A history of the most timeless bags to shop now—from the Birkin to the Baguette.
In 1989, Gianfranco Ferré began his appointment as creative director for the house of Dior. One of his most lasting contributions to the brand is unquestionably the Lady Dior bag. As the story goes, in 1995, Bernadette Chirac, the wife of French president Jacques Chirac, rang up Dior with a request: She wanted the maison to craft a custom bag that would be gifted toon her visit to Paris. The resulting design was, appropriately, fit for a princess.
Like the posture required of such a lady, the bag didn’t and couldn’t slouch—and perhaps nodded to Monsieur Dior’s design philosophy: “I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings,” he once said. The Lady Dior bag was also crafted with a pair of demi-arched handles and yellow gold hardware. The prim purse was presented to Princess Diana at a Cézanne exhibition at the Grand Palais, and she wore it on subsequent visits to Birmingham, England, and Argentina.
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