Boy oh boy: Chanel bags in this summer’s colours Chanel-spiration: ready for summer with the reissue 2.55 in attention-seeking red Chanel – chic, versatile genius. And that’s just the bags. A few years ago, when I didn’t seem to need to carry quite so much stuff, my ‘knockaround’ bag was a small and much-loved black caviar leather Chanel. Nestled snugly under my arm, with its silver hardware reassuringly but subtly resplendent and just the right side of punk, it fitted almost everything I needed, though it didn’t have an external pocket for an Oyster card, which meant I opened and closed it a lot. On a birthday shopping trip to Bicester, I opened it one too many times and my iPhone ran aw
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