My biggest fear is entering a cubicle and seeing there is no hook whatsoever to hang my bag on. Well she is not going on the floor.
So she stays on me. 
I have this bag too and the best way to describe the bag is “having a backbone”. LOL It’s always erect and doesn’t lose it’s shape. I am hopping big bags come back so I can start using the St Jacques shopping bag again. It doesn’t lose it’s shape either.
They have the smaller version now but I believe the name has changed. I guess since Marc Jacobs is no longer designing for LV so when they updated the bag they didn’t keep the name?
I feel like the collabs they have been doing lately is with celebrity endorsements rather than designer collabs. I hated the “artistic” collab with the classic paintings. I am sure there were a lot of fans of this but it felt weird to me. But who cares what I think. To each his or her own. If we all liked the same things, life would be boring. LOL
Some bags looks better with darker handles. I like my mini speedy this color than how I got it in the 90ties. It’s more like a tan than dirt. But yes, on some leather portions, it is dirt.
Yes, 100%, I think actual deep patina is lovely. I’m just saying what some folks call “patina” is just them needing to wash their hands more. Lol.
Big bags ARE back, and besides that, a big bag is never really out of style. I would never NOT carry a big bag just because there was a mini bag trend for instance. If you care about that sort of thing, think about the odds of someone seeing you with a big handbag and thinking to themselves..."wow, she should be carrying a small one"! Astronomically low.
Actually because of covid I have been carrying small purses and when I said I want big bags to be back I meant I want things to go back to normal. I should have been clear with that. I am old so I could careless what is in style.
I was really turned off by the Fornasetti collab. And yes I disliked the the Jeff Koons collection as well….
I love the fact that this piece will have so much sentimental value for you because of the symbolic meaning of the stickers you choose! Don’t worry about other peoples opinion whe it comes to your personalized piece. If other people had the same inspiration as you do, they would do it too. Half of those people have no emotional attachment to those places depicted on the stickers so why would the pick them? They also probable want to resell as well. Yours will be a keeper, a real heirloom piece, as LV intended, so you do you, designed by you for you.
