Ginormous Bags Are The Ultimate Style Status Symbol

I love giant bags. I have since those images of the Olsen twins circa 2010s kept circulating of both of them each carrying comically large bags. Birkins, Balenciaga City Bags, croc-embossed Fendi Top handle bags, all big enough for the tiny fashion icons to comfortably fit in, you'd imagine.

Then it was Succession's Tom Wambsgans "ludicrously capacious bag" comment in season 4, where he names Greg's date's Burberry tote bag as "gargantuan" and "monstrous" and kicked the internet into a flurry of "capacious bag" trend stories. The lore of the giant bag is not new, nor is the trend per-se, but of late, a slew of giant bags has re-emerged on the runway, and it's been making me think more about how much I love a bag so big it looks like it could topple me over.

The thing that got me thinking about giant bags this season though, specifically, is what's been going on in the accessories department at Chanel right now under Matthieu Blazy's careful guidance and love of "monstrous" leather goods. At the house's Cruise 2027 show in Biarritz last month, a raffia beach bag that was half as tall as the model herself came onto the runway, and I thought to myself how fabulous would it be to stand on a train platform in Avignon with my toiletries in that.

The raffia beach sac was undoubtedly the biggest iteration of Blazy's handbags at Chanel, but on the Metiers d'Art runway late last year, there were plenty of supersized tote bags in suede and grained leather, riffing on the classic shopping shapes he has been exploring of late. During his time at Bottega Veneta, Blazy also supersized plenty of the bags—a sensibility that Louise Trotter has continued at the house. For Fall/Winter 2026, a series of oversized intrecciato shoulder bags came down the runway, slung across the body and clutched under elbows.

Over at Acne Studios, it was much of the same. Supersized versions of house signatures, like the cargo style Camero bags that could double as a weekender, which we saw amongst other massive silhouettes for Fall/Winter 2026.

And while Wambsgans may have thought it out of place at Logan Roy's birthday lunch, I'll go ahead and argue that an obnoxiously large bag is the ultimate status symbol (this does not give anyone permission to carry a Birkin 45 to a cocktail event. This is not for you). In the daytime, do away with the mini bags and pile it all in.