Love Handbags for life...

I have been a huge Jean-Paul Gaultier fan for a very long time. His costume designs for the film "La cite des enfants perdus", lend the movie a whole new level of eiry atmosphere and the same can be said for "The Fifth Element".

What I really admire about Jean-Paul Gaultier is that he has never studied fashion or handbag design, yet he has managed to get where he is today. Instead he sent sketches to famous designers when he was only a teenager and succeeded in impressing Pierre Cardin, who hired him as an assistant in 1970.

Browsing the internet I have found some more Vivienne Westwood handbags - and the added benefit: The handbags I am going to show you today are on sale!! Obviously these bags are from the previous Vivienne Westwood handbag collection and if you are looking for Westwood’s handbag trend for 2008 and 2009 follow the hyperlink.

Not only are the bags that I have found available for exactly half the original price, but furthermore they go with the sailor style handbag trend that I talked about before. Although they are called picnic handbag (I guess that is because the bag looks like a knotted together picnic blanket or neckerchief), these handbags would perfect the partner-look with Popeye for Olivia Oyl.

Today I want to have a look at some cool handbags focusing on black and white handbags.

Everybody has done the crazy colourful thing and we are slightly oversaturated in colour colour and more colour – maybe it is time to take a step back and concentrate on understatement. With the Beckhams' monochrome theme it would seem that black and white bags are still in fashion in summer 2008.

Here are some more pretty black and white handbag designs, but if you have missed out on part one of the monochrome style propagated by for example the Beckhams, you can read up on it here.

I especially like the two Guess handbags as they are good value, but all of them are pretty ladies designer handbags so let us start from the beginning: