Long before the Birkin bag, there was the Kelly … Model grace inspired by no less a princess whose mythic allure Hitchcock dazzled the rock and the world.
Owning a Kelly is taking some of the myth.
Men workshops, to reach the accessory worship, here is the wonderful story signed by Hermes House.
This is probably the most famous bag in the world, one of the few known by name. Owning the Kelly, but a status or a symbol of success is owning a part of a myth, a small piece of the goddess, a lot of grace ….
Initially, Hermes is primarily a saddlery founded in 1837 by Thierry Hermes. The development of the car pushes Emile, the little son, to look to creating leather accessories. Being chic self, solo or duo, led to the creation of the first bag house.
A bag simple, no frills designed to be placed in a car door, designed by Ettore Bugatti and Emile, and for his wife Julie. The “Bugatti” born of the association in 1923. Inspiration of the kelly bag, which allowed to wear the saddle. Bag strap top, and from this model …
Designed by Rober Dumas in the 30s, this Hermes bag like no other, was first called “belt bag ladies.”
Anatomy of the myth …. The Kelly is primarily a trapezoid with a bottom. To close two girth. This Hermes handbag “all terrain” can be placed on the ground, protected by four studs located below. Neither decorative or precious little inclined to be on his knees, he aspires to travel … Moreover, it is lined with leather for the first version as a luggage and locks. The Kelly is not a bestseller, but it remains the catalog.
It will take an American princess and a photograph published by “Life” in 1956. It is said that the Princess of Monaco sought to conceal the roundness of her pregnancy behind her large bag Hermes model. What is not said is that the actress had ordered half a dozen boxes in black, honey, brown, red Hermes, dark green … This photograph, which has toured the world as cover magazines, had a huge impact. All elegantly captured the model, renamed by the fans of fashion, Kelly.
But this is only twenty-one year later that the Hermes bag is officially appointed.
Today the family of the Kelly family tree widely developed: eight sizes, the Kelly 50 (50 cm) at Kelly Mini-mini (15cm), twenty materials, box, ostrich, crocodile, lizard, vibrato, all colors of Hermes, the tricolor version … more than 200 possible combinations. And all whims are allowed if one judges by the workshop special orders which has made Hermes bags in leather and denim, camouflage fabric, old carpet, sheared mink …
Sport version, town or evening with padlock jewelry in gold and diamonds, Kelly has more than one trick up his sleeve: he is present at any time and in any situation of a woman’s life. The Kellyado was created in 1995, the year of the Road, to meet the habits of a new young clientele.
The Shoulder Kelly, while length, worn under the arm, has been revisited by Jean-Paul Gaultier for his first show ready-to-wear autumn winter 2004. More recently, the designer still plays with the classic and present at the parade ready-to-wear spring-summer 2007 the Kelly Flat. Once again, the Hermes handbag is reinvented in a completely unstructured version saddler: soft, rolled, tied with a belt that replaces the girth.