You love designer handbags. You collect them, lust after them and treat them better than your nearest and dearest until your husband or boyfriend starts complaining. Does this sound familiar to you?

Your credit cards twitch and flinch when the latest fashion magazines arrive in the post, small whimpering sounds carrying to you gently from your purse.

You convince yourself that you can give them up anytime, no problem.

"It's not a problem", you tell your friends "I can control it".

Then you catch yourself signing your husband up for an evening job without his knowledge, visions of the latest Hyanuki creation shimmering in front of your eyes as you fill out his application form.

Are you an addict? Is your habit becoming dangerous? Will it all ends in tears?

Well, if any of the following symptoms are familiar to you -- maybe you should consider cutting down for a while to a lesser brand!

1) You hear the phrases "huffing", "shluffing" and "blopping" and know what they mean. Even worse, you can remember the last time you did any of them.

2) The UPS / FEDEX delivery men know you by your first name and say "Hi" to you in the street.

3) Your husband is convinced you're having an affair with the delivery guy as he's always at your house!

4) The "box" room has been renamed your "dressing room" and you're trying to work out which wall to knock down to make it bigger so that you can fit in the new closets you'll need for all your bags.

5) Your husband is telling you how badly damaged the cards are and how you'll both have to economize. All you hear is "Of course you can get another handbag darling. You go choose what you want and I'll arrange to sell a kidney!"

6) You have to find new places to hide your latest purchases so that you don't have to answer any difficult questions.

7) When you get asked about a new bag you lie through your teeth, claiming you've had it for years and have only just got it out of the cupboard.

You start arguments on purpose with your husband / boyfriend / whatever just so as to have an excuse to buy yourself a new handbag - to cheer yourself up as you felt so low!

9) You know exactly how much, as a percentage, your weekly grocery bill is as money you can't spend on a new handbag.

10) If anyone asks what you'd like as a birthday or xmas pressie, you're able to hand out a list of your desired bags that you'd like to be "surprised" with. The list is categorized by 17 different headings and is cross-indexed.

11) The manager of your local boutique phones you to advise that they are holding a training session for new staff and can they please borrow some of your bags for the session.

12) They then phone back again and ask if you'd be prepared to give the training session instead.

13) Fashion magazines phone you to ask what you think the newest trend or design will be for the new season.

14) Your collection is so big - you have to use a card index to find the bag you need right now!

15) You walk past a field of cows and spend the next thirty minutes working out in your head how many bags and trim the herd would be good for.

If any of these strike you just a little too close for comfort -- maybe you should consider cutting down a bit?

Just don't try going cold turkey -- it hurts like hell!

High fashion relents to Web’s pull
When companies first started to sell items online in the 1990s, most luxury brands barely paid attention, but now luxury clothing companies have started or soon will start selling their products through their Web sites. (NYT photos) The website for Marc Jacobs, the flamboyant fashion designer with an estimated $5 billion brand, has many things: stylish videos of employees describing their jobs ...

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With societies most affluent shoppers enjoying their money more while shopping for fashion accessories, premium designer brands are all scrambling to be noticed by this most discriminating segment of the buying public.

With recent economic trends placing an increasingly larger amount to of disposable income in the exclusive shoppers bank account, they have responding by coining the new common phrase “image is everything” that can be heard in malls across the land.

This trend is not limited or confined by borders and is now spreading worldwide. In fact, when Prasanna Bhaskar, who happens to be retail manager for Louis Vuiton calculated that the 300-plus Suhali Goat Leather Handbags he allocated for a newly burgeoning Indian market would be enough, he soon found out his initial estimates were inaccurate.

They sold out completely within sixty days, which only stands as mute testament to the growing International demand for this type and style of high end designer handbag.

In fact, with price tags of $2,964.36, he assumed that a fashion accessory of this type might be a long term proposition in the newly emerging Indian high end retail sector. However; the exact opposite turned out the be true, as other similar products are also flying out of exclusive shops and boutiques all across India.

It seems that denim has become a permenent part of todays fashions and designers seem to simply never run out of creative uses for it.
Marc Jacobs has proven this point once again by creating a Quilted Denim Large Hobo Banana that carries a $880.00 price tag on it.

Its unique overall look that features bulky brass straps and catchy slanted zipper pockets make this roomy functional bag a must have item. Of course, it features Marc Jacobs signature signature brass hardware as as well as creative top stitched leather features.

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Guests at a recent luncheon for the Crosstown Learning Center's board of directors brought new and gently used designer handbags to start the collection for the 2010 Old Bags benefit, Nov. 11 at Southern ...

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