What am I bid? Prices go through the roof at Christie’s handbag auction
A Hermès or a Birkin is now a high-performing investment as well as a fashion statement after years of record prices
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Flat-pack fashion: Ikea takes swipe at Balenciaga’s $2,150 shopping bag
Swedish furniture giant issues a guide to identifying a genuine Frakta bag after influential fashion house launches uncannily similar tote
Natacha Ramsay-Levi named creative director of Chloé
The Parisian-born designer will take the reins from Clare Waight Keller, bringing a wealth of experience from Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton
From customisation to DIY handbags – how customers became designers
From bags to T-shirts, consumers have become designers in the latest wave of fashion customisation
Selfridges goes bigger on bags as £300m London revamp begins
Oxford Street store to have biggest ‘handbag hall’ in the world designed with architect David Chipperfield
I’m not with the brand: why bag designers are losing the logo
It bags were once all about shouty branding. No longer. New research suggests that a no logo approach now rules