Those in the know are very much aware that handbags which are made in high-quality leather materials can cost an arm and a leg. They come in varied shapes and sizes but one thing is constant. They are not for the ordinary.
One famous fashion brand known for luxury leather bags is Bottega Veneta. Italian label Bottega Veneta has something of a split personality.
In its home city of Milan, there are two major outposts – one in the shopping mecca and luxury goods Valhalla of Montenapoleone, alongside the likes of Armani and Louis Vuitton, and one on the Piazza del Duomo, home to the vast and bombastic, neo-gothic monolith for which the city is famed.
These are the label’s public face, where elite squads of upmarket shoppers convene to partake of creative director Tomas Maier’s vision.
His work has long been critically acclaimed but somehow, in the past four seasons or so, the 57-year-old German designer has ramped up his output by a notch, and given it real edge, marking Bottega Veneta out as one of the luxury-goods brands (in which handbags cost upwards of a thousand pounds and even jeans come with a four-figure price tag) to sail through the stormy seasonal projections.
Bottega Veneta is not a luxury label like any other. In accordance with the manifesto on its wall, all that is expensive, luxe and even remotely status-worthy about its products is understated. Impeccable but impassive, and conspicuous only to the cognoscenti.
Celebrities such as Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger and Reese Witherspoon have been spotted with the Cabat over one arm, while the label is name-checked by almost every rapper obsessed with the upper-end of the upmarket – which is most of them. That’s saying something in a culture that normally worships rather more obvious opulence.
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