The It-bags of FW '20 to have on your wishlist

Outlandish embellishments – Chanel

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Representing the OTT lavishness that has gotten popular amongst the fashion crowd in recent seasons, designers are dressing their bags with statement embellishments and charms. At Chanel, oversized velvet clutch bags were festooned with saturated costume jewels that looked like they came straight out of grandma’s treasured jewellery trove.

Outlandish embellishments – Loewe

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Loewe had a collection of clutch bags in neutral coloured supple leather (think: white, brown and black) with sizeable gold-studded, conch shell-esque charms dangling from the end of the drawstrings.

Outlandish embellishments – Balmain

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Balmain chose to go all-out-glam, pairing a sequinned brown dress with a metallic gold handle bucket bag bedecked generously in sparkling crystals.

Matchy matchy – Alexander McQueen

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We remember thinking to ourselves, coming out from the FW ‘20 fashion month, that it would be a really cool idea to match our bags EXACTLY to our outfits. Alexander McQueen had a blush pink quilted foldover clutch teamed with a skirt crafted from the same fabric.

Matchy matchy – Tory Burch

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Tory Burch had a white carryall with blue florals on it to go with its printed flowy skirt.

Matchy matchy – Givenchy

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Givenchy’s oversized travel bag was rendered in red heritage print, a perfect match for the coordinating jacket and wrap skirt it was paired with.

Loose yarns – Bottega Veneta

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Fringing and tassels are a way for you to have fun with your bag styles this fall. Making rounds on the runway, seemingly handcrafted-with-love bags made from woven or knitted yarns are finished with loose trailing fringe embellishments. A pastel yellow clutch bag covered in soft fuzzy fur at Bottega Veneta stood out with a long curtain of thick fluffy lobs.

Loose yarns – Givenchy

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At Givenchy, a crowd of white tassels sprouted from a snap clasp clutch.

Loose yarns – Fendi

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A bag on the Fendi runway was knitted from thick grey yarns, and its shoulder strap featured loose shaggy fringing.

Micro bag charms – Prada

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Micro bags are getting delightfully smaller and smaller – how do you ensure you don’t misplace one? Fall ‘20’s designers have a solution: turn them into keychains. Seen hanging off of bigger carryalls, secured onto belts, wristbands and necklaces, micro bags that can barely hold more than a single Tic Tac now serve as adorable little charms.

Micro bag charms – Max Mara

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Max Mara’s furry brown receptacle had a smaller leather bucket bag and what looks to be a keychain of a metal water tumbler fitted with a sleeve tied to its strap.

Micro bag charms – Fendi

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A waistbelt’s function is not only to cinch the waist, but to hold several knick knacks such as a pen keychain and a teeny tiny foldover purse.

Top handle minis – Marc Jacobs

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Mini top handle bags appeared to be another area of fascination designers shared for the FW ‘20 collections.

Top handle minis – Prada

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Prada had a collection of structured fold-over rectangular tote bags with a single stiff top handle, and they were all covered in different geometric prints.

Top handle minis – Ottolinger

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At Ottolinger, quirky jello-like totes in bright colours featured colour-contrasting toy-like plastic chains.

Out-of-the-ordinary top handles: Maison Margiela

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Get a handle on this: wacky, outre materials were used in the making of fall ‘20’s coolest handbags.

Out-of-the-ordinary top handles – Nehera

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Nehera looked to natural finishes, using raw wooden logs with sophisticated draped fabric (such as beige pink satin) tied through the drilled holes. The result was a unique number worthy of a cult following and an It-bag status.

Out-of-the-ordinary top handles – Marni

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Maison Margiela opted for bamboo-like round handles that were fitted atop its woven raffia trunk bag.

Braids – Chloe

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Creating interesting textures and tactiles seem to be at the top of the designers’ collective agendas for next season.

Braids – Salvatore Ferragamo

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Much like the idea of the woven leather bag, which was one of spring 2020’s biggest bag trends, these bags feature complex interlacing of material to form braided textures.

Braids – Dior

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Dior’s saddle bags were stitched together with a decorative blanket-like stitch finished with braids at the edges.

Coin purses – Miu Miu

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Quaint coin purses never fail to conjure an illusion of antiquated elegance. It’s like a treasured heirloom from the days of our grandmothers. Featuring a snap clasp and blown up slightly to a more magnified size, coin purse silhouettes showed up all over the runways.

Coin purses – Lanvin

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Lanvin had a regal structured purse that was coated in metallic bronze and featured exquisite embroidery.

Coin purses – Moschino

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Moschino’s purses came with straps and covered in vibrant roses and an anime-style portrait of a lady.

Bowling bags – Louis Vuitton

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The sporty shape of the bowling bag, which typically features two short top handles on either sides, a roomy interior and elongated sides, is back with a vengeance this fall.

Bowling bags – Chanel

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Practical and ladylike, the bowling bag makes for a great contender when it comes to the perfect travelling bag.

Bowling bags – Miu Miu

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Which is your favourite: Miu Miu’s reptile skin-embossed bowling bag, Chanel’s classy leather number, or Louis Vuitton’s structured half-moon shaped piece?

Chunky gold chains – Stella McCartney

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Chunky chain accents are not just ruling over the jewellery department, they’ve set their sights on handbags now too.

Chunky gold chains – JW Anderson

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Oversized chain links were seen at JW Anderson as the main decorative hardware adorning the supple leather bags.

Chunky gold chains – Dries Van Noten

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Dries Van Noten’s croc-embossed purses featured gold and silver chain straps decorated by massive ball bearings.