Do you know what fashion handbag styles are hot and on trend this season? Moreover, do you know what styles of handbags never go out of style?

A handbag is, and most likely will forever be women’s ultimate accessory. This is the reason handbags are year, after year the top selling accessory for the fashion industry.

Let’s face it most women feel carrying the right handbag  is the quickest way one  can make a fashion statement. For many women  it’s all about who they are… I have arrived, please take notice… A great designer bag can, and does  screams, “hey look  at me, and who I am carrying on my shoulder…

The expensive designer handbag has become a status object, for not only working career woman, but working mother, wife and single person with a busy social life.  Many women actually not being able to afford such bags, buy them anyway.

I will say, most designer handbags are really great. But not great enough to totally break the budget. Actually if one looks hard enough one can find almost any designer handbag in the form of a knockoff. The knock off costing a small fraction of what the real thing costs. Let’s face it most high end bags are very trendy, and go out of style quickly. So — I ask can you afford to keep up with the fast pace race of keeping up with the cost of these trendy handbag?

If you really want to treat yourself to a designer handbag, shop wisely. Choose a handbag that has proved to be a classic. Just to give one example, Prada’s Lunch tote. Its been around for some 20 years, and still remains in Prada’s line yearly.  Now, I will tell you the lunch tote is widely copied, so you may want to consider buying the knockoff? It all depends on your taste.