5 luxury bags that are worth buying currently in terms of trend/pricepoint

Hello Bag lovers,
I was going through Gucci’s website and Bottega Veneta’s website and was shocked by the current pricing for their bags and the thought occurred to me “what are the best bags to buy now!?”

I would love to hear your thoughts and please post 5 bags you think are worth buying now ❤️

Five Most Meaningful Bags

Megs just posted a reel on IG on her most meaningful bags to celebrate national handbag day.

I thought it would be fun to do it ourselves!

What are your most meaningful bags and try to keep it at no more than 5 or follow her?

I'll put mine in the comments as soon as i get home from the office!

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  • Oldest: Coach pochette
  • Newest: BV Teen Jodi
  • Bluest: Lowe puzzle solid
  • Smallest: Fendi nano baguette
  • Most sentimetal: hermest kelly longue
  • Rarest: BV Knot clutches limited edition special order
  • Bag that goes with everything: Gucci 1955 horsebit
  • Carry the most: Dior book tote

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Brandville Shop - Experience?

Has anyone purchased from Brandville Shop before? They are listed as being in Bulgaria/Albania with an office address (no physical presence) in NY. They sell across multiple platform as well as their own website. Corporate information shows that they are owned by two guys who graduated university in 2019. I'm interested in purchasing an item but worried about authenticity since I see multiples of same item being sold. Anyone have any experience buying from them that they can share with me?

Curious about the Metallic Laminated Nappa Trapuntatas...

Hi Ladies! I was wondering if you Gucci Gals had any backstory on these little nuggets:



I see a camera bag size and a mini dome size, with color combos of red/green, red/blue, and pink/turquoise on resale sites.

I'm by no means a Gucci aficionado but I keep up with my fashion mags and I've never seen these before! They're so cute and a very accessible price point at resale.

Were they part of a special issue/collection or just sort of under the radar? I'm think they're super cute, but maybe critically panned? I've tried to find blog posts but nothing - so no feedback on how well the hold up or anything (?).

Even if you don't have any scoop, would be curious to hear opinions! Dreadful 80s style or curiously cute? Let's discuss!

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Refurbishing a 90s Chanel camera bag. Before and after pics

TBH I was not sure I would ever have a bag to post in this forum. Chanel seemed unattainable for my budget.

However I stumbled across a worn 90s camera bag on Vestiaire for a really great price and thought I would take a risk (may have been a couple of glasses of wine deep at the time but meh what are you going to do)

When I got it I was worried it would never look good enough to wear and that I had made an expensive mistake. I got some quotes on a refurb here in Australia and some of the quotes were more than the bag cost.

I fortunately stumbled across a designer bag repairer through a consignment service I follow on Insta. Her quote was more reasonable so I took the plunge.

I got her back yesterday and I am in love. I think she has done a wonderful job but would love to know what the experts on here think :)

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Yoogi’s ratings…..

Sometimes I’m flabbergasted by how the various resale sites classify items! This looks far from “ like new “!!! Looks like a drip of some kind, handles a little dirty, even maybe a couple of tiny nicks in the leather??? And then other times I’ve received an item that was like new, but listed otherwise. Don’t know why this struck me tonight!! :lol::lol:

Dionysus Mini - Help Please!

So I bought two dionysus minis (not super minis)...a green from Vestiaire Collective and a tan from Fashionphile. Both were authenticated and the one from Vestiaire Collective was from an expert seller with 200+ sales.

I compared the two and noticed that the inner flap of the green one is maybe 1cm longer than the flap of the tan one. Aside from that, the size of the bags is the same.

Do you think one of them is a superfake? Or do you think the proportion is different because the green one is several years older and thus had slighlty different dimensions for that inner flap? Does anyone have a green mini dionysus they bought from gucci that can help me out here? Thank you!

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What is grained lambskin?

So I recently bought a CF from the store that I thought was caviar but when I looked at the Chanel and Moi maintenance site for this item it says “grained lambskin.” Is it actually lambskin? Is this a new material? It does feel much more flexible than the other caviar CF I have. For reference it is a metallic silver medium CF from 22b per the tag. I cannot seem to find this particular bag online either.
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