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Even if the economy hasn’t gotten out of its pitiful state, there is no reason not to celebrate the holidays. People may have to tighten their belts a bit this year (and the years to come, hopefully not) especially on the non-essentials but some do entitle themselves to some form of indulgence no matter how prohibitive the cost maybe. Some people find comfort in designer brands; it’s one of those things that they’d spend money on in a heartbeat.

As a matter of fact, according to the Financial Times, luxury and designer brands are flourishing in terms of profits and high-end brands are eyeing more retail space across the US despite the recession. Further, NPD Group, the marketing research company, said that perfumes priced at one hundred dollars and more increased by 7 percent. Bond No 9’s president, Linda Rahme, added that global wholesale business has increased 25 percent last year while Paris-based Creed has more than doubled its sales in the past decade. Does this mean that recession doesn’t apply to the perfume industry?

Over the past year, there have been an increase in the number of luxe fragrances in the perfumery. They range from bejeweled perfumes such as Love Ralph Lauren with an amethyst cap ($2,200), Bond No 9’s All-Star Swarovski embellished with 5,000 Swarovski stone in each bottle ($650), Limited edition Guerlain Mitsouko decorated with real jade and pearls ($7,000) and more fragrances that are priced over a hundred dollars a piece, bejeweled or not.

Having said so, is it worth every dollar considering it’s the holiday season?

Chanel purses is considered to be an umbrella term which encompasses and includes many different kinds of plastic Handbags. Among the Chanel Hand Handbags, the different kinds of Handbags are t-shirt Handbags, garment Handbags, tape Handbags, handle Handbags, litter Handbags and many more. There are also the printed Chanel Handbags which include custom printed Hand Handbags, custom printed patch handle Handbags and custom printed litter Handbags. These custom printed Handbags have special logos or designs printed on them as per the customer’s preference and demands.

Generally, big companies and organizations order large numbers of custom printed Chanel Hand Handbags for multiple uses across their organizations. They have their company’s name or slogan printed on these Chanel Handbags. The custom printed Hand Handbags can also be printed in the color or colors and size of the customer’s choice. These retail Handbags are generally ordered in bulk and as the number of Handbags per order increases, the price per Hand Handbags reduces drastically, leading to an overall discount. The price of the Chanel Handbags varies on the basis of use, shapes and sizes.

The Chanel Handbags are also available in large rolls in many departmental stores and supermarkets, so that the customers can buy them off the counter. The large rolls may vary in their thickness depending on how big each Hand bag is? The second factor is the availability of that particular bag that the customer wants.

These large rolls which are available off the counter are by and large not printed and are plain of one uniform color. Litter Handbags and garment Handbags are examples of Chanel Handbags which are generally available in such a manner as they are frequently used by a large portion of the population. Each roll has a minimum of about one hundred Handbags, though the number of Handbags per roll may vary depending on a number of factors such as size, company and the type of Handbags.

In general, I’m an enormous fan of everyday objects turned into art objects. Celebrating the beauty in everyday, functional things is a worthwhile pursuit; the design equivalent to “stopping to smell the roses.” And perhaps if we begin to blur the line between beautiful things and functional things, we would end up with more things that are BOTH beautiful and functional, and then we all win. Taking pleasure in the everyday is nothing to sneeze at, after all.

contribution to this idea is their Spring/Summer 2009 Essential Handbag. Modeled after the iconic shopping bags of their 31, Rue Cambon flagship location in Paris, the bags are produced in smooth calfskin in Chanel’s signature palette of black, white and pale pink. They come in three sizes - small for $1525, which is the only of the three available pale pink, medium for $2625, and large in $2995. From the information that we received from Chanel, it’s unclear whether the small is also available in white and black - if you’re interested, a call to your local boutique may be warranted.

On to the real question - do these bags achieve their design goals? My answer is a qualified yes - they are, after all, remarkably accurate leather reproductions. It’s certainly not an easy task to get a piece of leather that large to be that smooth and also have the crisp corners and creasing of a thick-paper shopping bag, and the bag accomplishes that quite well. In fact, from a distance, I probably wouldn’t realize that it wasn’t an actual shopping bag because the leather is very matte. I can’t tell from the pictures, but there are indications at the side gussets that it may also collapse like a shopping bag, which would be kind of a cool trick for storage, even if it would probably leave an unsightly crease in the leather. It also may have some kind of rigid structural surface over which the leather is stretched in order to create the extremely flat front and back panels, but only a hands-on inspection will tell.

Structurally and design-wise, I have no problem with the Chanel Essential bag, but I do have a problem with the timing of its release. In an economic climate where women shopping at Hermes have been said to be asking for plain white shopping bags in order to hide the perceived vulgarity of their luxury purchases, is a handbag that proudly announces, in bold block print, just how much money was spent on it a wise choice? Probably not. Logo bags have been losing popularity for more than a few seasons now, and this is probably the most obvious logo on the face of the planet. Krazypants Lagerfeld would not deign to have interest in how the other half lives, but handbags, second to only perfume and cosmetics, are essential to how a brand introduces itself to a larger audience.

Oh, Karl Lagerfeld. He’s crazypants. He’s also the creative force behind Chanel handbags , although I’m sure you all were aware of that. As a result, all of the creative elements of Chanel’s branding are immensely, luxuriously over the top in ways that few other brands can touch (although Louis Vuitton also does an admirable job with Marc Jacobs at the helm), with advertising campaigns and catalogues often photographed by Lagerfeld himself. He is indeed the man behind the camera for Chanel’s Spring/Summer 2009 Accessories Catalogue, but to get a first look at the catalogue and find out more about Krazy Karl’s concept for the shoot, you’ll have to make the jump.

Yes, that is Jerry Hall. And she’s looking absolutely amazing at 52 years old, playing opposite the much-younger Baptiste Giabiconi in Lagerfeld’s interpretation of the 1920 French novel Cheri, written by Colette. In the novel, a years-long May-December romance is interrupted by the marriage of the younger man, after which he returns to his older lover for one night to receive her blessing and support to leave forever. Lagerfeld’s photographs appear to take place during that one last night, and they’re nothing short of gorgeous. Well, except for one; one photo is in full color and seems to convey a much different mood than the others. I can’t help but wonder if it was accidentally included in the electronic package that we received or if it actually appears in the non-electronic catalog. If it does, I think it would have been better left out, but who am I to question Karl Lagerfeld? No one, that’s who, and I’m sure he’d tell you that if you asked him. Actually, he’d probably just tell you that I’m demode.

Anyway, I digress. The chanel purses…sigh. Kind of a mixed, uh, bag (no pun intended). The hilights are easy to spot - a tulle-covered flap bag quilted with rows of sequins and another classic flap, this one set on its end and made into a north/south tote that plays with an onlooker’s senses of proportion and perception. They’re beautiful in vastly different ways, but both are a play on the classic Chanel aesthetic and make the observer think about form and function. The lowlights…similarly easy to spot. Handbags fashioned to look like shopping bags were boring a long time ago (Bloomingdale’s vinyl “brown bag” totes, anyone?), and I certainly don’t need to pay as much for one as these probably cost. Also, the whole idea seems kind of 2003 - logo bags have been steadily declining in popularity in favor of more subtle luxuries. “CHANEL” in big, bold letters is the antithesis of subtle. Take a look below and tell me what you think.

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