Glass Bags Are a Thing Now

An excellent bag needs to be two issues: Product of glass, and topped with satan’s horns.

If our tradition can’t discover consensus on this but, we are going to quickly: the glass bag pattern has arrived, courtesy of the French model Coperni. The ready-to-wear firm is a favourite of the Hadids, Hailey Bieber, and Rihanna. Coperni is maybe greatest identified for its “swipe” purse—an rectangular, scooped out oval that the designers say is a tackle an iPhone’s “swipe to unlock” icon. Seen in one other mindset, the bag is identical define as an outsized deviled egg.  

The unique Coperni swipe bag got here to prominence during the last 12 months—as Maddy in Euphoria, performed by Alexa Demie, wore a mini Coperni swipe within the notorious “Bitch, you higher be joking” scene. Throughout the previous few months, an much more viral follow-up has been strategically unleashed: a extremely breakable model of the bag, made in collaboration with the hand-blown glass model Heven. Designers Breanna Field and Peter Dupont instructed i-D that the glass blowing course of concerned utilizing an “air hose,” and that the purse operate is the results of a drill and scissors. It’s true that the bag can technically maintain one or two small objects. However principally, it capabilities extra like jewellery–it’s a handheld artwork piece.

Glamour reached out to Coperni for details about find out how to buy the glass bag and obtained this response: “Our design crew is presently engaged on this Swipe Bag to be produced for a restricted run at on-line retailer and it’s estimated that extra precise data on value and launch date will probably be obtainable throughout the following weeks.” Web page Six has reported that the baggage will retail for $2,700. 

One minute, you’re dwelling in a world with only a few large glass purses. The following second, they’re in all places, and for those who swing your arms an excessive amount of, you’ll must be hospitalized. On the Coperni fall/winter 2022 present, Gigi Hadid walked with a transparent model of the bag. Different fashions carried the glass bag, one in a milky blue shade and one in chrome.