Hot bags this Spring

Purses come in a myriad of silhouettes, tones, and prints. This season’s must haves are an assortment of quality eye candy carryalls, timeless totes, and contemporary bag designs in dynamic shades and sizes. Search for the right bag that fits your style from Furla, Michael Kors, and LeSportsac’s spring collection.

The Furla spring/summer collection is inspired by the Neo Pop artistic movement. Painted and graphic effects in festive shades of sunshine, hibiscus orange as well as ocean blue and in contrast with soft tones of white, gray, and dove.

The Twist bag displays color-block impressions, a versatile and labor-intensive bucket-shaped shopper, complete with a metal bar and a woven inner compartment. For the chic trendsetter, the Furla Spy is perfect for day to night. This season’s novelty shape, the soft-edged, user-friendly backpack in soft nappa and suede, adorned with either mini or macro flat studs in burnished metal that set off a graphic polka dot effect.

The iconic Metropolis bag is chain-strapped and characterized by hand-stitched padded details that trace geometric motifs down the front. The clasp features a multi-color rubber coating.The same padded details also enhance the clean and casual class of the Alice tote.

The latest version of the Candy bag in soft PVC is a burst of playful colors and opposing textures. Another design of the same silhouette features resin brush-stroke effects that vary from subtle trickles to bold splotches, rigorously hand-applied to make each bag unique.

The Michael Kors spring collection showcases themes such as Safari Chic, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Haute Hawaii coupled with bags that mirror, fashion, form, and function. Natural woven raffia totes with leather straps and logo-etched hardware, the ideal carryall for casual weekend outings or tropical escapes.

There is beauty in the basics with the black luggage Izzy large bonded leather reversible tote, a chic and fundamental item that complements your daily wardrobe. It is designed from Venus leather with clean lines and polished top handles. The black tropical-print Eliza large plastic tote is a lightweight, spacious, top-handle, high quality bag for practical style and comfort.

LeSportsac features key items this spring in focused print and color stories. The Edie backpack, and the double zip belt bag in prints Tennis Stripe to Garden Mum, a heritage floral print updated in modern color.

 Classic travel styles including weekenders, packing cubes, crossbody bags and backpacks in prints such as Blissful, a soft imaging of flora in Spring color and Pink Pyramid, a geo played up in pretty pastel. The Every Girl and medium travel totes in Euphoria, a bouquet of flowers against a black ground and Blooming, a bold blending of animal print and graphic scribble.

The season’s solid picks also consist of metallics: Magnetic Snake, Gold Rush, and Wisteria Lightning–a lilac shimmer; debossings: Geodisic (black) and Solar (orange), as well as the Optic Patent (white) and Denim Pique, a textured washed denim photoreal.

Furla, Michael Kors, and LeSportsac are distributed by Stores Specialists, Inc. (SSI) - a member of the SSI Group. Furla and Michael Kors offered at Greenbelt 5, Rustan’s Makati, Central Square, Shangri-La Plaza Mall and Newport Mall. Michael Kors also available at The Power Plant Mall and Bonifacio High Street Central Square.LeSportsac offered at Estancia Mall, Robinsons Magnolia, Rustan’s in the following branches: Alabang, Cebu, Gateway, Robinsons Place Manila, Makati, and Shangri-La.