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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Hermes Birkin Handbag – A Classic Handbag
One of the classiest handbags ever is a Birkin Bag by Hermes. This timeless handbag that is one of the most sought-after handbags in the world was designed in late 1960 and has remained a status symbol and a lasting example of enduring beauty, classic style and ageless design. A Birkin handbag is handmade and is considered a badge of wealth because of its exclusivity and high price.
Hermes Birkin Handbag
The Hermes Birkin bag is said to be made originally for singer and actress Jane Birkin and has since then become even more famous than the actress. It is the second Hermes bag named after an actress and both these handbags that carry an actress’ name have become the prime examples of the type of Hermes bags that have created quite a craze in the fashion world.
This very exclusive and pricey bag is made in a variety of leathers, from calf, lizard, and crocodile to ostrich leather. It becomes more expensive as the scales of the hide get smaller. The most expensive Hermes Birkin is made of saltwater crocodile hide. The lining of a classic Hermes Birkin handbag is made of goat skin and the color of the lining matches the color of the outer material. The cost of this classic handbag depends on the skin, hardware fixture and color.
A Hermes Birkin bag with a clasp decorated with diamonds went for a hefty $64,800 in an auction held in 2004, proof of the obsession for a Hermes Birkin bag by the rich and famous. There is a long waiting list of women desirous of possessing a Hermes Birkin even at a regular price of $6,000 making it one of the most expensive handbag and hard to come-by handbag in the world. It is even passed on like a family heirloom from generation to generation. Photo by Yvette Ilagan
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
Unusual Handbags for 2012
Handbags are not only accessories, for most women, handbags are necessities. In fact handbags become so necessary that there are women who cannot leave the house without a handbag. There are classic and stylish handbags, and there are bright multicolored or fanciful handbags. This article is about unique and unusual handbags that are a far departure from what we are used to seeing. Their distinctive design will surely be a conversation piece, so take a peek:
Xposed Handbag for 2012
Xposed is a revolutionary new line of bags that cunningly bare the real you, as well as everything else inside the bag. It comes in tow styles; a grocery tote and a handy cosmetic bag with a zip closure and made of a sturdy non-woven plastic fiber. Xposed handbag is designed by Luke Boggia.
Loop handle heel handbag for 2012
Loop handle heel handbags are made of natural leather and designed like a heeled shoe with looped handle strap. It has a cotton lining with one internal pocket
Keyboard Handbag
This is a very creative and innovative bag made out of hundreds, in fact 393 computer keyboard keys. It is designed by by João Sabino, a brilliant designer from Portugal.
Boombox Handbag for 2012
Boombox handbags have a built-in FM radio controllable from the exterior of the bag and are iPod, mp3 phone player ready. It is fully lined with small inside pockets and comes with extendable, attachable shoulder strap and a zip-up top.
Tinkerbell Handbag for 2012
This is a truly unusual handbag shape; an upside down dead Chihuahua patterned after Paris Hilton’s pet, Tinkerbell. The handbag design took advantage of the trend of toting a small dog as fashion accessory.
Head Handbag for 2012
Another unusual handbag is the head – shaped bag designed by Yael Mer, an Israeli designer inspired by the mythical biblical story of Judith, the woman who beheaded Holophernes. The bag is a powerful way to convert stories into articles.
