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Clutch Bags March On

 Is imagesit just me or is time flying by? It seems like just yesterday I was packing my weekend bag for Winter vacation, wrapping Christmas presents, and drafting my New Year’s resolutions, and now, all of a sudden it’s the sixty-fourth day of 2013! If you, like me, are not totally sure about where all of that time went, use this post as a guideline as to what is memorable about March.

Transitioning from February to March doesn’t only mark a change of climactic and fashion seasons, but also a change of focus. Now, ladies, before you start worrying about updating your wardrobe with this Spring’s latest must-haves, remember that every Clutch Bag is versatile Adeleenough to withstand the trend of any season!

While the month of February celebrated the beauty of humanity’s products–such as fashion, film, and music– through events like The Grammy’s and Fashion Week, March celebrates the beauty of humanity itself. Through a bundle of holidays that commemorate doctors, saints, and women, this month stresses humanity’s most admirable qualities:

Clutch Bags Styling Mother

Cool Moms

 

Oh, Mothers, Mothers everywhere!  How we do love you and what you wear!

Oh, yes, how true it is.  I believe this to be the perfect time of year for us at Clutch Bags NY to pay tribute to your mom and give her credit for what she has shared with you in terms of traditions, manners and fashion.  Have you ever thought about where your taste or sense of fashion has sprung from?  Or who has influenced it?  Have you ever thought about why you like to wear, look or touch certain handbags or fabrics?  Quite possibly, your fashion sensibility has been influenced by your mother.  Remember  when you were just a wee one and you were not able to even dress yourself?  Who dressed you?  And then, when you were able to pick out certain items of clothing to put on and decided that you could dress yourself at the age of 3, who was there to guide you?  Hands down, it was most likely your mom.  Whether you were watching her coordinate her shoes to her handbag, or helping her find the right earrings for the dress, you were in the vicinity to be influenced by her taste and her style.

Now, some of you I am sure are cringing, thinking that you cannot possibly have been influenced by your mom’s polyester pantsuits or yellow go-go boots.   Continue reading

White Bright Designer Hand Bags : Clutch Bags says “Keep It Light”

White is not just a color. It’s an attitude.  Take a look, open your eyes.  White is making its appearance in the form of hip and cool.  Yeh!  The color white has finally arrived!  It has taken quite a few years in the fashion journey for white to creep  down to this level;  the no frills street level that is.  Sure, white is nice.  It is pure. It is sweet. It is bridal, first communion,  innocence, purity  and cleanliness.  It is also bright, fresh, and blinding.  It is so very  healing and germ free.  Let’s face it,  it is the king of all neutrals. Continue reading

New York City Dance Inspiration for Designer Handbags

Great new video by Clutch Bags NY featured photographer and videographer Demetrius Fordham. Demetrius was instumental in helping us capture on film all of the great street scenes showing off all our collection of Designer Handbags and purses and all things clutch bags. What he also brings is such a great sense of street style that our readers have come to expect from our blog showing off all the latest trends being worn on the streets of New York.

New York Fashion Week shows off Houndstooth

Houndstooth at New York Fashion Week

 

This past week gave us a tremendous peek into what’s coming for Fashion and overall Style in the months ahead. One fun observation is the photo montage below captured by none other than Alex Thompson, our man on the street. Could this first shot be none other than, oh you guess.

Not sure if the houndstooth is here to stay but Continue reading

Forgive me but I love Fur in Winter

I love fur in the winter

Laura Dotolo

 

As I was walking across town this afternoon, with the wind at my face, the sun setting and the temperature plummeting down, all I could do to stay warm was to dig deep in my pockets and be thankful I had my vintage mink fur hat and trimmed coat.  I do feel thankful we’re not Continue reading

New York Fashion Week

street style by Clutch Bags NY

 

What a week’s it has been in New York celebrating Fashion Week.  New York clearly established itself as the capital of fashion in the US again this past week.  There were so many great runway show’s and parties but I thought i would dedicate this particular post to the attendees and not the models and designers. It is so interesting Continue reading

Mail Bag as photographed by Demetrius Fordham

Clutch Bags Mail Bag

Wow!  How Urban New York is this image of a gorgeous Alvin Ailey  dancer twirling with the white leather shoulder bag from Clutch Bags?

When I asked Demetrius Fordham if he wanted to shoot his choice of a bag from the Clutch Bags Collection, he knew exactly  how he was going to approach it. I have to admit as well, I know D’s style of photography, so I could almost picture this image in my head before he captured it. Demetrius is a photographer with vision, perseverence and talent. Continue reading

Designer Clutch Bag as photographed by Shana Novak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How great is this image?  What a fantastic still life.  This is the second image in a series that Clutch Bags New York is doing in collaboration with talented professional photographers in NYC. I have asked colleagues of mine in the photography world, to shoot any handbag of their choice from the  designer ClutchBags.com collection, any way they would like, in keeping with their own creative style.   Continue reading