DANIEL HECHTER VINTAGE HANDBAG
HISTORY OF DANIEL HECHTER VINTAGE HANDBAG
KOMELY HANDBAG FACTORY
Daniel Hechter’s leaping tracksuit represents the age of performance fashion. His reality – check womenswear emerged in the 1960s, with function dominating style.
Hechter is realistic about his role: “Fashion is not art. It can be artistic, but it is not art. I’m really a stylist. I respect designers who create fashion, like Chanel, Poiret. or Levis…(but) if you dress a billion people, that’s phenomenal.”
The first Young ladies Tote collection, co-designed with friend Armand Orustein, was launched in 1963, and was perfectly pitched for the “youthquake” market.
He persuaded Twiggy to model bags that were targeted at young women who aspired do a designer lifestyle and integrated pop culture into his scheme, creating accessible classic bags designed to be worn out and then replaced.
His maxi evening bag collection and metal accessories were counterpointed with menswear that mixed separates the 1970s.