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I’ve Become Entirely Re-Obsessed with the Chanel Boy Bag

The heart wants what it wants

I’m not a Chanel person. I write about Chanel a lot because a lot of handbag people are Chanel people, and because I respect the brand’s storied history in the market and the staggering breadth of its current output, but in my personal taste, the brand’s bags often skew too traditionally feminine to feel natural in my wardrobe. That changed significantly when the brand debuted the Chanel Boy Bag a few years ago—it felt a little tougher and more modern than the Chanel’s other flap bags, with harder corners and a bolder chain. I wanted one immediately, and even put my name on a wait list for an amethyst velvet version at one of New York’s Chanel boutiques.

I never pulled the trigger, though—sometimes life gets in the way of bag-acquiring—and eventually, my wishlist moved elsewhere. That was years ago, but now, I find myself drawn to the Chanel Boy all over again because of the strength of the Boy Bags included in Chanel’s spring pre-collection and collection. They’re just so…pretty. And despite the fact that I’m not a person who commonly values traditional notions of feminine beauty in her wardrobe, I’m having a hard time resisting them.

Whether or not any of these bags would get actual play in my rotation remains to be seen, but sometimes it just takes one piece or one idea to open your mind about what you can wear or carry and still feel like “yourself.” Maybe I can become a person who wears rainbow pastels? And even if I can’t, the current-season iridescent options seem well within reach. Check out some of my current favorite Boy Bags below.

Chanel Boy Bag
$7,900

Chanel Boy Bag
$4,500

Chanel Boy Bag
$4,500

Chanel Boy Bag
$3,100

Chanel Boy Bag
$6,000

Chanel Boy Bag
$4,700

Chanel Boy Bag
$4,300

Chanel Boy Bag
$4,300

Chanel Boy Bag
$5,300

Chanel Boy Bag
$6,400

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