Introducing: the Burberry BSeries

Last month, former Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci sent his first collection for Burberry down the runway and one thing became apparently clear: new designer = new logo = a brand new Burberry. With this new Burberry comes a brand new sales tactic that Burberry is calling #BSeries. Burberry first grabbed consumers attention for its new … Read more

If You Send Your Bag to Hermès For Service and They Think It’s Fake, They Keep It and Destroy It

I said goodbye on Friday, but I’m back from the dead for one more post that I just couldn’t leave without writing. (Hey, it’s almost Halloween, after all!) It involves a bunch of the most things about this weird industry: the cult of Hermès, the wild secondary designer bag market, Europe’s cultural attitude toward their … Read more

Today is Amanda’s Last Day!

In 2006, I did a Google search that changed my life. I don’t remember the exact name of the designer whose bag I was trying to find on sale—it was an indie contemporary label that is now long gone—but it brought me to a post about one of the designer’s bags on PurseBlog, a site … Read more