Heart bag on hand

StWho really knows what’s inside? Hearts give shape to many bags this season. Undoubtedly, this is due to the return of kitsch in the 2000s, as well as the more or less declared need for love in a difficult age. TikTok experts speak out lovecore or heart of heart A viral trend that takes full advantage of the manufactured novel.

Formed by two lobes that meet at the base in perfect symmetry, the symbol probably has less to do with the shape of an organ than with the schematic representation of an ivy leaf – a perennial bushy vine that grows year-round. Unless it is the seed of a silphion, a plant that has now disappeared. Everyone chooses their own interpretation.

Nevertheless, it dates back to the 14th century^e century when this stylized design became widespread. It will soon give its shape to jewelry, amulets, or talismans to signify love and devotion or to seek hypothetical protection. In the Victorian era, the heart becomes a locket, inside which a lock of the loved one’s hair must be slipped. Then it will give its shape to boxes of chocolates and countless gender toys for pretty little girls.

vital organ

It is sometimes said that great works are prophetic. in the episodebabysitter from hell Recorded in the laugh-out-loud soap opera that enthralled an entire generation of teenagers in the 1990s, actor Fran Drescher carries a disposable camera in her red heart-shaped (Moschino) bag, which she uses to take pictures in restaurant mirror toilets. thus foreshadowing the civilization of the selfie. Thirty years later, the bag is being sold on second-hand sites, and the Italian brand, which designer Jeremy Scott worked on for a decade, offers a spring-summer 2023 collection that gives pride of place to the pattern.

But of course, no one has a monopoly on the heart, and every designer has presented their own version: from Vivienne Westwood to Karl Lagerfeld in 1995 through Alaia, Balenciaga or even Alessandro Michele, who presented Minauder for Gucci in 2021. Realistically takes the shape of a vital organ, aorta and arteries. The object, as tough as it is scrappy, made its small impact on red carpets. Since then, rhinestones, volume, flat, monogram, heart-shaped bags are multiplied and stolen. There is a big risk of palpitations in the leather goods department this season.