Beautiful Balmain round coin purse with leather chain strap, inspired by the house’s affinity for precise tailoring.

Beautiful Balmain round coin purse with leather chain strap, inspired by the house’s affinity for precise tailoring. 

Made from cotton blend fabric with a monogram jacquard motif. this compact design is accented with gold-tone hardware.

90% Cotton, 10% Polyester/Calf

Made in Italy 2015

Size purse : 11 cm diameter

Size with strap : 56 cm L

Post-WWII Europe was ripe grounds for fashion designers like Christian Dior, Lucien Lelong, and Nina Ricci. And Pierre Balmain saw his place among these legendary figureheads of style. Hailing from a family of dressmakers, Pierre’s mother took the helm of their boutique after her husband passed away. At the same time, their children were young, and her elaborate outfits served as inspiration for Pierre upon his graduation from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1933. Soon, Balmain was working under Robert Piquet, Givenchy, Dior, and Lelong (where one of his dresses became a bestseller) before establishing his own namesake brand in 1945.

The rebirth of Balmain… and its handbags!

What, or rather, who truly ushered the brand to the present day, however, was Olivier Rousteing.Having arrived at Balmain from Roberto Cavalli at just 25 years of age in 2009, firstly under Decarnin, and later becoming the Creative Director in 2011, Rousteing added another feather to Balmain’s crown – that of becoming the first heritage Parisian house to have a Black lead designer. And his flamboyance, building upon the original reputation of Decarnin, quickly defined a luxury-rock aesthetic for Balmain that took the edginess and S& M-vibe of contemporaries, like Alexander McQueen and Alexander Wang, to an elite audience.