Blending their love of fashion and adornment, Alison & Marie’s handbag collection also reflects their multi-cultural heritage (Dubai & London) with an emphasis on the bespoke. Handbags are only produced in pairs per style. Take a closer look at our favorites from their Spring/Summer 2011 collection. Via Confashions.

Anuk Harvey based in london  launched an apparel line in 2003 mainly consistting of knitwear. The newly launched hadbag collection takes a modernist minimal apparoach to design we greatly appreciate. On the next page enjoy a look at more styles , via mafrangine.

Cole Haan has long been friend to the stylish working woman, providing classic with a hint of sass footwear that is truely all-day wearable. This year the company is putting extra focus on its bags collection. Materials are more lux and designs are more thoughtful and with more of an eye on longevity. We visited the (amazingly gorgeous) New York showroom last week to check out the Fall 2010 collection and the pony skin bag featured here stood out, but there are lots more after the jump that are equally worthy.

If you don’t adore legendary lensman for the NY Times Bill Cunningham it’s probably only ’cause you don’t know who he is. He’s been doing his "On the Street" photography column for the paper forever, which is, hands down, the best part of the Time’s fashion coverage. This past week he did his totally on-point column on the piping-hot fashion trend of "spidery" high heels combined with short dresses. He also talks about the demise of handbags as the centerpiece of the outfit.  It’s a must-see.

^^"People who complain that there is no fashion and no style…they’re nuts!" –Bill Cunningham.

Lanvin has been killing it ever since they launched their Pret-A-Porter collection. Men go nuts about their sneakers and we like a loooot their new metallic series of bags. Especially the Peplum Series caught our eyes. Great size, good for a day in town or a night away.

You can now purchase it online at Barneys!

Etsy has been highlighted here before. If you haven’t been, it’s a site where people can sell their stuff. It’s kind of like EBay except there’s no time limit or bidding. And I don’t know about all Etsy categories (like furniture and various sundry other crap), but the people who sell clothing there seem to be younger and a lot less cuckoo-cuckoo than the typcial Ebay sellers with their flashing, flower-filled wallpapers and 15 paragraphs on how you’re gonna burn in hell if you don’t send them their money immediately and don’t even THINK about trying to send anything back. Even if, like in my case, they send you dresses that end up being much bigger than you thought ’cause they were pinned back in the photos or shirts with runs they forgot to mention or size 11 shoes that were actually a MEN’s size 11 and so on down the line.

So basically even thought you have to sift through a bunch of gross hippie crap on Etsy–plus ever new damn Mom thinking she has to start a infant clothing line (Ugh!)–it’s still a LOT better than Ebay. Plus, besides vintage stuff, there are a lot of designers there who make there own stuff and some of it is pretty cute.

So, here are some things I came across this past week that I thought you guys would appreciate. I listed the seller’s name and linked to it under the image:

^^NeNee Mod Sequined Mini

^^Future Vintage ’70s Disco Mesh Bag

^^ShannahMMignini Mod Mod Sandals

Click to the right to see more images including some AMAZING retro Nikes. (But because the backend of HighSnobette can sometimes be a total pain in the ASS, I can’t link to the buyers on the other page. You’ll just have to go to the site and search for them. You’re a smart bunch, I’m sure you can manage.)

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