FAGUETTE twists one of fashion’s most recognizable handbag silhouettes into something vulgar, humorous, and strangely glamorous.
Built from a modified faux fur baguette bag and altered with sprayed typography, the work plays with the language of luxury, identity, performance, and stereotype. Equal parts fashion object and insult, the piece embraces the absurdity of branding and the emotional theatrics attached to status accessories.
By corrupting a culturally iconic silhouette with crude intervention, FAGUETTE transforms the handbag into something closer to a character than an accessory — collapsing camp, fashion culture, parody, and desire into a single object.
Part of The Collecteur’s ongoing exploration of manipulated fashion iconography, the work reframes the luxury handbag as both artifact and punchline.
One-of-one sculptural handbag
Modified faux fur baguette bag with sprayed typography
Mixed media construction
Approximate dimensions: 11 × 4 × 7 in
Pedestal not included
FAGUETTE twists one of fashion’s most recognizable handbag silhouettes into something vulgar, humorous, and strangely glamorous.
Built from a modified faux fur baguette bag and altered with sprayed typography, the work plays with the language of luxury, identity, performance, and stereotype. Equal parts fashion object and insult, the piece embraces the absurdity of branding and the emotional theatrics attached to status accessories.
By corrupting a culturally iconic silhouette with crude intervention, FAGUETTE transforms the handbag into something closer to a character than an accessory — collapsing camp, fashion culture, parody, and desire into a single object.
Part of The Collecteur’s ongoing exploration of manipulated fashion iconography, the work reframes the luxury handbag as both artifact and punchline.
One-of-one sculptural handbag
Modified faux fur baguette bag with sprayed typography
Mixed media construction
Approximate dimensions: 11 × 4 × 7 in
Pedestal not included