Michael Kors is one of America’s top designers. His designs are classy and sophisticated, sometimes fun, even sporty. His style is chic, yet totally wearable. And his brand has this sort of balance of high-end and accessibility. His 2009 resort collection embodies all of these design attributes. The Woven Santorini Clutch is made of intricately woven straw with leather trim, which makes it casual enough for resort. Yet the metallic leather and the gold tone hardware makes it elegant enough for …

Marc Jacobs is one of the hottest designers out there. His handbags are the a favorite among the rich, the young, and the famous crowd – what with friends like Sophia Coppola, and model Jessica Stam.By the way, the Stam bag was named after the beautiful model. And as part of his Fall-Winter handbag collection, Marc Jacobs gave the Stam bag another facelift. The Stam satchel retained its shape and its silver tone hardware. Jacobs also kept the bag’s top handles and rings, the chain shoulder stra…

Michael Kors has one of the most top-of-the-line handbags that America has to offer. The New York-based designer presents his handbags based on different lines and styles. One of them is the ID Chain series, that features metallic chain details.The ID Chain Leather Large Hobo purse from Michael Kors continues that tradition of combining soft structures and hard detailing. The woven leather, heavy chains, and an all-black color palette provides a minimalist twist to this heavily-maximized bag. It…

Michael Kors’ Santorini line of handbags provides a Mediterranean feel whether on your resort outfit or with your stringy bikini. This like is marked with tightly-woven straw surface, metallic-tone patent- leather and hardware, with central flaps and hinge detail.The Large Shopper version may be huge at about 11 inches in height, but you don’t need to worry about having to fill it to the brim so it won’t look soggy. The bag is so structured that it can actually be almost empty and still retains …

The Beverly handbag collection brings out the high-class and elite facet of Michael Kors’ designs, especially if we talk about the materials used. One of his pieces in this line includes a lime-green, alligator-embossed leather clutch that looks very impressive at first, but fails to move us in person.The main highlight of the Beverly Gator Watch Band Clutch is its gold-tone watchband placed across the lime-green alligator front flap. We know how attractive gold can be, but this unique and highl…

The Skorpios handbag collection of Michael Kors caters to the rustic and the hippie-chic. The Hobo-styled handbags can be identified by braided leather straps or fringe detailing. But odd enough, this Italian white leather Skorpios Large Shopper does look like something a hippie chick would carry. Nonetheless, this bag has an impressive finish with gold-tone hardware, open top with magnetic closure, and side drawstring pockets.It’s probably because of its white color that this bag stays away fro…