Unprecedented. Dystopian. Potentially due for a rapture. Pick whichever best fits how you’d describe our current times—politically, emotionally, spiritually. If words fail you, take inspiration from luxury designers in Milan and Paris, who seem to have landed on a specific accessory to depict the state of the world in their Spring 2026 collections: topsy-turvy, one-strap handbags.
Jonathan Anderson’s womenswear debut at Dior included baby pink and blue bow-bedecked bags, each hanging from a single leather strap and swinging at an angle. Fendi’s Spring 2026 accessory lineup featured solo-strapped Peekaboos with sides filleted open to reveal colorful sequined interiors. At Loewe, newly-appointed creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez presented the first glimpse into what’s in store for the It-bag-making machine of a brand: single-strap leather Amazona 180s, carried haphazardly in models’ open fists, purposefully left unzipped, and slanted 45 degrees to the right.
