The fashion trap - Empty bags

FASHION is a lucrative wing of the entertainment business; sometimes imposing the most demanding strictures for very limited and passing returns — as anyone who has come to regret a tattoo will confirm.

Today we report on the importance handbags have come to assume in the lives of those who imagine that fashion is something more than a never-ending and very effective treadmill to make money for manufacturers, retailers and designers.

Some people may be empty-headed enough to imagine that a €2,000 handbag confers individualism, or represents some sort of achievement of substance.

In reality they are simply ostentatious, vulgar and confirmation that a fool and their money are soon parted. Of course the most insidious of all fashions is that it is deeply unfashionable to say something like this.