Word: handbagged
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...meant adaptations of high-toned popular fiction. No one ever got to say what was on their minds in those films, which often featured feverish and high-strung emoting by such live-wire nut jobs as Bette Davis or Joan Crawford who would haul a handgun out of her handbag and plug whoever was thwarting her hormonal needs. Here everyone suffers in hushed silence...
...handbag was named for haute-hippie actress Jane Birkin after a chance meeting with Hermès chairman Jean-Louis Dumas on an airplane in 1984. As the story goes, Birkin was rummaging through her basket-weave purse when it fell apart. Dumas assisted her in collecting the dropped items, they struck up a conversation, and?voilà!?shortly thereafter Dumas had the Birkin bag created as a token of friendship...
...Black crocodile Birkin handbag with 169.67 g of white gold and 10.86 carats of diamonds...
...abide the cozy and mildly corrupt arrangements that - as she saw it - had condemned post-1945 Britain to a managed decline, and was determined to blow them up. As one of her more waspish M.P.s once said, Thatcher could not see an institution without "hitting it with her handbag." But she never understood that once you removed the need to show deference to any institution - the BBC, the labor unions, the professions - you had undermined them all. If deference to the established order was so bad, why show it (for example) to the monarchy? Moreover - really for the first time...
...long ago, the spectacle of fashion was in the fabric, not the celebrity-filled front row. The material mattered more than the scene?more than the next It handbag. I remember visiting Yves Saint Laurent's studio for an haute couture preview when the designer himself was still working, fitting dresses on models. Saint Laurent and his aide-de-camp Loulou de La Falaise were yanking huge bolts of color-saturated Abraham silk down from the shelves and spinning out a fantasy scene of a hot summer day in New Orleans circa 1860, complete with big taffeta skirts and wide...