The hottest designer handbags for autumn 2021 – from Jennifer Lopez’s Fendi Touch bag, to Maison Margiela’s retro The Swalk II clutch
- The FF buckle is a centrepiece in the Touch bag featured in Fendi’s autumn/winter 2021 collection created by Kim Jones and Silvia Venturini Fendi
- Under the leadership of creative director John Galliano, Maison Margiela’s The Swalk II clutch bag comes with a leather tag adorned with the name of the brand
Without further preamble, here are some of STYLE’s picks of the season’s hottest handbags – all to get you as trendy as J.Lo.
High style and ease of use have not always been happy bedfellows – a lot of couture can be uncomfortable and many luxury accessories are deeply impractical. Fendi is addressing that with the new Touch, the latest of the Italian luxury label’s much-loved leather bags, released as part of its autumn/winter 2021 collection.
The deal here is that the classic FF buckle, which has offered a wide variety of renderings of the brand’s logo over the years, is transformed into the centrepiece of the design, thanks to a clever new mechanism that allows the bag to be opened with a single touch. A practical shoulder bag with a clean, unfussy silhouette, it comes in a range of five colours: black, camel, brown, grey and white. The collection is the work of accessories creative director Silvia Venturini Fendi, and Kim Jones, who took over as women’s artistic director last year.
The Swalk II, the new bag from Maison Margiela’s autumn/winter 2021 collection, takes its name from a film of the same name shot by fashion photographer Nick Knight to accompany the brand’s spring/summer 2021 collection, in which the bag was introduced. A charming retro frame clutch bag, it features a curved brass handle inlaid with calf leather, a silk-lined crochet raffia clasp and a separate chain strap. It comes in two sizes and two colours – red and black – in reference to the colours in the tango scenes that feature in the film.