'Oh, my god, you have a Bayswater! I'm on a waiting list! Can I.
If my tan Bayswater could talk, she'd tell you tales of being felt up by complete strangers in the street. Yet in an age of ever bolder - and ever smaller - It bags in eye-watering shades of neon, can the solidly sensible Bayswater really hope to compete? Or is its heyday long past? To mark the occasion, Mulberry is launching a new range of Bays-waters, hoping that they can ignite that frenzied bag addiction for a new generation of It girls. It's hard to believe that this fashion movement that captivated so many of us happened 20 years ago. This shabby nonchalance was the epitome of British cool, as modelled on the bag's most aspirational fans, style icons like Alexa Chung, Sienna Miller and, most notably, Kate Moss, who seemed to have one in every shade, from turquoise to black to beige.įemail compiled the six bags the Mulberry Bayswater bag has to beatįor my part, I had three, in tan, red and a green snake effect Instantly recognisable with its briefcase-like bulk and wide flap, there was even a specific way of carrying the Bayswater - its artfully battered handles nestled in the crook of your elbow, with the signature buckle lock visible but consciously unfastened. The status symbols of the early 2000s included the lowest-slung jeans, boho blouses and lace-up pirate boots, but none of them loomed as large as the Bayswater.
Long before you'd had time to separate the layers of protective tissue paper - as if you were revealing not a new handbag but the Turin Shroud - there was that glorious, heady hit of butter-soft leather.
Unboxing a new Mulberry Bayswater, the iconic British 'It' bag for celebrities and fashion-obsessed civilians alike, was an almost spiritual ceremony. The thrill of it all started with the smell.
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