Rebecca Minkoff

Confession: when I was at the mall last week, I went into a store and saw a turquoise and black leopard-print silk top and WANTED IT SO BAD. So much about it was not my style – the frills it had at the collar, the banded waist, the neckline that wouldn’t allow me to wear a bra, which is not an optional garment in my neck of the woods.

It was shiny and 80s and more than a little tacky, and I loved it all the more as a result. Sadly, the store was sold out of my size and I didn’t have the heart to send a salesgirl searching through the stacks in the back, having had to search through those stacks at a long-ago jobs once myself. However, I might have found a suitable substitute in handbag form: the Rebecca Minkoff Leopard-Print Canvas Tote.

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I know, I know, you were hoping to see another fabulous Rebecca Minkoff bag. But, as you might have been aware, the designer has branched out with a line of flirty clothing and fierce leather and metal bracelets. I personally adore what Rebecca Minkoff has done with the small collection of bracelets- in an interesting Hermes-esque turn, she’s managed to connect the general feel of the bracelets to the current handbags, creating a cohesive group including both the bags and the bracelets.

Take the intricate Flowerstud Bracelet, for instance. It perfectly matches the reinvention of the studs on the Linear Stud Rocker Bag by pairing small and big studs in linear patterns. Perhaps next we’ll see mixed-metal studs on a bracelet? I’d like that.

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Who doesn’t love free stuff? I know that I absolutely do, and free handbags are one of the best free things that I can think of.

Well, Bloomingdale’s wants to give you a whole set of free Rebecca Minkoff handbags, plus a few cute little accessories too. The contest runs through January 31, and there’s no purchase required to enter! So what are you waiting for?

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As you can imagine, the Rebecca Minkoff Leopard Baby Bag inspires a multitude of questions. Chief among them, however, is one that has been at the back of my mind since I started writing for this blog: why are baby bags so often patterned?

My status as a childless woman probably means that there are a few finer points to baby bag choice that I don’t entirely understand, but as best as I can surmise, a pattern provides two possible conveniences: first, some types of pattern hide wear pretty well. Second, the prissy pink paisleys that usually characterize baby bags announce to the world that the owner does, in fact, have a child. Although I think that they baby they’re likely also carrying should be enough to make that clear.

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I recently wrote about Lindsay Lohan over on Bag That Style when she was enjoying some R&R in St. Bart’s. Nothing really that noteworthy, but seeing her carry her Rebecca Minkoff Stud Rocker Bag I was reminded of how much I love that bag. More than that, I was reminded of how much I love Rebecca Minkoff for sticking true to what she knows best – making great handbags that we all want. She’s known for reinventing a classic style and in a way making it slightly different or better than the original without straying far from it.

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I can completely envision the quintessential Rebecca Minkoff girl toting this awesome bag. You know that fabulous photo that comes up on her website of the girl wearing the massive squiggly fur vest? That’s the one- and if I had a fur vest, there’s no doubt in my mind that I’d pair it with this Rebecca Minkoff Lovespell Rocker Bag.

The Lovespell Rocker manages to combine rocker with bohemian in an entirely unique and new way. Allow me to explain. Rebecca Minkoff continues with the rocker trend by incorporating her signature studs, but the addition of a line of leather fringe at the bottom and stitching among the metal makes for an artsy collective. It’s a new direction, to be sure, but it’s innovative and is suitable for twice as many types of personal style.

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There’s nothing that makes me think of summer quite like a cool white bag. Warm whites (with ivory undertones) always make me think of ski slopes and winter, but cool white (with blue undertones) makes me want to sip a Corona with lime someplace warm, sandy, and virtually deserted.

Since the weather in Georgia this past weekend was roughly the same as the weather in New York City (I didn’t sign up for this!), I’ve got to thank the Rebecca Minkoff Fringe Darling in Marshmallow for reminding me that soon enough, I’ll be wearing sundresses and complaining about the heat.

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I was completely taken off guard when I came across this tote. When I looked at it, I thought Kate Spade. Then I glanced over and realized that this bag was in fact a Rebecca Minkoff design. Speaking of being taken off guard, I was actually a bit shocked to see this shape and the bright colors during the winter months. Yet, no matter how confused I may have been, I can take a step back and actually enjoy this tote.

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Every now and then, we like to feel like we provide a public service here at PurseBlog. You need handbag knowledge, we have the resources to provide it.

And there’s an unending amount of handbag knowledge to be gained about the bags that the characters on Gossip Girl carry, so we thought we might drop a little on you today. It’s our job, after all.

In this week’s episode, we spotted Hilary Duff’s Olivia character carrying a bag by one of our favorites: the Rebecca Minkoff Fringe Darling Hobo. This bag is the slightly more complicated version of the lovely Rebecca Minkoff Darling Hobo, another bag that we absolutely love.

Any bag that’s carried on this show looks totally glam by association, and they do a great job of picking their wardrobe overall. But this bag is the real deal, we think. Buy through Luna Boston for $495.

We’ve covered Rebecca Minkoff clutches more than a few times, but the latest incarnation of the signature clutch, this Rebecca Minkoff Croc Clutch, has completely blown my socks off- if that’s not a legitimate expression, than it should be. That’s all not to mention that I heard about this clutch in an entirely new way. How, you ask? My mother called me to rhapsodize about it.

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