“Insects—part delicacy, part gag—are chic again,” The New Yorker’s Dana Goodyear wrote recently. She was talking about the rise of entomophagy—that’s eating bugs to you or me—but you don’t have to take to the kitchen to get into the buggy spirit. Creepy crawlers have been a mainstay in jewelry these last few seasons. Here, [...]

Philanthropically-minded designer and high-profile bride-to-be Lauren Bush is famous for carrying her burlap FEED totes to even the biggest-deal social events. But, she concedes, “I know not all women are inclined to do that.” So Bush has teamed up with Judith Leiber—”the industry standard” for evening clutches, she points out—to launch the line’s first-ever nighttime [...]

There’s a new evening bag I’ve been spotting everywhere at the Resort collections—the boxy, semiprecious minaudière. My favorites have been inlaid with shimmering mother-of-pearl, like the one I first fell for at Louis Vuitton (top), spotted again at Lanvin, and saw this morning at Judith Leiber (bottom). They look less like traditional minaudières than like [...]

There are accessories and then there are accessories. In the latter (that’s non-clutch, non-shoe, non-belt) category, we can place Best Made Company’s axes. Unlikely but true, the made-in-the-U.S.A. axes—as in, chop-down-a-tree axes—became a media sensation last year, finding their way into Wallpaper, The New York Times, Daily Candy, countless blogs, and Andy Spade’s trendsetting Partners [...]

To celebrate the launch of Judith Leiber’s self-published biography No Mere Bagatelles: Telling the Story of Handbag Genius Judith Leiber & Modernist Artist Gerson Leiber as well as over four decades of the brand, Bergdorf Goodman is creating a mini-museum of current and past creations that will be on display starting tomorrow on its main [...]

As many an officebody will attest, browsing for handbags is a pleasant way to spend a lunch hour. So why not do it for charity? That was the opportunity at Tuesday’s Third Annual Purses and Pursenalities luncheon given by the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club. The first hour of the fête found Olivia Chantecaille, [...]