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Exquisite Gucci’s Top Handle Bag Is Rerouting Reinvention

  • By Charmaine Tan

The Exquisite Gucci Collection's Top Handle Bag Is Rerouting Reinvention
The Exquisite Gucci collection debuts the top handle bag, a reinvented carrier inspired by the early duffle shapes Guccio Gucci designed for the House.

The essence of Gucci has always been the luggage. A reliable companion that travels with its owner to faraway lands. It physically and metaphorically holds the lives of its owners safe or hostage — a kind of quiet boldness that manifests today as the House’s obsession with the odd. Secrets and stories are packed away in the compartments of the carrier; anyone privy to the bag is privy to its treasures. It particularly excited a young Guccio Gucci, the bellhop at the luxurious Savoy Hotel in London.

After overhearing the tales of wanderlust, glamour and the dramatic gossip that came with a wealthy clientele, Guccio aspired to be a part of that same high society one day. His return to Florence, Italy, gave birth to a facet of the Gucci we know today — flaunting an equestrian interest, an unmistakably maximalist approach to luxury, and lavished with a contemporary streak of unconventionality and audacity.

The Exquisite Gucci Collection's Top Handle Bag Is Rerouting Reinvention
As an ode to the early duffle shapes that Guccio first conceived for the House, the new top handle bag from the Exquisite Gucci collection reinterprets the carrier with distinct triangular corners. Leather pieces framing a classic brown and cream leather body are layered with the iconic Web stripes. The top handle bag serves as the halfway point between eras and formalities, marrying the past’s wanderlust with the present’s agency while celebrating heritage with modernity.

Gucci’s top handle bag comes in various sizes that meet a traveller’s needs, each secured by the Double G logo clasp. Medium, large and maxi-sized duffles come in two material options: black Original GG canvas with calf leather trimming in varied colours, or in full Koi calf, Gucci’s new smooth leather with a shiny finish.

The Exquisite Gucci Collection's Top Handle Bag Is Rerouting Reinvention This versatile hold-all arrives just in time as the world restarts its physical cross-pollination of people and ideas, the opportunity to reinstate individual identities within the larger landscape of diversity. But there is no need for Gucci to raise its volume on this front — its innovative nature still holds its iron grip on the luxury wares of travel.

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