This is a bag of secrets, or at least that's what people say. It's certainly one of the few bags that leaves a lot to the imagination. Now, why would Coco create a space for us to hide our secrets? I've often wondered what secrets the first owners of these bags would need to hide.
How naive of me to wonder why us women would need a private place for our handwritten notes and faded photographs of lovers. Because we all know the women who walked before us did not walk in equal comfort, nor in equal pleasure. But perhaps secrets are not walls put up to keep others out.
The classic flaps pockets are here to tuck away moments too precious for the world. A space for that ever-busied woman to revisit these memories in her own time, at rest. How the first owner lived life will always be marked with the smallest things that they carry.
These intimate archives left for us in the smallest pockets. In this moment you realize that these bags are full of memories, or secrets as they say. And it is every story worth keeping close.