A great bag should be two things: made of glass, and topped with devil’s horns.
If our culture can’t find a consensus on this yet, we will soon: The glass bag trend has arrived, courtesy of the French brand Coperni. The ready-to-wear company is a favourite of the Hadids, Hailey Bieber, and Rihanna.
Coperni is perhaps best known for its Swipe handbag – a scooped-out extended oval that the designers say is a take on an iPhone’s “swipe to unlock” icon. Seen in another mindset, the bag is the same outline as an oversized deviled egg.
The original Coperni Swipe bag came to prominence over the last year—as Maddy in Euphoria, played by Alexa Demie, wore a mini Coperni Swipe in the infamous “Bitch, you better be joking” scene. During the last few months, an even more viral follow-up has been strategically unleashed: a highly breakable version of the bag, made in collaboration with the Heven, makers of handblown glassware.
Designers Breanna Box and Peter Dupont told i-D that the glassblowing process used an air hose, since the glass was so thick, and that the purse function is the result of a drill and scissors. It’s true that the bag can technically hold one or two small objects. But mostly it functions like jewelry–it is a handheld art piece.