MUSES—An Homage to The Original “What’s in my bag”
How the original "What's in My Bag" book inspired me to begin a fun series with close friends. Coming this spring.
Last year I came across Liana Satenstein’s Substack covering Kate Spade’s revolutionary book “Contents”. The book was published in the 2000’s and it highlights the contents of 46 women’s bags that had been dumped out and photographed. There IS a lot that you can gather about a woman by the contents of her purse, which got me thinking…
For years I’ve obsessed over this concept. It’s simple, it’s raw, it’s relatable, and inspiring. I’ve always loved peeking into a woman’s messy bag spills, it’s one of my favorite features in magazines and YouTube videos. Over the years I’ve searched high and low on Pinterest and Tumblr for endless sources of inspiration and photographed the contents of my own bag as well. If you’re reading this, you’ve most likely posted a bag spill or two on your own feed. Although Contents was published a quarter of a century ago, the concept is still very relevant and I don’t see it going anywhere.
For years I’ve had this idea of creating a section of interviews on my blog where I chat with a handful of my closest friends—friends who are creators, curators, and tastemakers in the industry. They’re interesting women who I look up to, whose closets I’d love to raid, and most importantly, whose brains I'd like to pick. The resurgence of this book inspired me to blend one with the other. I’m dying to see what fashionable/relatable spilled-out messes my favorite modern muses carry in their everyday bag—so I’m starting a series in which we spill the contents in more ways than one and pay homage to the original “What’s in my bag.”
I’m titling it “Muses” and you can expect a weekly post up on the blog this spring!
More on this soon but for now, the contents of my own bag:
Always in my bag:
LPR: Lip liner, wallet, and keys.
X,LPR