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You know, I see that when there are children starving,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Lennard continues. "But I work for my beautiful things."
Like Lennard, many others also appreciate the importance of a handbag.
"We were told by one of our consumers that if there was a fire in her house,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the one thing she would save would be her Mulberry handbag,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," says Lisa Montague,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Mulberry's chief operating officer, "which I found, in one way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], quite shocking."
In another way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that's sweet, sweet music. "Women are willing to pay more and are more passionate about bags,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," says chief industry analyst Marshal Cohen of the NPD Group, a market research firm. "They now call them an investment."
Mulberry sales are up 44 percent year-on-year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the quintessentially English brand has just opened stores in New York and Los Angeles. handbag market is worth around $6 billion a year and growing. Designers push their bags in magazines, and models often carry handbags on the runways of fashion shows.
And then there's Louis Vuitton's new Tribute Patchwork, a collage creation made from some of the fashion house's iconic bags. The Tribute Patchwork retails at around $45,000.
Back at Lennard's apartment, she unpacks a brand new Louis Vuitton bag. I naively ask if she might use the shoulder strap provided. "I'm not a fan of shoulder straps,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," she says with raised eyebrow. "I think it's a little bit peasant."
Lennard, a model and aspiring television presenter, is a self-confessed handbag addict. She says beautiful bags give her confidence.
"If you have a fantastic bag and you know you have a fantastic bag and everybody who looks at you knows you have a fantastic bag, you feel like Superwoman,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," she tells me.
"Bags are not like dresses," cautions Fletcher. "If you're a good-looking woman and you put a good dress on, you look good," he says. "But if you're not so good-looking and you buy an expensive dress, it doesn't look so good. … That bag, whether you're well-dressed or not,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], pretty or not, shows a statement."
And men shouldn't be smug here. They spend a lot more on status symbols, cars being the most obvious.
For the woman who can't afford the genuine article, there is always a fake version from the Far East, or the cheaper look-alike from a High Street store. This week we went to see Anya Hindmarch, the designer of the top-notch bags that bear her name, as she launches her 2007 fall collection at a London art gallery.
"Handbags have become the accessory," she tells me as well-heeled guests arrive,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], air kiss and get down to the serious business of bag buying.
For the true connoisseur,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a cheap knockoff just doesn't cut it. "For us,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it's about tactility," explains Lisa Montague at Mulberry. "The quality oozes from the style itself. And that's very hard to replicate at a lower price."
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