Thank the heavens, Kate Spade, that you have hired new talent to guide your company’s creative vision. Because, if I’m being honest, things at your line were getting a bit played out. One can only see so many bags designed with perfect right angle corners before the square and rigid thing gets a little blah.
And the Kate Spade Westbury Opus Satchel isn’t exactly an opus of innovation, it does something that no other Kate Spade bag in recent memory has done: it slouches. And it looks soft and makes me want to touch it. To me, Spade’s bags have always been prohibitively rigid and uninviting, and that’s not the best look for a bag, particularly with the trends that we have going right now. I particularly like this color, which they call Piscine Blue – wouldn’t it look great against a white dress? Buy through Bloomingdale’s for $395.
hey amanda!
I know a while ago you asked for comments so I even though its not related to this post, its the latest post so this should work!
I am a college student and I want a cute messenger bag for classes. I need it to be somewhat large (enough for a laptop and maybe a notebook or two). Preferably leather and not too horribly expensive.
Do you know of any brands or specific options I should look into?
Thanks!
Morgan
I just saw a bunch of new Kate Spade at nordstrom and was really suprised! Bright colors, super soft leather, really wonderful to touch!! Now I see why they seem so different from previous KS I’ve seen- hope the new talent keeps this up!
Huge improvement on some of her regular designs. I do like structured bags but I think it was becoming a bit much. The colour looks lovely – would love to see it IRL.
I love Kate Spade, I really do. That being said her bags have gotten so incredibly boring over the past few years.
I think this bag is better, especially the color. But it is still kind of ‘mehh’ to me. Still a little boring. We all love classic, but god would it kill them to mix it up a little?
i really, really like this one. so much so, that it has inspired my first post here on PB savvy!!