16 Iconic It-Bags That Defined the 2000s
The 2000s will be remembered for many things: It’s the era when social media started to saturate society, smartphones infiltrated every pocket, reality TV started to catch on, and the Kardashians became bonafide pop culture phenomenons. For the fashion crowd, however, the early 2000s will be remembered as the era during which It bags officially became a thing.
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In the nearly two decades since the millenium and today, designer handbag became a symbol of status and style thanks in large part to celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kate Moss, who started carrying the now-famous bags by Louis Vuitton, Fendi, and Givenchy, prompting women to save hard in order to own a piece of the luxury for themselves.
To reminisce about the iconic handbags that defined the early ’00s—especially in the wake of the news that Vuitton would be retiring its early-2000s stalwart, the Murakami monogram—we talked with Kelli Seid from Bag Borrow or Steal, a site to rent designer handbags–to come up with a definitive list of the styles we all desperately coveted over the last 15 years.
Keep clicking, and take a stroll down memory lane.
