Welcome to this week’s round-up of fashion and lifestyle – and the end of August. Boo hiss. That seemed like the quickest summer ever!
Now, I know very few people will admit to this, but whose guilty pleasure is the middle aisle at Lidl?
But nobody would put “designer fashion handbag” and Lidl in the same sentence, right? Well – you’re wrong.
Lidl have just collaborated with the high-end Handbag designer Nik Bentel and created ‘Lidl’s £50 croissant bag’. It’s on sale from TODAY and all proceeds donated to children’s charity the NSPCC.
But is it the height of chic or just flaky fashion?
The purse takes the form of a roll-top bakery bag – and comes with a croissant-shaped wallet inside. Nik Bentel, who believes ‘design should take the mundane and make it memorable’, is known for his collection of ‘Pasta Bags’ – which imitate boxes of spaghetti, penne and farfalle. Given that (the croissant) is based on a classic symbol of France, its creator must have assumed that the end result could only be fashionable.
This is not the first time the supermarket has crossed into the world of fashion. Lidl launched its first collection of clothes in 2021, including T-shirts emblazoned with the company’s blue and yellow logo.
Joanna Gomer, marketing director at Lidl, said she hoped Mr Bentel’s creation would ‘take the world of luxury fashion by storm’.
Would I…? In a word, no.
Onto this issue of Zips It Up, and we check out the collab between Fearn Cotton and Nobodys Child, Primark and Beetlejuice plus the true science behind which shirts go with which sneakers.
Enjoy.
