The Ideal Bag

Métier’s Closer is the day-to-night briefcase of your dreams.

WORDS BY T. COLE RACHEL, ILLUSTRATION BY AHONEN & LAMBERG

THE PERFECT BAG does not exist.” This is a lie I frequently tell myself, usually when trying to talk myself out of buying yet another bag, one I’ve somehow deemed perfect. As an admitted bag obsessive — my quest for the perfect leather bag is an odyssey that stretches all the way back to my teens — the desire to buy just one more fine leather good is something I have never been able to shake. Just when I think I’ve finally acquired what will be my forever go-to messenger bag, or my ultimate workaday backpack, along comes something like Métier’s Closer to reignite my obsession. In the case of this bag, however, I might have finally found “the one.”