in AN age of struggling retail profits, handbags have overtaken perfume as the biggest moneymaker for designers and fashion houses. Sales have risen by 150 per cent in the past five years - with British women spending Pounds 350 million on bags a year.
So when Marie Curie Cancer Care recently announced its celebrity auction Porcelain Rings (see box), it came as little surprise that the fashion item chosen to be sold off for charity would be the newly empowered handbag.
Its status at the top of the fashion barometer makes sense - this is an accessory that is neither ageist, elitist nor lookist. A woman of any age, from a size eight to a size 18, can make a statement with a bag, and what's more there are enough great ones out there to suit everyone, whatever the budget.
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However, if like most of us you are on a budget and don't want to spend a fortune on a bag whose reputation will be sullied by Coleen McLoughlin buying one in every colour, head for the high street for a lookalike.
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. The Marie Curie Cancer Care celebrity auction will be held at The Royal Exchange, EC3, from 6.30pm on Thursday For tickets, call 020 7599 7308 or 0800 716 146.
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