Chiropractors, look away now. Carrying your laptop and make-up bag under one arm isn’t going to do much for your posture, but it’s now a desirable look thanks to the spring/summer 2024 runways. At Ferragamo, The Row and Tod’s (among others), roomy everyday bags were hooked into the elbow, showing it’s sometimes not so much about the bag, as how you hold it.
In the round
Spherical bags were big for autumn/winter 2023, and the same was true in the spring/summer 2024 collections, with scooped shoulder bags appearing at Isabel Marant and Hermès, and more compact circles at Ralph Lauren and Louis Vuitton.
Everything but the kitchen sink
As mentioned, this was a season of extremes, and juxtaposed with those micro bags were totes so colossal they’ll inevitably invite questions about where it is you’re heading off to. Ferragamo, The Row, Prada and Victoria Beckham all showed takes on the fits-your-whole-life-in carry-on – extra fashion points for shoving the whole thing under your arm.
