The handbags worth knowing, read the way a trained eye reads them: leather, stitching, hardware and stamps. Begin with The Handbags Worth Knowing, our guide to pre-owned designer handbags and the stories behind them.
How the specialists keep bags and jewelry at their best: tissue and dust bags, why you never hang a handbag, purse organizer inserts and when to take them out, jewelry boxes that keep pieces apart, and which cleaners are safe for which stones.
The Hermès Kelly, appraised: the saddler's bag Robert Dumas drew in the 1930s, the 1956 photograph that made it famous, the battered original Grace Kelly carried for years, and what to check pre-loved.
