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From A 16th Century Purse To SJP’s Fendi Baguette, The V&A’s New Exhibit Has It All

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V&A’s much-anticipated blockbuster exhibition, Bags: Inside Out, is a 1940s handbag that was custom-made to carry a gas mask.

It would be reductive to equate the pandemic to a world war – and a surgical face covering to a gas mask – but it’s a poignant demonstration of the ways in which we adapt the minutiae of our daily lives during periods of historic change. “Throughout history, handbags have morphed their function and changed their purpose,” curator Lucia Savi tells me ahead of the exhibition opening, “responding and adapting according to the times. ” With national lockdowns moving the show from April to September to, finally, this weekend, excitement has built over the course of a year that saw us stuck inside without much use for.

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