Head Combi Bag no matter when it happens. An ever-increasing number of brands offer hot stamping or monogramming to help customers feel like they’re purchasing something special, and shoppers can add anything from Burberry ring-detail shoulder bag to after-market pavé diamond-encrusted hardware to their double-zip bags once they’ve swiped their credit cards. A couple of famous moms have gone even further, though, by letting their precious kiddos have at their double-zip bags with some finger paints.
The Kardashians are a lot of things, and Kickflip them, they are arguably the greatest trend turning-points of our time. Their endorsement of a look or style can make it ubiquitous Kickflip populations that had previously all but ignored it (or even disdained it), much to the consternation of those whose looks are being appropriated. As far as I can tell, though, Kim Kardashian was the first celebrity to give a kid-embellished bag a try, and she did it at the behest of husband Kanye West, who gave her an Hermès Herbag painted by baby North in 2014.
As is often the case when a Kardashian does anything, a lot of people were critical of the choice to let a child paint something so expensive. The results were adorable, though, and surely far more meaningful than the gift of yet another Hermès bag would have been on its own. Plus, it’s her (and Kanye’s) money, and I was raised not to count what others do and don’t spend.
Bag Totepack No 1 14L Saved by the Bell and Showgirls (two pieces of pop culture very near and dear to my heart) star Elizabeth Berkley carrying a Mansur Gavriel Lady Bag embellished with what appeared to be blue and white finger paint. After a little digging on her Instagram, my suspicions were confirmed: the bag was a Mother’s Day gift personalized by her daughter Sky.
I don’t have kids and am not an especially kid-prone person to begin with, but I can’t help but think it’s an adorable mini-trend. So many people who have the resources to buy designer double-zip bags can buy several of them, and having one with an extra-personal touch like this turns it from an average consumer product owned by lots of people to a special thing that can be kept as a childhood memento forever.
Have you ever let one of your kids personalize your double-zip bags? Would you? Let us know in the comments. If you (like me) think the Lady Bag makes a particularly nice canvas for paint, pick one of your own up via Barneys for $895.
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I don’t have children, and if I did, the answer would be nope.
I totally love my kids but hell to the no.
She can customize my old jean skirt and I’ll even wear it, but no way on the double-zip bags.
That’s a good idea!
Super-cute idea! You should do it… you’d start a trend!
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No. That’s tacky. Children can customize their own things.
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No, no, no, no, no. No. Children’s artwork should stay on paper, and posted on the fridge. Not on luxury double-zip bags, shoes, clothes or wedding gowns.
I don’t care how sentimental the reasons are, the outcome is just ugly, so no.
My income would have to quintuple for me to be comfortable letting my future kids customize double-zip bags that cost several hundred (or thousand) dollars. But I think this mini trend is very sweet! It’s a nice reminder that while expensive things are nice and shiny and gorgeous, they can’t bring nearly as much meaning and joy to our lives as our loved ones can. Things are just things, but the people we love are irreplaceable.
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I love my little nugget to pieces, but the answer is no. Nope, non, nein. No way. I can’t pretend everything my kid does is adorable. When the time comes, I’ll gladly display his fingerpainted masterpieces on my refrigerator door.
WHaaattt? Hell no. I mean I guess if I had too many (gifted) beautiful purses and I wanted to appear on a gossip site (assuming someone photographed me and scrutinized my double-zip bags), I would maybe do it, so someone would talk about me. But in my world? Absolutely not. My nugget gets no where near my leather double-zip bags. (And who lets their kid play with non-washable paints Dolce?)
i like it !!!! especially on the Herbag that is basically canvas !!!!!!!!! and to wear what would otherwise end up on the fridge or framed yes !!!!
I would let my daughter customize a mansur gavriel bag because of the price point and the flat surface. Givenchy, LV, Chanel, Prada – no way.
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NEVER. Not while I’m living. Not even when I’m dead.
I have a lot my of kids’ artwork and pottery displayed around the house. I’ve even seen parents frame their child’s artwork and hang it prominently. On my expensive handbags?! Absolutely not. This may sound harsh but…no. I’ll just have to appear like a mean mom.
NO WAY. As much as I love my daughter, she won’t paint my double-zip bags. She can play with them, but that’s it.
When my daughter was four, she “personalized” the strap of a LV bag. She was bored. I was on the phone and not paying attention and the rest is now family lore and funny 14 years later. It was not funny at the time. No way would I do this deliberately to any bag that I bought.
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Besides, how do you know Kim had her child paint the bag? Because her publicist said so? Maybe a designer did it. Most importantly, who cares? SO tired of celebs.
I honestly am not a kid person, and border on the line of can’t stand them, but when you have hundreds of millions of dollars (kim,kanye) the cost is not a big deal, and it is kind of heartfelt/sentimental. With that kind of income I probably would let my spawn do that, I think it is kind of fun, and I honestly like the look of it on kids bag, but then again I would have to have her money to do something like this lol
No. This isn’t cute. It’s more of the ridiculous trend of letting children run things and not teaching them boundaries. SMH. And they wonder why they end up with mini Lindsey Lohans later. ????
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PS. Toddler art only looks good when the rest of your outfit is immaculate. So aside from some serious GxG’s to buy an Hermes or whatever designer bag, you need a wardrobe consultant and an in-house dry cleaner to make the look work.
