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BAG LADY.

The New Yorker

| September 25, 2006 | Lee, Andrea | COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

I had a handbag epiphany recently at a literary luncheon in Milan. The occasion was a book launch for Isabel Allende, at a grand apartment behind La Scala, and the high-ceilinged rooms lined with paintings were crammed with writers, a few Italian senators, and a countess. The largely feminine company being the kind of leftist intellectuals who don't dress up, there was little flamboyance in attire, but a glance at one of the couches in the salotto told a different story. Parked there were five enormous crocodile handbags of the latest designer styles--bags as large as Christmas turkeys, groomed and bedizened, glistening and scaly as pet dragons, exuding, in their ...

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