Ask Anne: Bags That Mean Business?

Anne Keane, formerly the fashion director at Lucky magazine, is our newest goop contributing editor. You can send questions on everything from how to mix prints to how to up your earring game to [email protected]

Dear Anne, In the summer I carry a canvas bag, which seems to work with everything. Is there a fall equivalent—something that’s easy, polished, and still holds what I need?—Ashley L.

Dear Ashley, It’s true—the canvas bag is great because it’s a casual neutral that goes with everything. I love an “It bag,” but the reality is daily life calls for something a bit more understated that has staying power. See below for some of my favorite decidedly non-statement bags ripe for the seasonal shift. Each is in its own way a neutral and conveys the subliminal message we can all get behind: laid-back chic.

• Marni
  pannier leather
  shoulder bag stylebop, $1659
• WHISTLES
  HAMPSON SHEARLING TOTE Whistles, $499
• 3.1 PHILLIP LIM
  LEIGH TOP-HANDLE SATCHEL goop , $685
• PB 0110
  BUCKET BAG goop, $640
• OAD
  PRISM GRAND SATCHEL TOTE goop, $645
• Want Les Essentiels
  strauss horizontal tote shopbob, $595
• Little Liffner
  d saddle medium handbag goop, $440
• Little Liffner
  TOTE ALL MIGHTY goop, $640
• LOUIS VUITTON
  SC BAG PM Louis Vuitton , $4,550
• Loeffler Randall
  minimal rider goop, $495
• Danse Lente
  lorna mini leather tote NET-A-PORTER, $495
• Ampersand As Apostrophe
  TALL TOTE goop, $536