Honey, they shrank the bag: Designer totes go mini

Designer totes have gone micro and the fashion elite can’t get enough of them. Style editor Annmarie O’Connor on the rise of the mini bag.

Over the past few fashion seasons a curious trend has emerged: bags have gotten smaller. Puzzlingly so.

The mála in both mini and micro forms has emerged in street style blogs as a decorative bauble designed to dangle while traversing a zebra crossing or scrolling casually through one’s iPhone; not for actually holding much, if anything at all.