Handbag Links of Interest

In this section of our directory we provide links to various resources relevant to handbags, from retail stores and wholesalers to factories, news, designers and the leather trade. We hope you find this information helpful for your research; if you have suggestions regarding resources to be added to this section, please let us know.

Two companies anchor the handbag market’s public face, and their profiles are linked below as well: Coach, the American leather goods house, and Louis Vuitton, whose handbag lines define the luxury end. And do not forget the handbag posts on the Apparel Search fashion blog, linked in the resources, for current coverage.

Handbag Companies and the Wider Market

Handbags sit at the commercial center of many fashion businesses: for luxury houses the category carries a large share of revenue and nearly all of the entry-level price architecture, which is why the company profiles linked below reward reading. Coach built the American accessible-luxury leather goods market and remains the standard case study in handbag brand building; Louis Vuitton’s handbag lines define the global luxury tier and its pricing power. Around those anchors, the luxury brands directory and the best handbags guide map the wider field, from designer labels to the contemporary brands most shoppers actually buy. For a manufacturer, these pages are market research: the silhouettes, materials and hardware finishes the leading companies sell are the reference points a factory’s samples will be judged against, and the news directory tracks how those references move season by season.

How to Use These Links

The resources are grouped by intent. Handbag retail stores are department stores and boutiques that sell handbags. Handbag wholesalers are distributors of handbags; the companies in that section sell to retail stores, not to consumers. Handbag factories produce handbags to sell to wholesalers and retailers, and the factory directory is the starting point for private-label and contract production. Handbag news collects coverage from various sources around the internet, and handbag designers are the studios that specialize in designing handbags, purses and other types of bags. The leather industry portals are helpful for manufacturers that wish to learn about or purchase leather for manufacturing product.

Within this handbag section itself, the sibling pages divide the subject by task: manufacturers explains the production process, factories lists production resources, leather suppliers covers the material, trim factories covers components and closures, and the guides page collects buying guides and definitions. Moving between them follows the way a bag is actually made: design, material, components, production, sale.

A note on using link directories well: start from the task you have today. A designer speccing a first bag needs the process and trim pages; a buyer replacing a factory needs the factory directory and the leather suppliers; a retailer needs wholesalers and stores; a student needs the definitions and guides. The links above are kept in those task groups so the section can be entered at the point of need rather than read end to end.