Defining Handbag Trends for Spring 2024
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Focus On These Defining Handbags for Spring 2024
Key handbags for the season, including bijoux, enveloped, and cozy weekender aesthetics.
By Vainqueur Editors | April 8, 2024
On and off the runway, an array of playful textures, oblique shapes and decorated trinkets are sprucing the handbag realm. Where quiet luxury dominated for a few seasons, wealth out loud has now cemented its place. DSQUARED2’s Spring 2024 ready-to-wear took a raunchier take on preppy with its Gothic clutch— showcasing charms, metallic logo hardware and ball-chained shoulder straps. Brother Veilles prevailed more flamboyantly this season, especially with its Lijadu collection that accented its strap with feathers and hardwood chain links — a desirable artisan touch.
While the absence of logos, clean burnished edges, and supple leather are still preferred handbags for this season, eventful shapes and structures further the minimalism appeal. Azure Lazuli and Sonya Lee continue to stand behind their iconic irregular silhouettes.
Overstuffed and XXXL weekender bags from Monos, BEIS, and Les Want Essentials are juxtaposed with trending micro bags, which turn heads and spark questions like: Where are you heading off to? The new travel norm is to pack as light as the compartmented and pocketed-focused styles allow. On the contrary, yet still compartmentally useful, enveloped bags are a distinct designer favourite, with a multitude of selections from Anscel, Esse and M0851.
Ahead, Vainqueur captured essential spring 2024 handbag trends to know and turn into investment pieces. Shop now.
Vainqueur’s Spring 2024 Handbag Wish List
The Feather and Croc Bag: Brother Veillies Lijadu Bird Bag in Cognac Croc, $2,365 CAD
The Studded Luxe Shoulder Bag: Sonya Lee Francesca Shoulder Bag, $359 CAD
The Kiss From a Rose Clutch: Erdem Small Bag, $1,095
The Perfect Circle Clutch: Andrea Iyamah Balli Bag, $732 CAD
The Knotted Pleasure: Risa Knot Leather Shoulder Bag, $149 CAD
Moon Bags
Half moons, waning gibbous and crescent! Spherical bags really made an entrance for autumn/winter 2023 and have trickled into spring 2024 collections with more eclectic compact circles, perfect as an everyday staple. In celebration of all the solar and lunar eclipses, these are the perfect everyday wear staples.
Le Nécessaire, Essaim
$145 CAD
Serena, Matt & Nat
$140 CAD
Maria Hobo, Wearshop
$325 CAD
The Rachel, Lambert
$129 CAD
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Bijoux & Chains
This season made more room for designers who embrace loud and in-your-face luxury with gems, crystals, sparkle and lots of gold. In the mix is Opelle’s decadent, brindled, studded pochette. DSQUARED2 encourages the girls to channel their punk side by featuring a belt-style strap with a gothic-style logo plaque. Most of the striking bags for the season are treating their straps and handles as an extension of jewellery, showing gold, silver and even wooden chain links that resemble necklaces or bracelets.
Gothic Belt Clutch, DSQUARED2
$1,290 CAD
Mini Crystal, ai
$240 CAD
Marlysax, Aldo
$75 CAD
Lijadu Bifold, Brother Vellies
$1,806 CAD
m Pochette, Opelle
$175 CAD
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Enveloped
Designers are remixing the daytime clutch beyond the pochettes of yore and into fanny packs, crossbodys, and more. Shapes of envelopes are an ongoing everyday staple this season, and they mean business—compact enough to fit your favourite lipstick and versatile to slip into your commute tote. It's a new 9-to-9 schedule favourite. Look to Esse and Anscel for signed, sealed, delivered styles.
Camellia, Anscel
$399 CAD
Accordion Crossbody Cervino, Roots
$138 CAD
FP32, M0851
$155
the Fanny Pack, Samara
$144 CAD
Esse, ai
$60 CAD
Miniscule
We’ve officially entered a season of extremes, and the likes of 3.Paradis, Partoem, and Azure Lazuli all had bags more diminutive than the average iPhone. More interestingly, minis transcend the crossbody and into top handle territory—a delicate display when pinched between fingers. Honey, we shrunk the everything bag!
L’Attaché Mini, 3.Paradis
$671 CAD
Arch, Want Les Essentials
$575 CAD
Capulet, Partoem
$350 CAD
Zaha 17 Desert, Azure Lazuli
1, 190 CAD
Half Maya, Sonya Lee
$197 CAD
The Weekender
The bigger, the better is the name of the fame this season, with renditions of compartment-heavy styles. The weekender is no longer reserved for staycations and quick business trips; it's now a mainstay convenience bag paired with your business attire that turns to workout gear after 5. Want Les Essentials and Samara had much in common with a pair of cozy trousers. A travel-focused effect was given by BEIS and Monos’ Metro Weekender, where a shoe compartment at the bottom comes in extra handy along with a discreet laptop slip. The only challenge with these all-in-one secured bags is that it might get a little harder to locate your car keys.
Kelowna, Want Les Essentials
$745 CAD
the Radhi Weekender, Samara
$325 CAD
Metro Weekender, MONOS
$300 CAD
Mini Weekender (Slate), BEIS
$132 CAD