Katie Holmes Style: Hermes HAC
1.17.2008 | by Megs | under: Celebrity Style , Hermes Handbags
Katie Holmes has gone from the girl on the Creek, to the girl with the wacko husband, to the girl who dresses 10 years older than her age. I liked her on the Creek and I also love her chic style these days (though like I said she looks much older than she actually is). And now she is carrying a bag that literally weighs half her body weight, I kid you not.
Katie Holmes has been seen sporting a Hermes HAC around town, though not for travel, for day-to-day wear. The HAC, Haut a Courrois, was actually the original ‘Birkin’. The HAC and the Birkin are indeed different; the HAC is taller than the Birkin and the handles are shorter. The HAC comes in a 28, 32, and 36 cm size whereas the Birkin is available in 25, 30, 35, and 40. The debate is on as to the size of Katie’s HAC. I am sticking to my original assessment, it is a 50 cm HAC, but many members of our Purse Forum think it is a 40 cm. I am taking into account that Katie is very thin and 5′9, and since she and I are about the same height it looks very similar to the 50 cm I have tried on. The next debate is the leather and color. My guess, Fjord in Rouge VIF, but again, there are so many Hermes reds and I can be wrong. What many of us are in agreement on is that this bag is far too large for Katie. In my opinion this bag is meant for travel, not to carry to Good Morning America. What could she need to carry inside the show? Suri? Tom? A space ship? Anyhow, this bag will cost around $8,900, give or take, depending on the size and leather.
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Um, I think that she couldn’t decide what to wear on the show and brought several changes of clothes and lots of shoes and other handbags with her. As you can see, she is still wearing her bathrobe… I’m really sorry for her. She usually looks great (although older than her actual years), but this is just a fashion faux pas. Maybe Posh told her that it looked good?
Is she serious with this as a handbag, it looks like an overnight bag. It is definitely a beautiful bag, and I would love to own one for my weekends to Atlantic City.
The bag is too big for daily wear and Hermes or not I don´t like the model nor the color.
The HAC definitely comes in the 40cm size. There was one at my local boutique recently which I passed on, as I already have a 40 birkin in the same color - no need to have the two bags. The tag was $9100 before taxes.
I agree, though, unless this is carry-on luggage, this is too heavy a bag for this small girl to carry around as a handbag, unless it’s her work briefcase. Even so, these are heavy!
I think she has both her husband and his ex nicole in that bag!!!-I travel very light so I could use that bag as my only bag to travel around the world but I am not a fan of hermes
she has her scientology books in there…that bag looks waaaayyyy too big and looks odd on her.
Tooooo funny!
i have been thinking the same thing lately about her…after seeing her on alot of talk shows lately, i just dont like her style, it doesnt suit her…i think she is a natural cutie, and when she tries to hard, it just doesnt work…she needs to let her hair down(literally, whats up with dorky bob?) and stop trying to dress so old and sophisticated, geez, she’s not even 30 yet…
is this the same red birkin that the husband gave her for her birthday that cost $10000 dollars?!
So that’s what HAC means! It’s huge!
Love the colour.
With that haircut and sunglasses, she reminds me of Anna Wintour.
Great bag, wrong use, person etc.
Love the color, I would take it off her hands in a NYM
HAC it up - Hermes or not, that’s just WRONG. Maybe she hides from the paparazzi in it when she needs a fast getaway.
I so agree with you Pursecrzy! Very Anna Wintour of Vogue!
i think the bag is awesome..but i guess she’s too petite for HER (please refer to hermes’ bags as you were speaking of Goddesses)..i agree she looks older in this new look but it’s better than the one she sported in paris last summer or whenever it was..
i want her shopping budget 
That bag is ridiculous! It looks like “look how much we can afford to spend on stuff!” She used to look so cute and young and now she looks like she’s 40 dragging around a giant Hermes bag (with probably nothing in it).
Maybe she has tons of cash inside the bag to get away from her husband just in case he acts like an insane kid again.
I go back and forth between liking her look and hating it. It does seem that since she married Tom, she has been trying to hard to look like a fashion plate.
I think the “bathrobe” is actually a coat though.
Jennifer, yes, it is definitely a coat. I was just being sarcastic.
Sorry…I realized that after I made the comment. That’s what too much coffee will do to you at 9pm.
WAY too big for her…Hmmmm, I was thinking it was a bathrobe too…. ****big grin****
On the flip side, I think she does look much better with shorter hair and fancier duds, but you are right, she doesn’t look her age anymore…she was such a cute tomboy in DC!!
I like Katie but this bag is way too big for her.
Okay, you can spend 10 grand on a bag, congradulations. And the worst part is you know there’s nothing inside of it… because it would be too heavy for her.
Obnoxious. She looks like a cartoon figure — I’d call her Miss Silly Moneybags. Let them eat cake. Recession? What recession? Credit crunch? Mortgage crisis? That’s for poor people. Now get out of my path.
She needs to take that bag with her on the spaceship. Right-on Megs. Case of the bag carrying the girl.
