Cardi B Knows the Only Thing Better Than a Micro Bag Is a Bag Bigger Than Your Body

There was a time towards the late 2010s when designers collectively refused to produce handbags bigger than the size of their palms. Simon Jacquemus was selling built to accommodate just a couple of credit cards, while Lizzo was posing on red carpets with a Valentino Garavani bag spacious enough to hold one singular tablet of chewing gum. In time, an over-saturation of “me and my patience” memes and fast-fashion knock-offs led to the Thumbelina bag’s inevitable mainstreaming, and fashion’s pendulum therefore began to swing in the opposite direction: towards “ludicrously capacious” alternatives.

, , and . The status-signaling, in-your-face power bag is, it would seem, back. See also: , who was yesterday afternoon photographed strolling through Disneyland Paris with a metallic Chanel handbag so large that it dominated at least a third of her 5ft1” frame.

(Cardi B is one of fashion’s most successful comedians.) The musician wore that with a chiffon Dolce & Gabbana dress, Tabi ballet flats and a blunt-banged wig. She looked like PinkPantheress–who is never without her own second-hand handbags–in about 10 years’s time.

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