Fendi 2000s Floral Embellished Fringed Baguette Bag

A floral embellished Baguette bag with fringe by Fendi from the 2000s. Silvia Venturini Fendi designed the Baguette in 1997 as an answer to a decade of plain, oversized bags: a small rectangular flap piece made to sit under the arm like its namesake. The house went on to produce it in well over a thousand variations, and the heavily worked editions of the 2000s, beaded, embroidered and fringed by hand, are the most collected of them. This one carries floral embellishment and fringe. An archive piece from the years when the Baguette sat at the centre of bag culture, a status sealed when Sex and the City insisted that it is not a bag, it is a Baguette.