I was initially going to say, if KH wants to cart a big bag around, let her but having seen the photo of the bag, it REALLY REALLY is HUGE. Not only for her but even for a sumo wrestler!! Great looking bag though.
Enough bagging
of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise.
Isn’t this Kate Holmes? God, I’m so sick of her face! Too dumb!! And a big red birkin 50cm? She must be soo STUPID!! It doesn’t looks good on her. It looks like she ordered it from Bluefly.com where they sell the Birkin 50cm or less? Moron!
Oxox,
Anna Girl
Goodness! That’s huge! HUGE for a daily bag! So what’s next? Ask Hermes custom made a gold plated (or maybe solid gold) birkin?!!
Goddamn! That bag is both huge and overpriced - I don’t care if it is a “Hermes.” Tossers!
However, as long as Katie is happy with it, whatever.
Love the bag but her style as many people have mention is a little too older than her age. Remember that crazy period when her and Tom first came out? I thought her style there was good and age appropiate but now it seems Victoria Beckham has influenced her look onto her. I do love Victoria Beckham b/c she is never boring.
Still the bag rocks.
She looks like a little girl playing dress-up in mommy’s clothes and handbag…er…soft-sided suitcase!
I agree with anti-fashionist. Whatever.
Poor Katie….she darling, but the bag has to go…..waaaay to large for her. With all her options….she need to relax and settle into her own style. Too many consultants and advise.
I think she is a stepford wife!!!!
Oh good god! That bag is big enough to hold all the mysteries of the universe. And does Xenu have a dress code that Katie is bound by law to adhere to? She always looks 15 or more years older than she is. Blech! She is so exhausting.
The bag is wearing her. Too big, trying too hard. The color is gorgeous though–it would be better as a Birkin.
Beautiful bag, brilliant Color, It sure did made a lot of noise…
Would love to have one in smaller size!
SHE IS IN A BATHROBE, what is she thinking
Love the color of the bag but no way is it meant to be a handbag, the girl needs a keeper to help her get dressed, and I don’t mean loopy hubby
BTW, give me the Kelly over a Birkin any day
1) It’s a diversion technique : People concentrate on her bag instead of herself.
2) It’s far too HUGE for her. You can literally fold her up & put her in the bag
I hafta say, this style looks like an overpriced grocery bag, lol. The proportions and handles are like a paper shopping bag (no offense to those who like it, JMO
i totally agree with pursecrzy, she does look like Anna Wintour
, i really hate the colour.
As far as the bag goes, its way too big and as difficult as this is to say (it’s a BIRKIN)
Um, if the bag is big enough for the carrier to climb inside and sit comfortably, it’s too big.
Haha . . . like Cleopatra making an entrance rolled up in a carpet, Katie Holmes could make an entrance by climbing inside the bag and having someone else carry it!
Not only would it make an entrance, it’s a great paparazzi deterrent!
Is Tom in there?
OMG, that bag is ridiculously HUGE. it looks cartoonish. i don’t like it at all. a birkin looks way better IMO.
My husband says this looks like she could say “OMG I can put all my scientology in there.”
A HAC is not a Birkin, just for those of you that were calling it one
And a HAC can look very classy, they come in smaller sizes and she’d probably look really great with a 32 cm one.
That is absolutely laughable :roll:! The only possible purpose of this is to show how “special” she is - she got a custom-made, super-expensive Birkin without waiting years for it. Problem is, she looks like a candidate for Go Fug Yourself.
If she had any girlfriends, I’m sure they would be complimenting her lavishly to her face, and giggling themselves to pieces behind her back. It looks ridiculous. And it would take so very little adjustment for her to look absolutely fabulous. At 5′9″, I think she could carry even a 40 cm Birkin beautifully.
That’s the biggest bag I have ever seen in my life. You could fit an Olsen in it. Gorgeous though. I’d take it - if it were free.
Oh no no no no …. soooo WRONG! I hate that she obviously tries too hard to be like her BFF Victoria Beckham, who is waaay older than her. She was cuter before. The bag is ok, though not for everyday use.
thats what you called a coykat.she doesnt have any style at all.what she normally does is to ask her BFF posh for tips what to wear and not what to wear but posh is like an alien even if she wears the most expensive clothes designed to wear.the coat looks like a quilt to start with and the hermes (although its expensive) looks like a shopping bag used by older people.come on katie you can be better than that.i know your married to that eccentric husband of yours which is much older than you but you can still dressed up your age unless you are being told by your bossy welcome to earth husband.
so so so sooooooooooo cut
The poor dear has indeed been spending too long with Posh!The size does look like a 50cm and the colour highlights that this is a size too ambitious for Katie. She should send it to those of us who can wear a bag, not the other way around!
WOW! That’s the biggest bag I have ever laid eyes on. It doesn’t do KH any justice. It’s way too BIG. Even a sumo wrestler will look ridiculous with it
If I were so lucky as to have a bag like that, which is nearly the value of my car, hell I’d use it everyday, massive or not. Come on. You’d have to get your use out of it x