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Prada Handbags for the Season 2012
Recently, Prada came out with a look book for its latest collection of accessories for the 2011-2012 Autumn to Spring seasons. It included a bag collection of bags made of feather and vividly colored leather. Prada introduced a new way and unique way to carry bags. Not only were there the usual clutches but hand – held bags or purses and bags pressed to the body were presented and had caught the attention of the fashion world. It was all very feminine, playful and amazingly chic but tends to be whimsical and fanciful.
Prada Handbag 2012 Season
The Prada handbags for season 2012 also paid homage to the auto world in the ornate hardware used for crocodile clutches very evocative of the 40’s automotive details in chrome and in some clutches stitched with cars in leather. There were feminine looking satchels complemented by clutches in crocodile leather.
Prada Handbag 2012 Season
A Prada bag is pure luxury. For some, Prada is not just a brand it has become a glamorous, fashionable and opulent way of life. Prada bags illicit envious looks from others and are such attention-grabbing accessories.
Prada Handbag 2012 Season
One Prada bag for the seasons 2012, perfect for the professional and business women is a brightly striped, in blue or green, briefcase.
Prada Handbag 2012 Season
Another fabulous Prada bag in the collection is a bag with shoulder straps. This comes plain or colorfully striped with a solid and large gold colored clasp.
Prada Handbag 2012 Season
Small clutch bags or with straps are also part of the Prada handbags for the season 2012.
Bags with cute appliqués, a very resort – type of bag great for spring are some of the big favorites in the 2012 Prada Resort bag collection. This included a jeweled Prado Raso clutch, similar yet not the same as the evening bags of Prada. The whole front flap is covered with glossy, sparkly appliqué beauties. Photos by http://www.raffaello-network.com/
Popular Handbags for Fall and Winter 2012
One way to be stylish and trendy in the most beautiful season of the year, the fall season, is to be in step and attuned to what is hot and fashionable during this season. Since your outfit will almost always be covered with outer clothing during the cooler months, what better way to display your stylishness and sense of fashion than with the season’s most popular handbags. Handbags are accessories that complete an outfit and give it a unique and distinctive finish.
Here are some of the most popular handbags for fall and winter 2012.
Handbags in nude colors
Nude is one hot color this season. Nude colored clothes, shoes and accessories such as handbags dominate the runways for this season’s fashion collection. Nude handbags are pretty wonderful and elegant and make a lot of room for matching flexibility. Nude colored handbags are all over the Balenciaga and Moschino collections for 2012, making it one of the most popular handbags for the 2012.
Handbags with floral prints
Spring marked the beginning for fashion’s fascination with everything in floral prints. This absorption for floral prints segued smoothly to summer and now in the fall and winter 2012, floral prints are still a great favorite particularly in bags. Handbags with floral prints bring out the feminine and fun loving in women, making it a hot, popular handbag for 2012
Handbags with chain handles
Chanel handbags, with their signature chain handles are classic and a popular choice of most fashion-forwards women. No wonder, other named designers made use of chain handles, an ageless handbag detail, in their own handbag collections. This makes a chain handled handbag in every handbag style, design or color a popular handbag for fall and winter 2012. If a Chanel handbag is not within your budget, you can always opt for one of the less expensive brands with the same Chanel chain handle detailing.
Chanel Handbag for 2012
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Winter Handbags Trends for 2012
Four of the upcoming winter 2012 handbags trends include animal prints, fur, two toned colorblock bags, and red handbags. There are other handbag trends for 2012 but these four handbag styles top the choices.
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Animal print
The trend for animal prints in bags that were hot since last summer continues this season. Love for leopard, snake, zebra, tiger, cheetah and python print handbags in the most interesting colors from vivid green and fuchsia to neutral hues such as cream and beige have reached its peak this Fall.