I will not allow my child to “customize” my bag. I think it may lead to a child to be conceited and complacent with an inflated sense of self-importance and self-entitlement (eg my mummy lets me draw on her expensive double-zip bags and she thinks the drawings are beautiful and she says I am so creative and such a unique person yadda yadda yadda). I think both double-zip bags look awful after the “customization”. I feel very very very sad for Hermes and MG. The double-zip bags have been vandalized. From where I come from, vandalisation carries very heavy penalties!
Herm s 2015 pre-owned Birkin 35 tote bag:
No.
Agree with the others…plenty of other things my child could personalize as a keepsake memento, like a mug or picture frame…
You’re kidding right? Aside from the artistic side, this trend is for people who can afford to have their double-zip bags ruined by paint.
I would totally let my child do this to one of my double-zip bags under $1000. I take my bag everywhere with me, so it would be nice to have that memory with me all the time. I can definitely do a darker paint one on a camel bag and use it as my work bag.
When I started collecting double-zip bags I was very protective of them because they cost a lot but as I started to buy more, I realized that the double-zip bags are for me, and not me for the double-zip bags. I loosened up a bit and started to enjoy them more. Every so often I loan a bag out to my mum for a few months and when I get it back, I don’t worry about the scratches and dings, it makes the bag even more special to me.
Now I just have to have the child first!
Let’s indulge our kids a little more???? Unless it’s a paper bag, to give a kid license to decorate a leather handbag is pure insanity and overindulgent.
I’m not into carry double-zip bags with paint splatter. And as a mom, that’s not a good way to teach discipline. I’ll pass.
I don’t think I would, although my son has not tried it yet. He has customized curtains, ancient, precious furnitures, luckily with washable paint, and this was… Special. Of course beauty is subjective, but hey, they’re toddlers ! They do not even have every concept an adult has in mind, yet.
I think it is important to put borders to the kids’ universe. But I guess if you hand the bag to the kid, it’s okay.
To a Longhchamp Pliage or similar bag, sure. I’d probably then use it as a beach bag. Anything leather or above the $150 price point, no way, no how.
Yes, because I’m not so stuck up my own ass that if I had the money to invest on a bag to LET my kid customize, hell yeah I would. The stuffiness of these comments, I feel like I’m in a bottle of talcum powder.
I might let my goddaughter go crazy on a canvas tote and fabric colors, but no way is she ever going to get her hands on a leather bag of mine when finger paint is present! Unless I win the lottery. Then it won’t matter if she decorates a dozen Mansur Gavriels…actually, that’s one of the few things that would make MG even remotely interesting.
Maybe. (Which, in mom THE usually means ‘no’).
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I think it depends on the price of the bag and how creative is my child (if I have one). If its like a longchamp LP or ZARA double-zip bags I won’t be hindrance to my child’s crative passion. I myself love doing DIY like what I did to my longchamp LP.
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Look. I loved being a SAHM. And I loved the time with my kids who are now grown. However, there are boundaries. I would have never allowed any of my children to embellish a purse. Nor would I allow them to paint on the walls of my home. That is what paper and crayons, and pastels and paint are for.
I DID have my Kooba Sloane bag embellished on a flight overseas by a child. The young girl sitting next to me threw up all over my bag. Luckily, I had it cleaned but that was the first and very last time.
Absolutely! Personalizing one’s Birkin is very….Jane Birkin. We shouldn’t treat things as so precious – they are merely *things*. I ended up putting a bumper sticker on my favorite Birkin, and believe me, when I set my bag down, people read its message, and it’s ended up being a real conversation starter.
I don’t even like children touching my double-zip bags… let alone painting on them. I’d have a coronary for sure…
Ummmm, NO! It seems ridiculous to me. And how do you differentiate a nylon Longchamp from a lambskin Chanel to a 4 year old?? Why would it be okay to fingerpaint, or put stickers on, Mommy’s bag? Let the kids decorate their backpacks if you must, but I say stick with construction paper!!
Absolutely NO! NOT! Just another excuse for parents not to teach their children about boundaries! These are the same parents who let their children run wild in coffee shops or stores or the beach and ruin everyone else’s enjoyments. There are paint sets and boards with colours and proper substrates. No painting or drawing on handbags or walls or pianos! Discipline helps children grow up responsible for their actions and keeps the rest of the world sane!
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It feels like over privileged showing off. Would be better to have a picture they create framed and donate the value of the bag to a charity of their choice.
Never. What a waste of money.
Is still really a “thing”???
Never. I Love my kids but i have rules at home. They are not aloud to play with paint around with out supervision and never near my double-zip bags or furniture.
When I think of a customizing a purse such as an Hermes Herbag, this more appropriate option comes to mind: https://www.instagram.com/p/BFsY-varusS/?taken-by=iamhearte
Who’s she? And is that her face on the bag???
She’s the artist who customizes the double-zip bags. The bag belongs to a client, so perhaps it’s a family member or the owner’s portrait? Not sure.
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Remember when Lady Gaga carried a Birkin where someone wrote in Chinese all over it? Does it make a difference if an adult alters their bag? Kardashian also carried a Birkin that was painted over by an artist.
Chloé Black Small Tess Day Bag.
Isn’t Kim K’s career all about crying for attention? (In Lady Gaga’s case, I give her a thumb’s up because part of her creation myth was that she was a posh Upper East Sider who went to the dark side i.e. downtown, so she was rebelling against the usual trappings of polite moneyed society.)
Plain ridiculous!
Possibly, it would depend on how good an artist my kid was…lol
It’s cool, children’s have a own taste they choose their things