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Hermès

Style of a princess

BY SARA SAMMARCO

Elegant, refined, synonymous with style, class handle. The bag evolved further in 1923 when
and power, the Hermès Kelly is the queen of Emile-Maurice Hermes and Ettore Bugatti desi-
bags. It is one of the most famous bags of all gned a bag for Hermes’s wife Julie. It was simple
time, one of the few to be able to be called by a and elegant and was intended to fit perfectly
name. Its beauty has remained unchanged sin- through an automobile car door. In 1928 Robert
ce 1956, the year of its official consecration and Dumas, Emile-Maurice’s son in law designed a
since then it has been the bag that reflects the bag called the Sac a depeches. This bag was to
class and elegance of princesses. Kelly bags are carry important papers and news and it was re-
essentially based upon a bag originally made in ally the first ‘handbag’. Eminent poets, politicians
1892 for holding a saddle. The bag was known including JFK and the Duke of Windsor wore the
then as a Haut a courroies because of its high Hermes Sac a depeches with style. From here the

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