Handbags opens with a brief history, tracing the development from the earliest days to the 1940s postwar period, when a lack of traditional materials saw designers turn to alternatives such as wood and plastic. The majority of the book then concentrates on the modern age, discussing the designers from the postwar period up to the present day. Included are the incredible designers and fashion houses so familiar to all fashion devotees. But Handbags also examines the lesser known designers, who produce eclectic creations for fashionistas who really want to make a statement. Today's designers have none of the constraints of their elders and allow their imagination and style to take them to places that would not have been considered in the last century. Wonderful, large full-colour photographs show off these beautiful and glamorous fashion items
