This week’s Chicagoan is personal stylist and handbag dealer Kevin Gorsch.
Tag: handbags
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Sales and Fashion Events
This weekend: an opera-inspired fashion show, deep discounts at Robin Richman and Florodora, and more.
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Bike Bags Again, Now With More Local Flavor
After yesterday’s post, a reader on Facebook alerted me to a local company that makes bags that go from bike to body: Po Campo.
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Cycle Chic: Hambone Designs Bike Bags
This weekend the New York Times profiled some “accidental entrepreneurs,” people pushed toward their new calling by the loss of a job. Among them is Lisa Marie Grillos who after getting laid off from her gig as a Williams-Sonoma production manager started Hambone Designs with her brother, Herman Barnagan, making stylish bike bags that fold […]
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Nice Handbag—But What Does It Mean?
I’m sure there have been whole dissertations written on the cultural significance of the handbag in contemporary society. Trying to prove myself right, I stumbled across an interesting essay on the subject from Paula Marantz Cohen, an author and professor of English at Drexel University who has written many lively pieces about shopping and style.
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The new alchemy: turn gold into a new bag
The first piece of jewelry I ever got from a guy was from my high school boyfriend—a slim gold chain bracelet that’s been sitting in one of my jewelry boxes for a couple decades, as I gravitate toward bolder pieces now. Perhaps it would be put to better use as cold, hard, cash. Tonight from […]
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The Google Alerts of online shopping
Shopittome.com: customized e-mails about online sales.