While I am still pining for a Dior Book Tote (each season a new rendition comes out that I love more), there’s a similar bag that recently landed at Dior and the major difference is that this bag offers eight exterior pockets. You may remember this interesting new design from when we first introduced Dior’s Spring 2020 collection and the perfectly curated gardening items that were placed inside.
Fashion can be funny, leaving us wondering if a brand means for something to be taken literally or if the brand took creative freedom and didn’t intend for the product to be quite so on the nose. While I may not want to get a $3,600 Dior tote dirty with my afternoon spent in the garden (which you won’t find me there anyway, I have the opposite of a green thumb plus I have no garden), I am sure there is a group of Dior loving gardening fanatics who would use this bag exactly as it was shown.
The Dior Catherine Tote was a new style introduced by Maria Grazia Chiuri and inspired by Christian Dior’s sister and her love of the garden. Like the Book Tote, the Catherine Tote is fully embroidered with the blue Dior Oblique pattern as well as the Christian Dior signature on the front. Sizing is very comparable between the two totes, with the Book Tote being a bit larger at 41.5 x 35 x 18 cm while the Catherine Tote is 40 x 31 x 19 cm. You can carry the bag by hand or over the shoulder as well.
While the interior may not have any pockets, the exterior offers 8 pockets, perfect for any item you may need that day. If you’re a gardener, you’re covered. If you’re a mom needing a diaper bag, you’re covered. If you’re going off to work, you’re covered. Really, this bag has you covered. We photographed this bag for three different activities to show you the many ways you can carry the versatile Dior Catherine Tote. How would you use it?
$3,600 via Dior.com
The Dior Catherine Tote as a Gardening Bag
The Dior Catherine Tote as a Diaper Bag
The Dior Catherine Tote as a Work Bag
Ahh love this bag and love how you showed it differently. I’d never use this as a garden bag but a baby bag I totally totally would do it!
Perhaps only for work, but $3,600 is a big pill to swallow for this tote!
These photos are so fun and Your daughter is gorgeous megs!
Thank you! She is so sweet and funny and at such a great age!
If you can afford $3600 for a garden tool tote, you can afford a gardener to do the gardening for you so no need for the tote…
I agree
Yes! What Sparky said! Like really? And I love luxury but come on…And someone else mentioned the external compartment…like why? That makes it function as a diaper bag not a business bag.
Ha, I guess some people find a lot of joy in gardening though. Truly, I have the hardest time keeping plants alive
It reminds me of a bag insert. Or a diaper tote. Lol!
That’s why I styled it as a diaper bag – all the pockets for all my kids things! Ha
She’s so cute!
Thank you! She’s at such a fun age!
The handles are too short to carry over shoulder which means you carry it on your lower arms. Which means that if it’s filled with books…probably not going to work. Or anything that’s heavy. Believe me, I’ve made this mistake several times because I get carried away with how the tote looks and didn’t think about the functionality of it.
(And yes, all purse lovers buy bags or have bought bags without thinking about the functionality—that’s the fun part of falling in love with a bag—but for $3600, it would be a tough mistake (for me) to get over.)
That price is unreal. I feel like it should be made of exotic skin for $3,600. But I’m not well-versed in Dior, this might be normal!
I too have been pining over the Dior Book Tote for over a year now … the thing that holds me back from purchasing one … is no interior pockets nothing unless you add a insert which makes it all that much heavier .. so its a black hole as most totes are even at this price range. Which makes me wonder why wouldn’t you add pockets on the inside ?? Its not a cheap bag yet no pockets I don’t get it at $3600 ?? And adding pockets on the ouside .. WTH ? really i am going to put my cell phone, keys etc on an outside pocket walking down the street in NYC. ??? Not !
I hate to say it but one of my all time favs are Tory Burch totes … less expensive adorable yet functional … I use my Ella Quilted mini tote even more so than my Goyard or LV with the insert.