Kelly Bag
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The Kelly bag is a hand crafted since 1935 ladies handbag luxury fashion brand Hermès, which is named after the actress and Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly since 1956. The bag is a classic fashion design and is today produced in numerous variants. It is considered one of the most famous ladies handbag models at all.
History
The then specialized in saddles, saddle bags and luggage company Hermès brought the later Kelly Bag 1935 " Petit Sac Haut à Courroies " (or " Sac à agency reports pour dames " ) - as a small counterpart to the well-known travel bags from Hermès - out. First, the bag was not a bestseller, but nevertheless remained permanently in the range.
Larger became famous for the handbag only by the American actress Grace Kelly. On the day of her engagement to the Prince of Monaco Grace Kelly was in early 1956 with a " Petit Sac à skin Courroies " photographed, the photo became widespread. In the autumn of the same year traveled to the now pregnant Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco since April 1956, the United States. On this trip they wore different handbags. This has created a myth that the Princess had used a black copy of crocodile leather to conceal her pregnancy. The often bandied legend, a photo of pregnant princess is supposed to be even appeared with the black Hermès bag on the cover of the magazine LIFE. In fact, such a cover is never published, the myth still spread, and the bag was increasingly associated with Grace Kelly. Hermès responded and named the model in order Kelly Bag.
Kelly bags are new, depending on quality leather and metal, selling for prices 4500-80000 dollars and achieve at auctions generally comparable to resell it, even if they are usually well below the revenue for Birkin bags.
Design
Designed by John Dumas Kelly Bag is made of a leather body with a trapezoidal, tapering upwards basic shape and a rectangular bottom. The individual parts are either joined together so that the leather overlap the seams just to the outside, resulting in very straight and clear edges, or executed with inwändigen seams that are invisible from the outside, but forms less strict edges. The side walls of the bag are folded once in the closed state to the inside, so that these tapers flat above, but can be opened wide. The short curved handle, with the Kelly bag is worn on the arm, is connected by metal rings movable with the rollover and is folded back when you open the bag.
The rollover is chamfered at its lower end on the right and left rectangular - here accesses the on the back sewn and laterally guided by the folding of the side walls closure belt over the rollover, which is closed in the middle of the rollover and then the front of the bag with the flap and the closure belt firmly connects. The bag stands on four feet small metal, which are mounted in the corners on the bottom. Inside has one or more inner compartments, depending on the design, the bag. Each bag has a small padlock, whose key with a matching key case ( " Clochette" ) and which are attached to a leather strap that can wrap around the handle of the bag.
The Kelly bag is produced in five sizes from various exotic and domestic leathers, such as crocodile, alligator, buffalo, lizard and ostrich leather, sharkskin or veal, beef, or goat leather. Occasionally varies Hermès classic materials, so in the early 1990s was a Silk Scarf Kelly Bag, which consisted of the produced also by Hermès silk scarves, or in 2000, the Kelly Doll, in the bag with the face and attached arms and legs in a doll has been transformed. In early 2011, the Hermès Kelly Picnic Bag out a new version of the Kelly bag with a body made of wicker with leather flap. The Picnic Kelly by Hermès was advertised with photographs " edible " Kelly bag that, the paintings of Arcimboldo inspired, showed simulated from food forms and details of the Kelly Bag.
An already produced around 1960 design variant is the Kelly Sports Bag, which has a higher, slimmer basic form without flashover and is provided with a shoulder strap.
Production
Each Kelly bag is sewn from a single Bag makers in 18 to 24 hours of manual labor. The structure of the leather is considered accurate, in order to bring the natural patterns of the individual parts as well as possible to advantage. First, the goatskin lining is made, then the bottom and side parts are connected to each other, each stitch is first prearranged with an awl, and then executed with waxed thread. The molded by hand Henkel is treated with hot wax against moisture and combined with the characteristic rollover, which is then sewn to the bag body. After the metal parts have been secured, which are also riveted by hand, the entire bag is pressed in order to smooth out wrinkles in the leather.
Reception of Kelly designs
The most well-known development of the "Kelly Bag Designs " comes from Hermès itself: in 1984 developed Birkin bag takes up both the basic shape of the bag as well as the characteristic flap and closure belt on. Unlike the Kelly Birkin has two handles that are fastened to the sides. The Birkin can thus also be worn with open flap at the handles. The basic form of the Birkin is also slightly less severe than those of Kelly.
Direct discharges of Kelly designs by Hermès are the Kelly Watch a watch whose case is in the form of curtains little castle of handbag that Kelly 2 Watch - a watch whose leather watch strap is modeled after the closure Belt Kelly Bag (2011), the Kelly Longue wallet, a clutch bag with the characteristic flap and closure belt ( around 2005 ), and the almost identical Kelly Pochette, which differs from the Clutch mainly through the leather straps attached to the flat handle, and a muff in the Kelly - style.
Other manufacturers also grab the Kelly design on. The simple basic form of a worn arm handbag with flap and Henkel has now become the classic basic shape of the handbag designs. A recent interpretation of this basic form, for example, the Mulberry Postman 's Lock Satchel, which takes up next to rollover and handles the small leather key clochette.