Vogel: We've just launched our first leather accessory, which is an equestrian-inspired hip bag that's functional for riding as well as a statement for city life.
4. La Dolfina A jayvee version of Ralph Lauren's Polo, this clubby outpost of the Argentine brand, founded by the polo player Adolfo Cambiaso, sells everything to equip your inner equestrian, from polo helmets to leather mallet bags.
SANDRA BALLENTINE 1. Ilya Fleet, a former saddle maker, fashioned this bag (about $940) from saddle leather and brass equestrian fixtures.
Lee Middleton, director of Point Two, said his product was worn by the top 40 American riders, and that several national teams, including the United States, would provide air bag vests to their riders at next month's World Equestrian Games in Kentucky.
He attributed his good fortune to an air bag vest, a simple safety innovation that was virtually unheard of in the equestrian world until last year and now is standard issue for the world's top riders.
While her identity remains a mystery, a makeshift memorial sprouted up Thursday on a popular equestrian trail to a young girl whose lifeless body was found stuffed into a black duffel bag in the light brush.
Émile-Maurice furnished Tsar Nicholas II with saddles and the company introduced its first bag – the haut à courroies – designed to allow the world's most well-heeled equestrians to carry their Hermès saddle with them wherever they went.
It's great to be back amongst equestrian folk, chatting about Hanoverians and halts; tack to tests and lots of chitter chatter about who'll bag the medals.
Fans were suddenly able to buy the equestrian-inspired leopard-print bridle bags or shearling jackets that previously they could only have coveted on social media straightaway – albeit for price tags larger than the average monthly mortgage payment.
Named for Évelyne Bertrand, then the head of Hermès's riding department, the bag was designed in 1978 to carry grooming equipment (a brush, comb and other stable necessities) and was sold in stores alongside other equestrian goods, where the bag was still relegated up until recent years.