Furs
If animal prints are not for you, you can always opt for the exotic fur bags made of fox & rabbit furs among others that will an add a touch of fun and at the same time, sumptuousness to your wardrobe this Fall. Furs are a mainstay as a hot trend every Fall. This 20ll Fall season, it has been executed in all kinds of fashion items including bags. For the 2011, 2012 Fall & Winter fashion week, top fashion houses such as Louis Vuitton and Chanel introduced fur handbags, from clutch to satchel handbags, in their collections.
Two – toned colorblock handbags
Two-toned colorblock totes, chain bags, carry-all satchels, structured bags, cross-body bags and more dominated the runways for the Fall season this year. The top designers really got very creative in combining dual color palettes – bold and bold, bold and neutral and neutral with neutral, very interesting, extremely attractive, exceptionally fashionable!!!!
Red handbags
Color red is very much the current color trend in almost every fashion items for the Fall season, including in handbags. Red is such an empowering color, and a red handbag paired with an all black, all white or black & white outfit is a real attention-grabber. For a more versatile flavor, pair a red handbag with brown or grey. Photo Copyright of PR PHOTOS
Clutch Handbags for 2012
Clutch handbags will be one the trendiest handbags for 2012, maybe because clutch handbags this year are not just accessories for evening or formal affairs. Clutch handbags for 2012 are fun, flirty and to-go bags that have even gone casual.
Audrina Patridge with a Clutch Handbag
The clutch handbags for 2012 range from small to midsize which comes with a lot of fancy embellishments. They are easy to carry, comfortable in the hand and have enough room to carry a woman’s daily essentials such as keys, lipstick, money clip, credit card case, powder and even a cell phone.
Carrie Preston with a Clutch Handbag
The popularity of clutch bags is due to the fact that most women like having something to hold with their hands, neither something that is too small to carry almost anything nor something that is too unwieldy and large. Clutch bags also do away with the groping and fumbling for a lipstick or key from a capacious handbag. In a clutch bag, there is room only for essential item like a key, credit cards, cell phones and the like and not much more, so locating them in a clutch bag is easier.
Christina Hendricks with a Clutch Handbag
There are so many options for clutch bag of 2012. There are soft, almost slouchy clutch bags; stiff, structured clutch bags; rectangular shaped or unusually shaped handbags. Clutch bags also come with short handles or with a detachable strap that may or may not be detached. The 2012 clutch bags also come in a variety of materials, from leather, metal, animal skin to fabric. Clutch bags for casual or day wear can be simply designed but evening clutches can come highly embellished with beads or crystals.
Jessica White with a Clutch Handbag
Whatever your choice will be for a clutch bag, you will always be on-trend and never out of fashion as long as you pick the right type of clutch bag that will work well with your personal fashion style. Photos Copyright of PR PHOTOS
Trendy Handbags for 2012
Fashionable and functional handbags are the much loved accessory of most women. A fabulous looking handbag can make a simple outfit look great, making an investment in a handbag a wise and smart fashion investment for any woman.
Classic and stylish or casual and sassy, the handbags of 2012 are definitely attractive and offer a wide variety of choices. The wide variety of shapes, sizes, colors and patterns make it possible to have something for everyone. For women who are looking to make a long-term investment for their wardrobe they should categorically direct their interest on classic designs like Fendi, Christina Dior, Chanel and bags of other designers that never go out of style.
Exotic skin bags on the other hand are a marvelous choice for women who are on the lookout for luxurious designer handbags. These handbags have a very modern touch that generates a noticeable sophisticated allure. Other than bags made of exotic skin, bags of other prints and patterns are also a big trend for 2012, so for women who are not so keen on animal skin, there is always a patterned or printed bag that will tickle their fancy.
Patterns are not only the strong point of the handbag trend for 2012. A closer look at the handbag styles will point to the fact that sizes and styles of bags for 2011 are not limited to one single size or style. Shoulder bags, envelope bags, tote bags, top handle bags, clutches, boho bags and cross body bags are all trendy bags for 2012.
The ingenious patterns, versatile materials and fabrics, wide range of sizes and styles, the burst of colors and the combination of styles, materials, colors and patterns make the handbag trend for 2012 truly exciting and interesting. Photos Copyright of PR PHOTOS
