For the Love of Bags

Louis Vuitton is cashing in on the upcoming Valentine’s Day hype. If you have someone who can afford to buy you Louis Vuitton bags and accessories, now’s the time to run along down to the LV store and pick out your Valentine’s day gifts!

LV has gone all shiny for Valentine’s Day with its monogram vernis leather. That’s the shiny embossed one that makes me wonder if its leather or patent leather. Patent leather, no matter what its called, is simply synthetic leather - that’s how they get the high shine.

Details aside, I love the deep eggplant purple colour of the vernis leather (Violette). The Sunset Boulevard clutch (top left) caught my eye. I like the design and colour though the monogram puts me off a tad.

The Roxbury Drive bag  (top right) again is a baguette bag that caught my eye for colour rather than design. LV says it can be carried by its strap or by its handle. Personally I think I’d prefer it carried by its handle because it looks a bit awkward carried by the strap.

I liked the red and bronze coloured wallets in vernis leather. However, experience with patent leather on wallets has taught me not to go near it because wallets scratch easily.

And finally, the cute little Heart coin purses. I’d been looking high and low for a nice coin purse for ages. Might this one do it? I wonder what the price is like though. Staggering, I’d expect.