Handbag Designer 101: The Stories Behind Handbag Designers, Brands, and Industry Icons
Sep 7, 2026 · 38 min · 14 segments
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Let's not forget, uh, the Swedish meatball guy that everyone's obsessed with.
It's, it's incredible how sports stars are on the front line of nail bag culture.
Actually, if you wanna speak from an evolution perspective, uh, a fashion evolution perspective, if you wanna go way back, I believe-- I don't know if it's the chicken or the egg, if the basketball players, if the basketball players became the ones to get fancy or if it was Joe Namath from football.
But I know Joe Namath was one of the first who came out, like, decked to the nines, wearing suits and expensive clothes and lots of jewelry, and then people started using him as an unofficial influencer of the time and making sure he was the one that was dressed up.
So little by little, to show the means of your success and the, the fruits of your hundreds of years of, of athletic labor to now constitute, "Let's get dressed up when we go out," I think handbags would've eventually come because it's a flex like anything else.
It's a, it's a status symbol, and it totally makes sense, especially given the, uh, her...
Okay, so I say some outrageous things, so just don't, don't hate me if I say something awful here.
Let's not forget, uh, the Swedish meatball guy that everyone's obsessed with.
It's, it's incredible how sports stars are on the front line of nail bag culture.
Actually, if you wanna speak from an evolution perspective, uh, a fashion evolution perspective, if you wanna go way back, I believe-- I don't know if it's the chicken or the egg, if the basketball players, if the basketball players became the ones to get fancy or if it was Joe Namath from football.
But I know Joe Namath was one of the first who came out, like, decked to the nines, wearing suits and expensive clothes and lots of jewelry, and then people started using him as an unofficial influencer of the time and making sure he was the one that was dressed up.
So little by little, to show the means of your success and the, the fruits of your hundreds of years of, of athletic labor to now constitute, "Let's get dressed up when we go out," I think handbags would've eventually come because it's a flex like anything else.
It's a, it's a status symbol, and it totally makes sense, especially given the, uh, her...
Okay, so I say some outrageous things, so just don't, don't hate me if I say something awful here.
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