Fashion: Paper, Plastic or Prada?

Grocery shopping gets chic with eco-friendly designer totes to bag your greens

Paper, plastic or Prada? Grocery shopping gets chic with eco-friendly designer totes to bag your greens, here an Anya Hindmarch bag.

For fashion-conscious women, every season has an It handbag. Shopping blogs, lunch hours and entire episodes of Sex and the City are devoted to discussing the waiting lists, long lines and bribes to key salespeople often required to get an early shot at the most sought-after Birkin, Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga or Fendi baguette. So when the newest must-have tote, designed by British bag guru Anya Hindmarch, went on sale in England in April, it wasn't terribly unusual that devotees began lining up at 2 a.m. or that all 20,000 coveted pieces were gone by 9 a.m. What was odd was that...

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