Fashionable Handbags-A Girl’s Best Friend

Your handbag is a great value for the money because it is an extension of your style, and one of the best ways to express your personality. So, every self-possessed girl knows that the value of a handbag is much more than just monetary. They make our lives brighter with their buttery soft, leathery confines.
Fashion waits for no woman and collections for spring/summer 2009 are already tottering along catwalks in London, Paris and New York. But with credit crunching the way it is, diamonds are off of most people’s shopping lists. In 2009, we can look to the not-so-humble handbag to bring us a refreshing burst of glamor that will keep us looking (and feeling) like we’re living the life, even if we’re not. With a price tag to suit.
Cheet’s ‘Monroe’ collection epitomizes heyday glamor and opulence. Each bag is named after film characters played by inimitable style icon, Marilyn; a woman who’s appeal continues unabated nearly 50 years after her mysterious death. Cheet’s up and coming designer, Emily Cheetham, wanted to pay homage to a star who remains a source of constant enchantment to her and thousands of others.
Lift your spirits with some Hollywood magic
With Monroe’s hold on the collective imagination as strong as ever, the style she came to represent is the perfect antidote to the doom and gloom of the financial markets if ever there was one. Hell, even during her well documented bleak periods, she was always glowing, immaculately turned out and cheerful. We could all do with a bit of that spirit right now.
Winner of the London Fashion Forum’s accessories designer of the year award in 2006, Emily chose a season of discreet luxury to remember a woman who favored understatement and embodied femininity. Handbags, totes and clutches in supple leathers and a sophisticated palette, all finished with the distinctive details with which Cheet has become associated. Versatile yet distinctive, 2009 blends modern metropolitan living and casual, timeless pieces, with worldwide and lasting appeal.
“Creating textural interest was my focus” says Emily. “The beauty lies in offsetting simple shapes with intricate details and supple, luxurious ‘naked ‘ goat and calf leather. And the muted palette of mushroom, graffiti, putty and iris works perfectly with the woven jute fabric in glitzy silver and gold.”
Spring/Summer 2009 collection highlights include Sugar Frame (inspired by Sugar Kane in ‘Some Like It Hot’) is a neat, frame bag with stunning piped and plaited fitting on the front flap which is available in graffiti, cement, iris, and mushroom. The Nell Shoulder/clutch (inspired by Nell Forbes in ‘Don’t Bother to Knock’) echoes the style of the Sugar bag. Its removable strap transforms it into a long or short versatile shoulder bag; available in graffiti, cement, iris, mushroom. Finally, the Rose Slouchy Bag (inspired by Rose Loomis in ‘Niagara’) is a wonderfully soft leather slouchy flap bag with plaited leather details and macramé handles, in graffiti, cement, iris or mushroom.
Find out your softer side
The best part is that even when you have difficulties because of lack of money, you can indulge yourself to a Cheet luxury. I advised you that you should not ditch the diamonds and expect get to know your softer side again. Required to be tactile and built for life, there is a “Monroe” for all of us. Experience an everlasting love event between woman and bag that makes us feel fabulous, look amazing good and carry daily items such as phone numbers, tissues and make-up, and, if only for the moment, forget those boring “crucial time” for the Blues.