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"I got to chat with Zac Posen last week, and as I expected, our convo hit all kinds of fascinating notes. He routinely creates absolutely breathtaking gowns (and I can&amp;#39;t wait to see what he unveils shortly for spring 2015!) and I&amp;#39;ve gotta admit: I think he&amp;#39;s somewhat of a genius. We started chatting about bags that work from day to night, and then we got into so much more.\nOn day bags for evening:\n&amp;quot;I think the rules of evening have totally been broken down, but you have to be careful of the scale of the bag, that it&amp;#39;s not too big. If you can fit a binder in it, it&amp;#39;s not going to dinner or the first date. You don&amp;#39;t want to look like you&amp;#39;re schlepping your laptop and lunch to a cocktail party. Weight is key for evening too. There&amp;#39;s nothing worse than seeing a person looking like they&amp;#39;re climbing Mt. Everest.\n&amp;quot;A day bag that has movement like fringe works well for day to evening. For day, it spices it up and adds a sort of playful toughness and an edge. To evening it adds a decorative element and movement. Bags that have cross-body chains are really good too, [especially] if you&amp;#39;re wearing suiting or a clean strapless dress.&amp;quot;\nOn why he&amp;#39;s stumping for more bag diversity:\n&amp;quot;When you make your way through Midtown at lunchtime, you have to make your way through a sea of C\u00E9line, and those are big clunkers. I love those bags, but lemmings are my pet peeves with accessories. Bags should be an individual expression, and by wearing one en masse, it doesn&amp;#39;t say very much about the person wearing it. I wish there was more diversity.\n&amp;quot;When Fendi had the Baguette it was the same style, but there was a place for people to really individually chose their embellishments or textures, and I thought that was a really interesting statement. I like when people personalize.&amp;quot;\nOn why repeating outfits is the epitome of style:\n&amp;quot;To me there&amp;#39;s nothing chicer than a woman who re-wears something. When a client buys a gown of ours and I see her at multiple events in the same dress, as much as I&amp;#39;d like them to be buying a different gown or dress for each thing, there&amp;#39;s something very refreshing and elegant about that.&amp;quot;\nOn why you should never write off an old It item:&amp;#39;\n&amp;quot;Women have the opportunity to go and search in the real depths of their closets and storage and pull out keepsakes from 15 years ago. I recently saw someone with the [Yves Saint Laurent] Mombasa bag on the street, and all of a sudden it felt refreshing again. Something that was a classic or an It bag and goes out of popular vernacular and comes back can be so refreshing.&amp;quot;\nPinterestFacebookZac Zac Posen Claudette Hobo, $495, shopbop.com\nWhat&amp;#39;s your bag game like? Do you have one bag you always pull out for evening? Have you fallen prey to the allure of an It bag before?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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