Kovels’ Top 11 Picks for Fun and Exclusive Handbags!

This week we celebrate National Handbag Day with a wide-eyed look at some of the top exclusive and expensive designer purses on record. The term “purse” originally referred to a small bag for holding coins. We’ve certainly come a long way from that! The word handbag began appearing in the early 1900s. Now, handbags, purses and […]

Judith Leiber Purses: A Marriage of Sparkle, Imagination

Handbags by designer and businesswoman Judith Leiber (1921-2018) are unique in both shape — often mimicking animals, toys, food items, and even buildings — and whimsy. Most were made with a rigid metal shell, often encrusted with Swarovski crystals, rhinestones and semi-precious stones. A selection of Leiber’s small conversation-piece purses, called “minaudières” meaning “to be […]