Carrying a little dog in your bag is so 2007. This year, the haute couture is combining the two directly!! Behold the Excessory Baggage, a wry commentary/art by Meryl Smith:
The Honey Space, a usually unattended "no-profit" gallery in a Chelsea warehouse, asked 5 curators to select artists to create works that meet the size and weight requirements of international carry-on luggage. Perhaps inspired by Vuitton's nineteenth-century origins as a maker of upscale traveling cases, Meryl Smith combined leather, papier-mache, gold paint, and a (fake?) LV zipper to create Excessory Baggage. Yes, models and actresses are still accessorizing with little dogs, but why try to smuggle your barking purse pup through security when you could settle for convenient faux taxidermy instead?
Well done but terrifying.
Great commentary on the "taking your tiny dog everywhere in your purse" fad.
Could it that fashion designers are subconciously mocking themselves?
That's exactly what I thought at first!
Yet it is Art, because it makes us look beyond the immediate reaction and find some other idea - perhaps the artist's, perhaps our own original insight.
So remember - even when it is a Vuitton, that leather purse is just a bag made of skin. Skin that an animal was killed for.
I have one in the shape of a chiuaua and my sister has a patterned one in the shape of a pug.
And for people who have heart attacks about leather you can buy them in fabric as well.
That's a bit CREEPY!
Cheers!
Sal