The Classic Box Bag was introduced in 2010, so I've had ample time to examine my feelings on it but somehow just haven't. I've always known I thought it was beautiful�CI've never seen a version of it that made me feel skeptical�Cbut until recently, it wasn't a bag I pictured in my own wardrobe. Maybe I'm just a little older now, or my personal taste has evolved just enough to appreciate something so traditionally beautiful not just as an idea, but as a thing I could have and use myself.
If you've never examined one of these bags up close, but I'd certainly recommend it. Not only is the exterior a perfect illustration of Celine's particular sort of chic restraint, but the materials the bag is made with are absolutely gorgeous, both inside and outside. The interior is separated in a way that's always reminded me of the world's most luxurious accordion folder, but with butter-soft lambskin instead of thin cardboard dividers.
The neat interior organization seems fit for a person who has a precise number of small, chic things to put in her bag every day. I, on the other hand, have always been a bit more unruly in my accessories habits, but there's nothing to say I can't evolve. Maybe I can be orderly. Maybe I can be a version of myself that carries this bag. Isn't that, after all, what we're all hoping when we get dressed?When you write about something for a living, it's easy to look at it and think, ��Will people like this?�� instead of, ��Do I like this?�� How a particular design plays to the market at large and to our readers is always the first thing on my mind when I see a handbag; my personal opinion whether or not I'd carry it in my leisure time is way down the list of my concerns. That, I think, is why it's taken me so many years to acknowledge my intense love for the Celine Classic Box Bag.