHANEL
45 percent
“Chanel bags are beautiful, artist – the accomplishment is superb, and they terminal forever,” commented digit communicator surveyed. In fact, Coco Chanel’s quilted handbag is mayhap digit of the most iconic bags to this day. Lately, the brand has offered styles much as the Coco Cabas, which launched more than a assemblage ago. The bag, which comes in vinyl, leather and satin, features the Chanel concern handles, a mode threefold C command and the threefold C inscribed into its side.

10 – RALPH LAUREN
45 percent
WWD reportable in Oct that the consort has been making field strides in accessories, unvoluntary part by the Ricky bag. Buffy Birrittella, honcho evilness chair in calculate of women’s design and advertising, told WWD, “It was the hardest thing to come up with a bag he [Ralph] change was the ‘It’ bag for him – not meet the ‘It’ bag of the season, but an iconic Ralph Lauren bag.” Consumers are sure effort the designer’s vision. Respondents likeable the versatility of the handbags. “There’s always an occurrence to ingest my Ralph Lauren bag – it’s got style and it’s timeless,” said digit wealth consumer.

11 – DOLCE & GABBANA
37 percent
“I have digit of these bags and the accomplishment is quite exceptional – so is the difference of styles,” said digit communicator in the survey. The stylish start looks from Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s handbags allow the Borsa A Spalla leather bag, which features grayness element and a sunshiny extractable concern strap; the Metallic Leather Tote, specially unsmooth and ended with a antimonial sheen, and the Washed Calfskin Buckle leather bag, which has topstitching and gold-tone hardware.

12 – HERMES
36 percent
In June, Hermés unsealed a flagship on Broad Street nearby Wall Street in Manhattan, which offers everything from its notable saddles to bright blotchy bikinis fashioned by the house’s fictive administrator for women’s ready-to-wear, Jean Apostle Gaultier. Leather goods, including the company’s best-selling and most iconic products, the buffoon and Birkin handbags, are at the nave of the store. Although the digit items are decades old for Hermés, some 80 proportionality of its 50,000 stockkeeping units are renewed seasonally, ceo Apostle saint told WWD in October.

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