...Way back in 1975!
I know that some of you have already seen these photos and sketches but I am so thrilled that I just wanted to share my discovery with others that I know will appreciate my excitement.
Recently while I was poking around the UCLA digital library's Bonnie Cashin Collection I was very happy to find original sketches for the "Bonnie Cashin for Meyers" bag that I purchased and rehabbed a couple of years ago! She called it the "Body Bag" which is the same name that she used for a different looking bag previously designed for Coach.
Well, I can't seem to stay out of the UCLA Cashin archives and so this weekend I was thrilled when I found a scan of an October 5, 1975 New York Times Magazine article written by Anne-Marie Schiro titled "Hail the Bag"! It's about a show called "Homage to the Bag" that ran at the New York Museum of Contemporary Crafts from October 10, 1975 through January 4, 1976.
And imagine my delight when I saw my "Bonnie Cashin for Meyers Body Bag" prominently displayed and cited on the first page of the article!
I would have loved to have gone to that show! The exhibit took 2 years to gather and included 200 bags representing various historical periods and types of bags. Some were on loan from museums and art galleries and my sweet bag was right there on display with the best of them!
It was not possible to read much of the text from the scan so for $3.95 I purchased a PDF of the article from the NY Times archive, here are a couple of excerpts from Schiro's article:
"What is a bag? Something to carry the groceries home in (or the jewels from Tiffany's), what potato chips are packaged in, a status symbol, what doctors carry their equipment in and lawyers their briefs, an art work by Andy Warhol, what most women and some men use to tote around their everyday necessities...
...The exhibition traces the development of women's purses from the early 19th century when women of fashion carried reticules...to contemporary versions designed by Bonnie Cashin, Marimekko, and Hermes..."
I have attached the scan and sketches from the UCLA archive and a couple of pictures of my rehabbed Bonnie Cashin for Meyers "Museum Quality" Body Bag!
To visit the UCLA archives go to the link below and search for "coach" "meyers" "sketches" etc. It may take a few minutes to load the images:
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/vi...49199691755951EE5C.node1?ark=21198/zz0002bk1c
I know that some of you have already seen these photos and sketches but I am so thrilled that I just wanted to share my discovery with others that I know will appreciate my excitement.
Recently while I was poking around the UCLA digital library's Bonnie Cashin Collection I was very happy to find original sketches for the "Bonnie Cashin for Meyers" bag that I purchased and rehabbed a couple of years ago! She called it the "Body Bag" which is the same name that she used for a different looking bag previously designed for Coach.
Well, I can't seem to stay out of the UCLA Cashin archives and so this weekend I was thrilled when I found a scan of an October 5, 1975 New York Times Magazine article written by Anne-Marie Schiro titled "Hail the Bag"! It's about a show called "Homage to the Bag" that ran at the New York Museum of Contemporary Crafts from October 10, 1975 through January 4, 1976.
And imagine my delight when I saw my "Bonnie Cashin for Meyers Body Bag" prominently displayed and cited on the first page of the article!
I would have loved to have gone to that show! The exhibit took 2 years to gather and included 200 bags representing various historical periods and types of bags. Some were on loan from museums and art galleries and my sweet bag was right there on display with the best of them!
It was not possible to read much of the text from the scan so for $3.95 I purchased a PDF of the article from the NY Times archive, here are a couple of excerpts from Schiro's article:
"What is a bag? Something to carry the groceries home in (or the jewels from Tiffany's), what potato chips are packaged in, a status symbol, what doctors carry their equipment in and lawyers their briefs, an art work by Andy Warhol, what most women and some men use to tote around their everyday necessities...
...The exhibition traces the development of women's purses from the early 19th century when women of fashion carried reticules...to contemporary versions designed by Bonnie Cashin, Marimekko, and Hermes..."
I have attached the scan and sketches from the UCLA archive and a couple of pictures of my rehabbed Bonnie Cashin for Meyers "Museum Quality" Body Bag!
To visit the UCLA archives go to the link below and search for "coach" "meyers" "sketches" etc. It may take a few minutes to load the images:
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/vi...49199691755951EE5C.node1?ark=21198/zz0002bk1c
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