A crescent bag, rounded under the arm

VSBaking seems to be popular at Fendi. In 1997, the Italian house launched a bestseller: the baguette, in the shape of a loaf of bread. visit card. At the same time, Fendi envisioned another burgeoning bag, the progenitor of the crescent moon, which is available everywhere today, from luxury houses to mass distribution.

On TikTok, a fabric model from Japanese brand Uniqlo has gone viral, with everyone in the videos highlighting its amazing abilities as a new excuse to put yourself on stage. An exercise halfway between an iconic sequence Mary Poppins And there are capsules offered on the websites of fashion magazines, which invite stars to reveal the contents of their bags, as if they were showing intimacy.

But we can also think of Samuel Beckett’s play oh good days In which Winnie, a coquettish fifty-year-old buried up to her waist in a mound of earth, monologues in her bag, from which she pulls out (and then returns) a whole bunch: a toothbrush. , a tube of toothpaste, glasses, a mirror, a bottle, lipstick, a comb, a nail file, a music box and even a revolver named Brownie! The role is forever associated with actress Madeleine Reno, who was played by director Roger Blin until 1986, at the age of 86.

“Jack,” the forerunner

Return to the Crescent. In 1971, when the play was adapted for television, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett was photographed in a fishing port on the Ligurian coast with a Gucci bag over his shoulder. Not just any: G1244, another crescent progenitor named after it “Jack” because he was very fond of JFK’s ex-wife, who he used from Manhattan to Capri to hide from the paparazzi.

Today it’s more about showing off. A crescent bag is essential in a small format and worn under the arm. It’s no longer a matter of letting yourself be shadowed in the bag. The it-bag era is said to be digested.