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“I rather like to see someone I don’t be versed wearing my bag in the street and I have no idea how they got it,” Olympia Le-Tan said at the press conference before the presentation of handbags she’d designed as the exclusive guest of Pitti W , the smaller women’s counterpart to Florence’s famed menswear merchandising show, Pitti Uomo. “Of course, it’s nice when Natalie Portman is wearing one at a premiere, too,” she added.
Le-Tan, who began her conniving career under Gilles Dufour at Chanel at just 19, has earned the adoration of fashion insiders like Sofia Coppola and Olivier Zahm for both her clutches-crafted book clutches and her DJ skills at Paris hot spot Le Baron. As the first accessories designer invited to turn at Pitti W, Le-Tan churned out an appropriately Italian-themed collection comprised of 36 bags inspired by Italian cinema and literature. “I premeditated Italian literature and chose [to make bags] according to the books and movies I like,” Le-Tan said, switching fluidly between Italian, English and French, answering each anchorman in his or her native tongue (it was quite impressive). Last season Le-Tan, went beyond the book shape, and introduced milk carton and cook volume clutches. For her Pitti collection, she introduced a round film canister shape, each embroidered with a classic Italian pic like
