With 225 designer handbags — all stuffed with Dior beauty products — for sale in a silent auction at Tuesday's annual P.S. Arts "Bag Lunch," guests didn't just arrive on time.
An editor once caught me eating a dusty lozenge discovered on the bottom of a colleague's handbag (it was lunch, and I was grateful for it) and suggested it was time for an intervention.
At the high end, shoppers are still looking for one-of-a-kind, or close to one-of-a-kind, items like the Lambertson Truex alligator lunch box handbag for $5,115 or the fox shrug (smaller than a bolero jacket) for $1,500, according to Robert Burke, the fashion director at Bergdorf Goodman.
Catering for those without time for a lunch break, a handbag complete with insulated compartment will keep noodles hot, and even comes accessorised with a set of chopsticks.
At that moment, Darinka Chase, Florent's hostess, swung by wearing a trapeze coat and a repressed-looking, architected handbag large enough to hold her lunch.
Then it's time for the final hurdle -- smuggling an apple, a muffin and a couple of rolls into my handbag so I have so there's something for lunch.
We were at the lunch table and I was reaching for my handbag.
Drabble, however, is not at all pessimistic about new technology: she is evangelical about her Kindle, which she has just taken to lunch at the Wolseley, the complete Henry James in her handbag.
"JOY OF CHRISTMAS," a bazaar with hand-made crafts, lunch items, baked goods, clothing, jewelry, linens and handbags.
I went down to the protest at lunch time to see whether there were any handbags being hurled onto bonfires or heels being snapped off a pair of £525 stilettos.
