There have been purses, like Christian Louboutin's Pilule, a pill-shaped minaudière, and an Olympia Le-Tan book clutch.
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The Textured ClutchIt's a lot more fun than a crossbody or a minaudière at night — plus, it holds a lot more, too. 100.
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There's also a clutch cameo: The ShoePeaks minaudière, which was part of Louboutin's 2007 collab with David Lynch, is also featured in the drawings.
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Blake Lively carried the koi bag — from the company founded by the late, great Judith Leiber, queen of the minaudière — to a 2015 film premiere.
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Meghan donned her elegant LWD with a Philip Treacy hat and accented the look with sharp black accessories, including a skinny belt, pointy pumps, and a minaudière clutch.
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Elegant evening bags from the recently reintroduced heritage accessories label Bienen-Davis, like a calf-hair clutch ($2,195) and a tasseled minaudière ($2,595), are now at Barneys New York.
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Created in collaboration with irreverent French fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan, who's best known for her highly coveted minaudière handbags inspired by classic literature, the limited-edition fall line seems like a surprisingly offbeat choice for the timeless beauty brand.
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Albert Boghossian, 57, the business's animated chief executive, kept me in suspense: No stunning jewels until I had seen the family's personal collection of intricately worked antiques, including a hand-carved coral minaudière, embossed and enameled medicine boxes, lockets studded with miniature pearl pavé and cigarette boxes with mother-of-pearl intarsia.
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Minaudière created in 1934 by Van Cleef & Arpels for millionaire Florence Gould. A minaudière is a women's fashion accessory, generally considered a jewelry piece, intended to substitute for an evening bag. A case with compartments, it allows storage for several items in a small space, such as a makeup compact, lipstick, watch, reading glasses, or keys. The minaudière appeared during the 1930s.
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According to press articles of the timeNon signé, « Le plus beau présent de Paris : la Minaudière », blog L'Histoire des Van Cleef et des Arpels de Paris, lire en ligne (page consultée le 16 juin 2011) the minaudière was invented by Van Cleef & Arpels in 1934. Charles Arpels was inspired by watching Florence Gould, third wife of philanthropist Frank Jay Gould, toss several small, loose makeup items into a tin box. The word "minaudière" was a French term for a coquettish woman, from the word "minauder" (to flirt or simper).
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A minaudière may contain several small compartments, carefully designed to organize the owner's personal items for maximum utility. According to fashion journalist Lloyd Boston, a minaudière constitutes an "essential" part of an evening wardrobe, a small object with no limit to its usefulness, and a "fabulous character". Lloyd Boston, The Style Checklist : The Ultimate Wardrobe Essentials for You, p.
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In 1993, the perfume was reformulated by Hubert Fraysse, brother of André and founder of fragrance manufacturer Synarome. A special edition minaudière (evening bag) was launched in 2013 to mark the 85th birthday of the perfume.
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The store was later closed. Fashion items included marcasite cuff links and necklaces by Judith Jack, Kathrine Baumann designed pave minaudière and purse accessories, sterling silver by Judy Kuo and Bill Schiffer and Gérald Genta designed watches. Also, Nicole Miller designed a collection sold there that included backpack, eyewear case and toiletry kit. Items from Disney's private label were of higher quality.
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This style space odyssey's, silhouettes featured boxy tweed jackets, Bermuda shorts, silver leather suits, foil quilted capes, glitter boots, and diamanté collars. The ensembles were accessorized with bejeweled ear warmers, sparkly arm warmers, silver backpacks, and minaudière in the shape of a rocket. This season's palette was black, silver, white, grey, and blue. Fabrications included tweed, leather, shearling, wool, silk, lurex, chiffon, and jersey, embellished with crystals and sequins.
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Generally metal plated and oblong, sized small enough to be held within the hand, a minaudière is a dainty accessory. The materials used to make it are most frequently rigid, with a metallic finish such as gold or silver.Certaines minaudières sont toutefois fabriquées en matériaux moins onéreux tels l'argent ou le styptor, alliage d'argent et d'étain créé dans les années trente par Van Cleef & Arpels. Cf. Jean-Jacques Richard, L'Histoire des Van Cleef et des Arpels, Books on demand, 2010.
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The exterior may be detailed with precious or semi-precious stones, or decorated with lacquer or mother of pearl. However, textile designs also exist, with cloth overlaying a frame or flexible and supple, using velour, silk or brocade fabric, embroidered or not. Some minaudières include a lanyard or chain to place over the wrist. Other designs have a satin or velour pouch to hold the minaudière.Catherine Cariou, « La Minaudière de Van Cleef & Arpels », Paris Joaillerie, 5 mars 2007, lire en ligne (page consultée le 16 juin 2011) The interior can reveal the ingenuity of the designer.
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First Lady Hillary Clinton carried a Socks-shaped minaudière to the 1996 Inaugural Ball. It was designed by Judith Leiber, a designer famous for her whimsically-shaped rhinestone- encrusted evening bags. The bag is currently on display at the Amsterdam Museum of Bags and Purses. Hillary Clinton wrote a children's book called Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets in 1998.Clinton, Hillary, Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets, Simon & Schuster, 1998, , It included more than 50 letters written to the First Pets by children and more than 80 photographs of Socks and Buddy.
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In 1923 Lacaze began to work for Van Cleef & Arpels,Van Cleef & Arpels where it was not long before his exceptional talent for drawing was spotted. Together with Alfred van Cleef's daughter, Renée Rachel Puissant, he took over as head of artistic and creative design at Van Cleef & Arpels in 1926. This period saw the creation of famous pieces of jewellery such as the Minaudière and the introduction of the 'serti invisible' technique which enabled gemstones to be held in place without visible prongs or claws. In June 1928 Lacaze married his wife Simone; the couple went on to have four children.
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Madeleine Masson was born Madeleine Levy in 1912 in Johannesburg to a French banker, Emile Levy, and Lili, "a ravishingly beautiful creature with Viennese antecedents". On a trip to Paris with her parents, 18-year-old Madeleine met 40-year-old Baron Renaud Marie de la Minaudière. As she put it in her autobiography, I Never Kissed Paris Goodbye, "I was a small-town South African who was being offered Prince Charming on a platter, decked with yachts, châteaux, sable coats, jewels, townhouses and a coat-of-arms equal to that of the Valois." Madeleine took her surname "Masson" from one of the Baron's subsidiary titles.
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The museum receives many donations from collectors who, for ethical reasons, no longer wish to keep animal-based handbags themselves. Brand name bags came to the fore in the 1950s, and the museum holds many examples, including several quilted Chanel purses, early examples of Gucci's bamboo-handled handbag, and the Hermès Kelly Bag. There are also bags on display with a larger history: the museum displays a handbag owned by Margaret Thatcher, as well as a Judith Leiber minaudière identical to the one Hillary Clinton brought to the 1993 Inauguration Ball shaped like the Clinton cat, Socks."Evening bag 'Socks', Judith Leiber, USA, 1996".
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