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The best thing about a restrained, neutral colour palette for your clothes is that your accessories really pop. The masters of minimalism are well aware of this - why else do you see neon bright bags at Celine or striking shoes at Stella? Everyone knows that if you are wearing black and white - or grey, or brown, or beige - you can go crazy in the accessories department without it being extravagant. That's why the must have accessories for this season are things like tiny little clutch bags in eye-popping colours, bold, in your face cuffs that demand respect and attention, shoes that announce your presence merely by the sound they make across a parquet floor. The thing about accessories, and I'm not just saying because I happen to work with them, is that they are statements above and beyond an outfit. I may not be a bag girl, or a shoes girl, but I am an accesories girl. The whole package of accessories - shoes, bag, belt, gloves, scarf, hat, jewellery - is like a mini outfit in and of itself. It has the same dynamics as picking out separates or matching dress to jacket, there are the same relationships, the same interactions. But better, because these things lift your clothes from merely being what you are wearing, to being what you are living.
What does a red bag say about you? On a chain hanging off your shoulder it says that you have a fire inside you ("you know they have a cream for that", as Carrie would say). It's about glamour and intensity and passion and excitement. So you can be wearing, oh, say, a white button down a simple a-line skirt but lose none of your extravagance when you wear a red bag. Or, it could be a simple zip clutch bag, so strikingly similar to a pencil case (remember these?). Because then it's all about the utility, the ease of use, the simple, simple shape, the fact that it looks like a pencil case.. But that red makes it all different. Red is one of those polarising colours that you either love or hate. No-one is ambivalent about red. Red is the colour of love - and hate. Red is the colour of glamour and excitement but also melancholy (the mean reds) and death. Such a colour, so invigorated as it is by history and culture and society can hardly fail to move someone.
Which is why, if you're planning on buying into this new minimalism that's going around, you should invest in some red accessories. Because, if nothing else, when your Calvin-Klein-esque sheath fails to excite your next date, your red as sin bag might do all the work for you.
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