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sark said:
I know this is a long shot, but I saw a woman carrying a really beautiful, minimalist chic black leather tote the other day. I should have stopped her and asked what it was. It was definitely large, and the defining characteristic was that the short sides (the ones facing front and back when you're carrying it on your shoulder), folded deeply in toward the bag's center, in a cool geometric/origami-esque way. There was no flashy hardware, just the strong lines of the design. The leather looked to be good quality - strong, but lightweight/thin (not thickly padded). I don't remember whether it was open or had a zipper. Any ideas??? I keep thinking about it as the one that got away...
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Something from Madewell maybe? They sell simple, yet chic leather bags. Something with thicker leather, sort of handmade looking?
 
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#2,887
sark said:
I know this is a long shot, but I saw a woman carrying a really beautiful, minimalist chic black leather tote the other day. I should have stopped her and asked what it was. It was definitely large, and the defining characteristic was that the short sides (the ones facing front and back when you're carrying it on your shoulder), folded deeply in toward the bag's center, in a cool geometric/origami-esque way. There was no flashy hardware, just the strong lines of the design. The leather looked to be good quality - strong, but lightweight/thin (not thickly padded). I don't remember whether it was open or had a zipper. Any ideas??? I keep thinking about it as the one that got away...
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Celine Cabas comes to mind. The Vermillion is what it looks like "closed"...ImageUploadedByPurseForum1457118892.778813.jpgImageUploadedByPurseForum1457119435.409743.jpg
 
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missjenny2679 said:
Celine Cabas comes to mind. The Vermillion is what it looks like "closed"...View attachment 3292381View attachment 3292385
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so even with the sides pushing in, it was proportionally more wide than tall compared to the celine. so far the one that's come closest in look is the akris ai, when you look at it from the side without the hardware. it had that sort of trapezoidal shape. The reason I'm fairly positive it wasn't the Akris is because the Akris short sides basically both fold over onto one long side of the bag. With the mystery bag I saw, they pushed in, and didn't cover up the long side. Does that make sense? I do like the Akris and Celine bags too though . . .
 
#2,892
Orlie said:
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What a fun mystery! Was the bottom side of the bag flat (like the akris ai), or did it kind of dip down in the middle where the side folds in (like a fortune cookie)?
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So imagine the red Celine, but proportionally much wider, so that with the sides folded in (like in the Celine, but deeper toward the center), the bag still reads as very horizontal (with a soft trapezoid shape), not square or vertical. Does that make any sense?
 
#2,893
sark said:
so even with the sides pushing in, it was proportionally more wide than tall compared to the celine. so far the one that's come closest in look is the akris ai, when you look at it from the side without the hardware. it had that sort of trapezoidal shape. The reason I'm fairly positive it wasn't the Akris is because the Akris short sides basically both fold over onto one long side of the bag. With the mystery bag I saw, they pushed in, and didn't cover up the long side. Does that make sense? I do like the Akris and Celine bags too though . . .
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Hmmm🤔 Alexander McQueen De Manta maybe?ImageUploadedByPurseForum1457147031.377578.jpg
 
#2,894
Orlie said:
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What a fun mystery! Was the bottom side of the bag flat (like the akris ai), or did it kind of dip down in the middle where the side folds in (like a fortune cookie)?
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It's possible that the bottom of the bag dipped down bit, in a rounded way, rather than remaining totally flat/straight across. I'm not quite sure though. It was the oversized wide shape and over articulated folded in sides that really caught my attention.
 
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