The Paris Traveler » bags http://www.theparistraveler.com Travel information to help you fall in love with Paris Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:25:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Lancel Paris http://www.theparistraveler.com/2007/07/lancel/ http://www.theparistraveler.com/2007/07/lancel/#comments Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:50:15 +0000 http://www.theparistraveler.com/lancel/ Post from: The Paris Traveler

]]> LancelI really can’t understand what all the hype is about owning a Louis Vuitton bag! Personally, I prefer Lancel. Perhaps it’s nostagic memories of my first Lancel leather purse more than twenty years ago bought for me by one of my French admirers. Or perhaps it has more to do with the fact that although the price was high, the quality of that bag and all the others I have owned since then have lasted throughout the years.

Lancel began in 1876, but it wasn’t until the early 1900’s that the company began to cater to women’s handbags and accessories, and not until 1976, one hundred years later, that the company changed hands and a new modernism of the ‘chic’ woman was born.

Lancel Champs-ElyséesLast year Lancel launched its new store with its largest display window on the Champs-Elysées, and yes, if you think I went into that store and got myself another handbag, you’re right!  You can visit their website, or better yet stop in at one of their more than twenty locations in Paris!

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