Luxury: Five Reasons To Love Designer Bags

Luxury Auction Tues 30 Mar 2021 MELBOURNE

TOP: An Exotic Skin Kelly 28 Handbag By Hermès Sold For $37,500

OPPOSITE: John D'Agata, Head of Luxury at Leonard Joel, inspects a Hermès Birkin

Luxury

Five Reasons To Love Designer Bags —

1. A Personal Tool-Kit Don’t leave home without it! Everything that you need must be at your fingertips. Looking for that credit card for that ‘must have’ purchase? Need a freshen up with your favourite fragrance, or in desperate need of some lip balm? Where are those car keys when you need them? Let’s add iphone cords, good luck charms, hand sanitizer and face masks to the list too. A bag is your personal carry case with your private little world chaotically contained inside.

2. Individuality You’ve got to love it, don’t you? Designer bags reflect our personality and let others know how we see ourselves. Are you sporting a Vintage Kelly with a co-ordinating Hermès Twilly tied to the handle for effect? Or maybe it’s a chic Alexander McQueen, or a classic Chanel 2.55? Though you may not realise it, you are sending little messages about yourself out into the world. A signature piece says a lot about you.

3. Prestige You’ve made it! You deserve that bag. Walk into that fashionable restaurant and plonk that Birkin ‘So Black’ on the table. They will pretend that they are not looking, but you know they are! Meet your girlfriend for drinks at that trendy bar with your Chanel exotic leather skin clutch, and what would a shopping trip be without your Limited Edition Louis Vuitton monogram graffiti tote? It is a little materialistic, I know, but there’s something to be said for the instant gratification.

4. It’s worth it Generally speaking, good designer bags are costly, however they are worth it. Even entry point designer pieces such as Louis Vuitton and Gucci monogram canvas bags are well made, and generally stand the test of time. They age gracefully and sometimes even look better than they did when they were brand new.

5. Can’t live without it! The thrill and excitement of finding the perfect designer bag is like no other. It’s like looking for a new home, when you mentally place all of your furnishings in each room and imagine yourself living there. When buying a bag, you normally plan out where and how you will use it and think of all the places that you can go to show it off. In good times and in bad, this faithful companion will always be by your side. You will forget that you are carrying one and it almost becomes part of your body, yet you’ll always remember seeing the bag for the first time and the thrill it gave you.

JOHN D'AGATA / Head of Luxury

Prints & Multiples

Prints & Multiples Auction Wed 31 Mar 2021 MELBOURNE

ABOVE: Space Invader LDN-08 1999 at Old Brewer's Yard, Shelton Street, London

OPPOSITE: SPACE INVADER Alias LDN-08 1999 - 2007 72 ceramic and mirror tiles/resin 21 x 22 x 4cm $10,000 - 15,000

Invader: Work in Pixels —

When we talk of Street Art, we inevitably list graffiti, collage, murals, stencils and lastly, mosaic tiling. All these mediums have several representatives and masters, except for the last one. Invader is the original creator of in situ mosaic tiling as Street Art. Working anonymously, he is, along with Banksy, one of the world’s most renowned urban artists.

Invader is a French Street Artist who has been working on the Space Invader Project since 1998. This collection is about liberating art from museums and galleries. “Each time I put a new piece in the street, it is like a memorable exhibit”. Invader uses ceramic tiles to bring the pixelations into our physical world. He started installing his characters around the streets of Paris before taking the invasion to a global scale. For every work that Invader puts in the street, he also creates one ‘alias’ mosaic. These are to be sold in galleries, being more carefully created, and set into perspex. Each alias is accompanied by an ID card recording the location of the original invasion. For the collector, these artworks are symbolically linked to the work on the street.

Leonard Joel’s March Prints and Multiples auction brings us Alias LDN-08. Originally created on Old Brewers Yard, Shelton Street, London; the date of the invasion was June 1999. The alias was exhibited within Invaders solo show at Lazarides Gallery, London and it has since been brought to Australia in a private collection.

Invader has only just begun to grace the Australian secondary market, making this a highly desired and collectable work of art.

HANNAH RYAN / Prints & Multiples Manager