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17 Jul 2008

Fashion – Murses & Man-bags?

Author: dragan.filovski | Filed under: bags, fashion, kanye west, lifestyle, lupe fiasco, pharrell williams
Pharrell Williams has a $67,000 purple/pink crocodile
Hermes bag


When men first began carrying bags that were traditionally worn by women people laughed- they laughed loud and they laughed hard, but with some of manliest men and top style gurus strutting . . . I mean walking around with these bags you have to ask yourself- is it really THAT bad? Some people think that the “man-bag” portrays 1 of 2 things: you’re self-absorbed or you like men. I’m thinking that stigma is changing. The list of of men who rock “murses” grows everyday: Pharrell, David Beckham, Lupe Fiasco, Tom Brady, Seal, Kanye West, Ryan Reynolds, and Terrence Howard just to name a few.

David Beckham with a leather brown Prada bag

Terrence Howard with his black patent & leather crocodile

Lupe Fiasco and his red Goyard bag

Seal with a black leather murse

Tom Brady with an army fatigue murse

In his interview with Paper Magazine Pharrell talks about his murse/travel bag:

“Don’t call it a murse,” says PHARRELL, pulling out his second look from the gargantuan purple croc HERMES tote, which he has accessorized with another JACOB key chain, this one covered in yellow diamonds to match the bag’s gold hard-ware.

“It’s not a man purse. It’s my travel bag.”

PHARRELL says style is… “about who you are, where you’re going, what’s comfortable…It’s your attitude that makes it hot.”

“It’s not that I’m necessarily proud of being a nerd,” says PHARRELL. “It’s who I am.”

Pharrell is truly stuntin’ with his 2 Hermes murses, he’s so proud!
I think he’s an advocate for the murses, he’ll probably start a non-profit in support of men carrying bags that look like purses. . .;-)

Personally, I think it’s okay for a man to have a bag like its okay for a woman to wear jeans – I think the bag has to fit the look. It just becomes a little questionable when he carries it like a purse, you know under his arm like Tom Brady or the way Terrence Howard does. Pharrell’s purple color rocksss in my oppinion. . . ! These huge bags are very appropriate for travel and just walking around the streets on a daily basis like below if you feel like. . . (cough cough) Pharrell:

A BIG Thank You to the ultimative Urban Gent Blog!!
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One Response to “Fashion – Murses & Man-bags?”

  1. Jacinda Thomas says: November 17th, 2008 at 20:08

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