Trendy handbags may come and go, but the LLBean Boat and Tote remains a classic.
The bags have become a staple behind the scenes as well, especially on sets where stylists and their assistants are required to lug multiple looks, laptops, pairs of shoes, and other miscellaneous equipment when working in a studio or on location. Rather than dragging around a trunk or, God forbid, a wheeled suitcase, the boat and tote offers a practical, minimalist alternative. Bradley calls it “schlepping with style.
“These bags can support a tremendous amount of weight, and you can fit just about anything you’d need on set in them,” says Steven La Fuente, also an editor and stylist, whose first tote was a prop left over from a nautical-themed shoot on a yacht on the Hudson. “I also love stashing my clips and pins along the rim of the bag for easy access.” Now he owns a custom black-on-black XL version and a miniature version he found on eBay.
To some, their appeal lies in the ability to use the canvas as a kind of billboard, or to subvert the traditional stuffiness associated with monogrammed accessories. You get a maximum of ten characters to say whatever you want, excluding any obscenities. Black has a custom XL all-white version monogrammed with FYI, a “a cheeky way to share my love of information with the world,” he says. The writer Sarah Solomon has multiple: GTH, G&T, SUCCUBUS and YUPPIE SCUM, the last of which “gets a lot of looks because of unfortunate spacing,” she says. “Hindsight is 20/20.
In the art world, the bag has found fans as well: The Bellport-based arts collective Auto Body sells a similar style
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