As Jil Sander's £90 Market Bag is hailed as having killed off the It bag, Celia Walden explain why her own infatuation with expensive designer holdalls was only ever short lived
Victoria Beckham, who single-handedly killed off the It Bag
Fashion - hyperbolic beast that it is loves to declare trends "dead". Only then can there be the immense pleasure of bringing them back. Maxis are dead.. and now they're back! Double denim is dead.. but lo and behold, it's back! Years ago, I read that "bottoms" were back. Imagine how mortified I felt, having walked around with my derriere for months, completely oblivious to my enduring faux pas.
But if the vagaries of fashion magazines leave you dizzied, you can seek comfort from the fact that on one subject, at least, they are unanimous: the It bag is dead. Not just dead, but putrid and decomposing, with the interlinked golden Cs on a Chanel flap bag left only to be dug up by archeologists.
