The handbag trends that arise during the resort season often predict what is to come for spring/summer. This is essential information for buyers and fashion editors. Accessories, in particular handbags, often generate more income for brands than any other category. With higher profit margins than clothing and a broader attraction for customers, handbags play a crucial role in shaping seasonal collections and stimulating sales.
For Resort 2026, designers generally opted for a safe approach and focused on forms with a nostalgic attraction. Below you will find the striking styles to keep an eye on.
The ‘Sack Tote’
The ‘Sack’ style was the statement bag of the season. The casual appearance responds to the growing demand of consumers for casual luxury. He is spacious enough to take with you all day.
Baum und Pferdgarten: designers Rikke Baumgarten and Helle Hestehave
A black leather bag with a handle decorated with large silver rings.
Khaite: Designer Cate Holstein
The ‘Lotus’ bucket tote of the brand with a handle, redesigned in zebra print ‘pony’ doctrine.
Ermanno Scervino
An oversized ivory leather bag with a removable handle and a key ring.
Elisabetta Franchi
A printed, light brown suede bag with a suede and gold -colored chain string and buckle.
The croissant
It is almost thirty years since Fendi launched their version of the croissant bag, and now the style is back. The 2026 collections resort give the beloved shape a fresh twist and show that everything is coming back.
Balmain: Designer Olivier Rousteing
A pink lamb leather croissant bag with zipper at the top, brown twisted leather handle and golden hardware.
Chloé: Designer Chemena Kamali
A black suede moon bag with rose gold hardware.
Diesel: Designer Glenn Martens
A croissant bag of leather with a multicolored print without a print, adjustable handle and a zipper at the top.
Etro: Designer Marco de Vincenzo
A light brown leather moon bag trimmed with brown leather and a brown handle, golden hardware and decorated with a brown belt with buckle plus a playful key ring.
‘East-West’ bag
This slender, elongated style is also practical because the content is easily accessible, especially if it has a zipper at the top. For Resort 26, designers showed different shapes and colors.
Antonio Marras
A ‘bullet’-shaped bag in yellow-wandered leather with two handles at the top and one at the front.
Balmain: Designer Olivier Rousteing
An ‘East-West’ bag in light lime green leather with a handle on the top, a gold chain fencing and golden hardware.
Courrèges: designer Nicolas di Felice
A bright red ‘East-West’ leather bag with a double compartment, one with a zipper and two long handles.
JW Anderson
An orange leather bag with a zipper at the top, a handhix and a shoulder strap. The front of the bag has a recess and white stitched corners.
Woven textures
For those who travel to warmer places in the winter, bags of straw, raffia and other woven textures are the perfect solution. These materials complement the airy substances and relaxed silhouettes of the resort season and can be used again for the summer.
Blumarin: designer David Koma
Black and cream -colored texture bags with raffia finish and twisted metals and leather handles.
Max Mara: Designer Ian Griffiths
A rattan handbag with strips of black suede, a black suede side and bottom, and handles.
Zimmermann
An oversized woven green, orange and brown striped bag with thin leather handles and a long brown raffia finish.
Chanel
A light brown bag with texture, both long and short handles and golden hardware.
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