The last Chanel bag! Thank goodness! In fact, Chanel is not my favor. I do not like its conceited Creative Director Karl Lagerfeld. I do not like its vintage interlace chain. I do not like its reissue Chanel 2.55, even its stereotypical black & white palette, and badly innovative creation. However, I have to find its beauty. Well, since this Large Shopping Bag in Stitched Aged Metalized Calfskin is at the top, I believe it must have distinctive glamour.

Frankly speaking, I did not say any remarkable feat in Chanel’s design and craftsmanship from this Classical Stitched Vinyl Bag. It is said that all of the creative elements of Chanel’s branding are immensely, luxuriously over the top in ways that few other brands can touch, except Louis Vuitton. However, I cannot say any creative elements from this bag. What Karl Lagerfeld did is just revamping- interpreting vintage Chanel 2.55 in a new way- not yet in trendy way, just changing quilting pattern to flower plus CC logo.

Fashion designers excel at monument-building: witness the rise of towers in cities like Tokyo and Shanghai. These multistory shops sell clothes and purses, but they also serve to remind people of the power of a brand in a noisy consumerist world.
Coco Chanel left a real monument to modern bag: Chanel 2.55. What will her inheritor bring to us? Chanel Bowling Bag. Mr. Lagerfeld’s motives, if not entirely innocent, were simple. Chanel Bowling Bag is simple. Pure white calfskin is decorated without any accessory except stitches. Vintage interlaced chain shoulder strap is borrowed from the vintage design in Chanel 2.55 bag. It comes from when the children’s caretakers in the orphanage would dangle keys from their waists with the same type of chains as on the Reissue. That is all. That is Chanel Bowling Bag. That is Mr. Lagerfeld. Forever metallic “CC” logo twinkles on the bag, telling you its long- long story.
Chanel Bowling Bag offers women like Lagerfeld the luxury of concentrating on a single idea. The whiteness of the bag- the white grain calfskin with white thread, the white leather strap interlacing with silver chain strap- reinforced that motion. Lagerfeld was like a fly that dropped onto a leaf [...]