We're adding these bucket bags to our summer style list

Coat, £2,350; Bucket Maillon Triomphe bag, £1,800; Celine by Hedi Slimane. Photography: Tex Bishop. Fashion: Aylin Bayhan. Mode: Alzbeta Czerna at Wild Management. Hair: Liam Russell . Make up: Anna Inglis Hall . Casting Director: David Steven Wilton

(Image credit: Tex Bishop)

By Jack Moss

last updated 4 September 2022

in Features

You may have had an array of exciting activities doodled on your 2020 bucket list, most of which will now remained unticked. But in lieu of a list, may we present the benefits of a bucket bag to you instead. The shape of this wardrobe staple was a stalwart on the S/S 2020 catwalks – presented as a grown up, elegant option, somewhere between spring’s most miniature and XL styles. The benefit of the bucket bag lies in its voluminous shape, which allows you to practically carry all your essentials for modern life over your shoulder, including your hand sanitiser.

We’ve looked to Loewe, Celine, Prada and Chanel for practical options in natural tones, that reflect our desire for timeless dressing. Loewe’s Balloon bag is a new addition to the Madrid label’s covetable accessories arsenal, featuring a smooth drawstring closure, and an alluringly inflated shape. Also weaving magic is Prada’s Tress bag, which features a bucket silhouette laced from soft leather. At Celine and Chanel, metal hardware brings a vintage-inspired touch to this hands-free style, suitable for those in search of chic, Left Bank-inspired dressing. Bucket list? With these covetable accessory options, you'll forget you ever had one.

Loewe bucket back carried by model — Coat, £2,250; shoes, £625; Small Balloon bag, £2,100, Loewe

Chanel bucket bag carried by model — Shirt, POA; trousers, POA; bag, £3,595, Chanel

Prada bucket bag carried by model — Shirt, £640; skirt, £2,180; shoes, £795; Tress Bucket bag, £1,760, Prada

Jack Moss is the Fashion Features Editor at Wallpaper*, joining the team in 2022. Having previously been the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 and 10 Men magazines, he has also contributed to titles including i-D, Dazed, 10 Magazine, Mr Porter’s The Journal and more, while also featuring in Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers, published by Rizzoli. He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks. Across his career, he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures, including Rick Owens, Pieter Mulier, Jonathan Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner, Christian Lacroix, Kate Moss and Manolo Blahnik.

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