In addition to the Simone Handbags Museum, Bagstage features the flagship store of onineonefour, a multi-brand handbag shop, rent- free store spaces for promising designers, a workshop where anybody can enjoy the experience od handbag-making, and a space where various leather materials are exhibited and sold. Bagstage will showcase the past of handbags through the museum; the present of handbags through the store that offerthe latest innovations and new trends in the handbags industry; and the future of handbags through the display of oblects and idias by ip-and-coming designers.
Table of contents
1-A history of containment 11
2-Beginning with bages 23
3-The collection 33
4-The making of a museum of handbages 209
5-The evolution of pose 231
6-The uniform on the street: The fashionable handbage in 1912 235
7-Specimens 243
8-A terminology pertaining to handbages 257
9-The collection overview 266
10-Note to the text 268
11-Acknowledgements 270
12-Contributors 271