Vera Bradley isn’t just paisley and floral these days. The prints have evolved and with their huge up to 50% off sale, you can stock up on all the travel-friendly bags and accessories you could ever need. There is a ridiculous amount to choose from, and each style comes in a multitude of patterns. And, if you’re still…

Now’s the time to splurge on a new pair of shoes because they’re up to 80% off at Lord & Taylor. Everything from sandals to knee-high boots are marked down and there are tons for under $100. Plus, there’s also up to 80% off select handbags so if you’re a matching-shoe-and-bag kinda person, this is for you.

Josephine McAllister of Albuquerque , NM was recently booked on a grab bag of charges (including larceny, obstruction of the law and receiving stolen credit cards). But all of that wasn't enough, so McAllister is also adding "hiding a gun in the privates" to her list of charges. Except her story needs some work.

And here you thought it was impossible to find a vintage Chanel: There's a new exhibit in the U.K., built around a brass bag made in Mosul, Iraq sometime in the 1300s. Inlaid with silver-and-gold scenes of court life, it's basically the fourteenth-century Iraqi equivalent of a Judith Leiber clutch.

New York designer Camille Zarsky makes python-skin handbags. She imports her materials from Europe, but she'd like to start sourcing a little closer to home, and she suspects she could even do a bit of ecological good—by making her products out of Florida pythons, Fast Company reports.

The jig is up, ladies! Better scurry down to your "purse connection," aka your cousin's friend who works at the Cinnabon at the mall, because time is running out to get your hands on your favorite knock-off designer bags.

A British luxury retailer has surveyed its female customers and found that every day, women tote around almost $2,000 worth of junk on their arms. Yep — those big ass purses combined with all of the lady flotsam contained therein are worth more than most people's monthly rent. I guess I'm doing a shitty job at being a…

Well, the jig is up, ladies. You aren't buying that designer handbag for you, or for fashion. You're buying it to show other bitches exactly who's boss, so that when they take one look at the cool, reptilian superiority of your crocodile Birkin, they get the message: You have a man, and they better stay the fuck away…

A French back in France called Societe Generale is offering a pink-and-gold "Pour Elle" bank card as part of a red hot summer deal aimed at all those helpless women who are always losing their handbags, locking themselves out of their apartments, or frying their electrical sockets with arcade-sized novelty pinball…

It's simultaneously depressing and fun that a YouTube search for "my birkin" yields a subculture: pages upon pages of posted videos from psyched consumers (some regular fashion video bloggers, some in areas of the country that don't have accessible Hermès stores) displaying their goods. A number of the videos don't…

Queens: they're just like us! The monarch's loyal subjects have been dying for a peek into 85-year-old Queen Elizabeth's classic Launer handbag for decades. But according to royal biographer Bedell Smith, the Queen's purse holds everyday items such as lipstick, a mirror, and a £5 note "to donate to the church…

Margaret Thatcher's black Asprey handbag is not fancy. It is, in fact, quite plain. Simple. Minimalist. Rigidly structured. Square. Devoid of decoration. But, as the Daily Mail reports, Margaret Thatcher's handbag holds an important place in political history. Thatcher used the handbag to carry important documents and…

Yes, it's a Louis Vuitton trashbag (though they're calling it the "Raindrop Besace") and it's $2000. Derelicte. [Refinery29, Earlier]

• As mentioned earlier, police believe they have discovered the body of Annie Le stuffed in a wall in the medical building. "We're not believing it's a random act" said a police spokesman.

Headline on advice column: "My oversized handbag is causing me pain." One recommendation: Stop using it? [Telegraph]

If you're anything like us, the first thing you'll think when you see this uncanny beef jerky "Chanel" bag is, Beware of Dog! The purse was made by design student Nancy Wu at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA; we'd really like to hear what Kaiser Karl would have to say about this one. (And yes, we do…

Large bags were a ubiquitous fashion trend in 2007, and the trend for 2008? Bigger bags. Are we just getting used to carrying a ton of stuff? Poor Andy Rooney, who noticed this trend back in November, is going to be apoplectic. According to the Wall Street Journal, doctors say the recommended weight of a handbag…

Most 20-somethings we know can hardly afford their rent, not to mention an entire "transition wardrobe". No matter! Like so many other fashion magazines, Harper's Bazaar lives in an alternate universe; one in which merchandise is presented in order to please advertisers, not relate to readers. So maybe we shouldn't…

Today's Financial Times reports that French luxury goods group LVMH had strong third-quarter sales, thanks in part to the Louis Vuitton "Neverfull" handbag, pictured. Additionally, Burberry also had revenue growth thanks to its line of handbags. In a video posted on the NY Times' website on Sunday, controversial Times…

The Chanel "Diamond Is Forever" bag can be yours. For $261,000! It's studded with diamonds and rendered from white gold. And hell, for that price it better be able to teach us how to speak Russian, too. But yet, it doesn't. It appears to be, uh, an ordinary handbag.So for the love of God, can someone please explain to…