Celebrity Style and Fashion

Our sister site, BagThatStyle, dishes on celebrity style daily. While the majority of that type of content can be found on BtS, we still like to add a little celebrity style in the mix on PurseBlog too.

On Tuesday night, I plopped down on my couch and put on the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, like many of you probably did as well. First off, can I ask why we all subject ourselves to this amazing misery? While their bodies are still out of this world beautiful, the Angels are curvier compared to runway models (though a slim Karlie Kloss made her debut this year). So, there I was on my couch in my unflattering PJ’s next to my husband watching nearly nude models on TV for one hour. I did this while eating a bag of M&M’s. Clearly, I felt awesome afterwards.

Oh, to be Lady Gaga. The world adores you, designers pine to make ornate crazy couture items for you, and you have by far the coolest and most moving commercial (Google Chrome) on TV this year.

But the main reason I am envying Lady Gaga right now is because Karl Lagerfeld designed a one-of-a-kind Chanel bag to be paired with her Chanel Haute Couture white tweed dress with black trim. Accessorizing her dress are Chanel pearls, camelias and bows while her white bag features one black and one white flower applique. If you wonder why Lady Gaga had this amazing Chanel moment, it is because of the launch of Gaga’s Workshop for Barneys NY.

Image via Fashionista.com

At the risk of adding to the furious, endless, 24-hour Kardashian news cycle, the sisters have a new handbag line. A new handbag line in…Australia? Theirs is a global empire of PVC knockoffs, after all. Anyway, we caught them hawking a nearly detail-for-detail copy of the Botkier Clyde Bag via their Sears-based Kardashian Kollection a couple of months ago, and now it seems that the sisters (or whoever designs their cheap crap) are taking their “inspired” handbags to the land down under. Fashionista.com matched up the stock images of the new Kardashibags to their designer equivalents, and although some of them are a bit of a stretch, a couple are clear derivations. Does this tactic bother you? Personally, I was more irritated when they did it to Botkier, which is a smaller independent brand.

Check out one of the more egregious examples after the jump, or see them all at Fashionista.com.

We try and make it a point to do Man Bag Monday for one reason and one reason only – bags made for men can be every bit as stylish and beautiful as those made for women, and a lot of them are so nice that I wouldn’t think twice about carrying one. Androgyny is in! Just as Andrej Pejic.

And that’s what kept me so transfixed by these pictures that Vlad took of Brad Goreski outside of the Salvatore Ferragamo Resort 2012 show in New York a few weeks ago. His Louis Vuitton Keepall 45 Bandouliere could be carried by literally anyone and look chic.

As many of you know, we also write a delightful little celebrity style blog called Bag That Style, where we attempt to identify the accessories (and anything else) worn by celebrities in their day-to-day lives. It’s not all that often that a handbag stumps me, considering that I spend most of my workday over here with you guys, but it does happen occasionally.

Today, it’s Amanda Seyfried who has a bag that I can’t identify. We’ve also asked for help from PurseBlog’s 35,000 Twitter followers, and they didn’t know either. That might be because the bag is vintage – it certainly looks worn in this shot, but who knows anymore – or because it’s brand new and not many people have seen it yet. Take a look at the close-up after the jump and let us know if you have a guess.

Images via Vogue Taiwan

There was a time when huge celebrities who largely avoided domestic advertising in order to maintain their pristine images for fans did ad campaigns overseas for big bucks and Americans were none the wiser. That time was before the Internet, and it has very clearly passed. Via Vogue Taiwan, we now have a peek at Gwyneth Paltrow‘s first ads as the international brand ambassador for Coach.

If you watched Newlyweds back in the day like I did (and I did it without shame, thankyouverymuch), then you know that Jessica Simpson is an inveterate bag lover just like the rest of us. She toted a lot of multicolore Louis Vuitton at the time because that was the hot new thing, but now that Jessica has gotten older (and richer – that shoe line she has is no joke, y’all), she’s made a bit of an upgrade: an orange Hermes Birkin. Although based on the rest of the photo, it’s kind of refreshing to see that Jessica sits around the house in the same pajamas she had back then.