Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Makeovers of Gucci Classical Handbag:The New Bamboo

Gucci creative director Frida Giannini has released the New Bamboo in the end of January, 2010, which brings new face of 21st century for Gucci the most classical handbag style and integrates profound history of traditional and high-class fashion with new high-tech; re-interprets the classical style. Ginanini The New Bamboo is provided with a unique variation and reflects the insights of Giannini to luxury fashion with a new dynamic and casual style.

Gucci Bamboo handbag was originally designed into precise-line and fine-handwork small ones with porcine-skin leather and decorated with curved bamboo handle. Born in 1947, it soon became the wise model of coping with the scarcity of resources for Gucci craftsmen during war. Bamboo raw material produce in Japan and is bend into a semicircle after being heated, then decorated in the grainy-cover porcine-skin bag as handle. The new design and its unique fashion style soon became universally loved. From 1950 to 1960, Gucci Bamboo handbag became the favourite of many international celebrities, making it one of the most popular and favourite Gucci handbags.

Giannini re-interprets this classical brand and outlines the new fashion aesthetic of handbag in different variations while keeps loyal to the creative essence of the original design and extraordinary craft. There are 140 pieces of different components in Gucci New Bamboo, which are hand-sewn by the experienced craftsmen of the workshop in Florence and comes down in one continuous line with the original design. The craft takes up to 13 hours to make sure that every detail is perfect.

The handbag is now launching the classical size and new larger size styles. It is in accordance with the classical design in the interval of inside the bag which are decorated with tow pockets(one is zipper pocket, the other is button pocket) and included a mirror. The original out suture are taken place by fashionable and concise convex leather edging. It is the first time for the brand to decorate this collection of handbag with nickel alloy, making it more stylish. The new design not only retains the original long-shoulder strap, but also matches with metal chain belt, adding with bamboo tassel that makes the modeling more sexy.

As to the material, Giannini uses a variety of fabrics and gathers high-tech in order to make them perfectly match with the traditional luxury quality of the brand. After being elaborately selected and sprayed with grey color-paint, the porcine-skin leather used in Gucci original design radiates rocky-like effect. Soft grainy Cellarius calfskin is sprayed with bright magenta and orange. Porcine handbags and Cellarius leather handbags both twin the bamboo handle with fine-woven leather as decoration. New Bamboo even has super fashionable style made from high-tech synthetic rubber and is printed with the logo of GG on the fabric. There is another ultimate fashion luxury style, of which the white or black python-skin leather presents rubber texture. The color effect of this handbag changes from light to dark and then extend to light, which is also a variation of Gucci classical loop design.

There is a series of exclusive style in Gucci shop including a black crocodile-skin leather style with rubber texture and light-to-dark contract color effect, and chocolate or blending "petrifaction" crocodile-skin leather style. The latter is made by hand-abraded, more casual and nostalgic. Besides, there are cobalt blue and magenta glossy crocodile-skin leather, and GG canvas edged with glossy Cellarius leather or crocodile leather.

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