Voque Today: The supple metallic lining amid all that poor taste

I have had a serious addiction for a while now. A magpie tendency, I guess. Drawn to all things metallic; glinting silver, gleaming bright. Metallics in fashion though can regularly equal disaster, or even worse, a slave to fashion, but that is all but the metallic handbag.

To love or loathe, the Metallic Bag

This weekend, whilst on a trip away, I purchased yet another lustrous, metallic bag. A clutch, of course, why, what else this season! It was cheap and probably will only last a few months before I banish it to the nest of burnt - out bags, but still I was pleased. Unfortunately, metallic handbags, are one of those items destined to be hideous, and indeed they often are. High street chains produce tacky metallic handbag after tacky metallic handbag, in between the production of tacky metallic braid belts, that is. For the crimes against handbags, that these stores commit, all metallic handbags have been burdened with a bad name.

With metallic bags as fabulous as this Chloe Paddington, how can they all be tacky?

In my possession, I have the most beautiful and may I sat useful, large metallic shoulder bag. Supple, silver leather, so soft it could have been mistaken for suede, a drawstring tassel complete with this seasons handbag - must - fringing with the rich addition of a royal - blue, satin interior. The moment I saw this bag I had to have it. And I did, after all I couldn't leave this ethereal Nine West bag, that was on sale, behind. For all the hideous metallic bags you see out there, think of this one, for it's the supple silver lining amid all those tacky clouds.

In the world of high fashion, the king of the metallic bag is Marc Jacobs. He obviously shares a common magpie tendency with me! Whilst browsing on Net-a-Porter, I spotted this Anya Hindmarch hobo, that is so tacky and in-your-face glam, that it is almost irresistible. Is it possible that this luminous calamity is so bad it's good?