Choosing your next designer bag is rarely a simple or even pleasant process. Boutiques and specialist websites overflow with styles that sometimes lean on logo power, sometimes on heritage, and sometimes on the promise of being the “it” bag of the moment.

Very few, however, manage to distil a genuine tradition into something both modern and forward-looking – a story built on a clearly defined vocabulary of powerful symbols and meanings of its own.

Vivienne Westwood, with this year’s collection for the 2025/26 season, does exactly that once again. These are bags for those who love glamour, adore irony, and move through the city in a kind of urban survival style, while maintaining an unwavering sense of elegance.

It’s a selection that includes dozens of bags, all ready to enter your wardrobe and stay there for a long time – for years – as part of that timeless fashion language that only true fashion items can sustain.

The Iconic orb

The range of bags featured in the new Vivienne Westwood collection is broad. Just as broad – and just as clear – are the references to historic pieces, both from the maison itself and from women’s fashion more generally, without ever leaving you feeling lost or overwhelmed.

Guiding you through it all is the iconic orb – crowned in the most British way imaginable and encircled by Saturn’s ring, there to remind you to reach further, both in your dreams and in your choice of clothes and accessories. Applied as hardware, embossed into leather, or sketched as a graphic motif.

The orb is the constant that runs through every line, every outfit, every piece in the collection.

A tiny personal planet; a pocket-sized style manifesto; a symbol that fashion insiders consider part of the near-sacred aura this industry has carved out in the collective imagination. It gleams on patent leather, dances across tartan, and settles neatly between soft drapes and sculptural volumes.

Between History and Heritage

The designer bags by Vivienne Westwood – as mentioned above – draw liberally on a fifty-year tradition that has made its presence felt in the fashion world through countless iconic designs.

It would be a mistake to confuse this with complacency. While many historic themes from Vivienne Westwood’s bags and ready-to-wear reappear – leather, tartan, statement hardware and nods to classic London streetwear – every element feels sharply reworked for today.

In other words, none of the pieces in the collection comes across as a tired rehash of decades-old ideas, lazily surfing yet another revival.

On the contrary, few things feel as contemporary as the latest line of designer bags by Vivienne Westwood. Each choice you make adds something almost eternal to your wardrobe: a bag you will carry for years because, like all great fashion items, it continues to set the tone for style long after a season ends.

History and heritage also meet in the remarkable selection of materials: from embossed leathers through to fabrics such as tartan, echoing the iconic visual universe that has made Vivienne Westwood and her creations instantly recognisable to devoted followers of cutting-edge fashion.

Let yourself be captivated: every piece is available on the maison’s website, ready to be delivered straight to your door within a few days – once again blending tradition with innovation in a way that feels distinctly, unmistakably Westwood.