In 2005, Chloé’s Paddington bag was in the crook of every fashion darling’s arm, from Kate Moss and Sienna Miller to Halle Berry and Jennifer Lopez. Cut to 2025, and the east-west style, with its distinctive chunky padlock front and center, has found its way back into the wardrobes of tastemakers, including Katie Holmes, who carries a Paddington on her movie sets, and Dua Lipa, who totes it in Instagram outfit dumps.
This case of It-bag déjà vu comes down to one woman and one woman alone: Chemena Kamali. One of only a handful of women designers at the top level of luxury fashion, she joined Chloé as creative director in 2023, having started her career at the French fashion house as an intern during its Phoebe Philo era. The Chloé Paddington was actually designed by Philo for the Spring 2005 collection. Kamali brought it out of the vault as part of her Fall 2025 show for the brand, with none other than Alexa Chung walking it down the runway.
