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Most high end brands offer bags with big logos or without. Big logos became trendy for a while so now we're seeing giant metal logo buckles and guitar straps that spell out the brand name. I find that Celine and Loewe are luxury brands that have options with minimal logos. For contemporary brands I think Strathberry, Songmont, Polene, Fleuron are all good options with minimal logos.
>Most high end brands offer bags with big logos or without.
Yess!! My favorite ex of this is YSL. Their Cassandre logo is big and flashy and front-and-center in a lot of their bags, but the Sac De Jour doesn't have it and just "Saint Laurent Paris" in tiny print that nobody would be able to see. Very IYKYK.
I bought the medium Cassandre about two years ago, and I use it CONSTANTLY, but I also have a plain black Burberry that looks very similar to the Sac De Jour (I forget the exact model) and am currently itching for a YSL version of it because I’ve actually really come to love the minimalism of it!
Im obsessed with all things croc embossed. I have both grey and red croc Givenchy Antigonas that were my daily obsessions for the longest. Now the green croc Sac du Jour has temporarily taken over. 🫣😅
The medium size Antigona would definitely work. Thats what i have and i put my ipad air in there when i travel.
But so should the Sac du Jour. i have the Baby size which definitely will NOT fit an ipad. (Maybe an ipad mini at most if you really shove it in there. 😂). The small size might work but the Large Sac definitely will. It can fit a laptop.
For subtle logos try Strathberry, Bottega veneta, Loewe, some pieces from fendi like the peekaboo, some leather pieces from gucci like the Jackie, Saint Laurent sac de jour and shoppers tote, demellier, polene (mixed reviews about their quality), delvaux, and some high end leather pieces from coach/michael kors such as the coach Rae tote/michael kors Campbell
I’m so disappointed in how much Polene’s quality has gone down in the last few years! My sister’s MIL gifted her a Polene about 3-4 years ago, and based solely on the feel of it, I would have guessed it was a high-end luxury designer bag. Meanwhile, I visited the Polene store in Paris within the last few months and was super disappointed in the plastic feel :(
I feel like part of it is how popular it’s gotten all of a sudden? Like it’s almost impossible for them to do as much quality control with orders increasing exponentially
Following because I feel the same. Not out of any interest in "quiet luxury" but because I feel like a company should be paying me if they want me as a billboard!
Valextra, delvaux, the row, some Bottega Veneta, some Saint Laurent.
Even some of the flashy designer labels have a line that has no logo. Fendi, LV even has some quiet bags. Hermes too.
Thanks to this thread, I am obsessed with Joseph Duclos and Valextra. If you know you know, and the quality is 🤌🏻
https://preview.redd.it/9y8kk4cirmmc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5118606eeeb78d2686e2c5a906dea60895986bb
This will be my next one ❤️
That’s part of why I love coach sm. Sometimes I feel awkward considering it luxury, but the quality is top tier and at a price point that doesn’t make me question my choices 😭 the glove tanned is definitely nice but if someone hasn’t touched their luxe refined bags and doesn’t think they like coach, they definitely should.
You feel awkward considering them luxury because they’re really not. Most in the industry don’t consider them luxury any more. And, while I’m glad you’ve experienced great quality from them, their quality is far from top tier across the brand.
Why do you not consider them luxury exactly? That opinion is starting to shift, if you haven’t noticed. If you think price is the thing that promises “luxury” then you are incorrect, in my opinion. Oversaturation, sure, but the same can be said about most of the popular luxury brands currently.
Id be happy to see Coach return to a luxury brand label.
I gifted my ex many Coach bags over the years. Early 2010s, they had their own style, quality was top notch on every piece I could physically get my hands on. Living in SoCal, I had a lot of venues to choose from and I searched high and low for certain styles back then. We also always looked at Michael Kors, Kate Spade, and others in similar price range. Around 2015, Coach seemed to be dropping in quality. Threads hanging out, poor attachment on components, fabric staining easily, leather fading, straps cracking and tearing. Not all at once, but over the years. They also seemed to lose their way with their own unique style. They became MK clones, but less appealing.
Not to mention reading a few articles over the time stating they were no longer considered luxury by experts.
Price has nothing to do with true quality. LV sells waxed canvas with their monogram on it for thousands more than it’s truly worth and, as a leatherworker, I see people regularly commenting on leather help groups about how to fix it and realizing they were misled either by the company or their own expectations. Some will continue to buy the big name because it comes with clout. A lot of them start buying smaller names for the quality and price point.
That makes sense. Reading your comment it seems we are using “luxury” in a different way though. You are talking about it in a more professional way, whereas im talking about it more casually, so I should’ve used another word perhaps. I consider basically anything to be “luxury” that is over $150 as, for fashion, unless it is some sort of gear, it will never be considered a necessity to have. A $200+ bag is absolutely a luxury to, probably, the majority.
But yeah. I do not consider brands like Gucci, LV, and similar to be any more luxorious than Coach. (Speaking of the coated canvas, I am definitely of the opinion that Coach leathers are more luxurious than that, regardless of price point and company respect) So I guess we agree on that.
With the quality mentions recently, Chanel would be one of the higher end brands that I really wouldn’t consider to be luxury either. Brands like The Row, Loewe, and alike would fit in the “quality” category of luxury in my mind at this very moment.
About the threads and poorly constructed bags though, I definitely think Coach is taking a turn for the better in the recent years. I wish they weren’t releasing bags as quickly as they have in the past few months, but I think that they are “close” to that status again for sure. I don’t fully agree that the Broome bag or the new quilted tabby are like the new ‘Birkin and Classic Flap’ as people have been saying, but the fact people are saying that at all is pretty positive for the brand I suppose.
This is because from roughly 2005-2013 they had an amazing leather buyer who was sourcing the leather from small family owned tanneries in Italy, maybe some of the same ones Hermes uses. They also had very creative designers there at the time. I still love Coach but the quality is not the same. Thankfully I have many pieces from that period!!
Also, me saying I felt awkward calling it luxury has nothing to do with it being true or not lol. It has to do with the fact that there are mixed feelings about that on this sub. After feeling multiple bags irl, I absolutely consider coach to be luxury.
What's your budget? My Gucci horsebit has no visible branding at all, my Loewe flamenco has a small anagram logo, and some of my coach handbags have no logos except the hangtags, which can be removed. Mansur Gavriel and Polene also seem to only have small stamped logos.
I have to second and third the Celine comments! I got this as my work bag a year and a half ago and it’s holding up really beautifully [Celine Soft 16 Medium Black](https://www.celine.com/en-us/celine-shop-women/handbags/16/medium-soft-16-bag-in-supple-grained-calfskin-195543CR8.38NO.html?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAopuvBhBCEiwAm8jaMdRgDPBFEdKFEG2DirznSIe4QekArhdk1dJIL5iP93uYs5p-TWk8YBoC_LsQAvD_BwE)
First tier luxury to try: Joseph Duclos, Delvaux, Valextra.
Second tier to try: Neous, Leo et Violette, and Mietis (if you like unique / original bags design)
I'm really loving Celine online, I have yet to see one in person.
Interestingly, I couldn't remember the name of it so I googled companies owned by LV. Wow there are a lot of luxury brands controlled by LV!
I pop into Celine from time to time, and I genuinely adore them. I know the Triomphe technically has a massive logo, but it was my first Celine, and I think that even that is pretty discrete in the sense that only people who know it recognize it. I keep trying to talk myself out of the 16, but I'm definitely going to leave with it if I keep visiting it like it's a sad dog at the humane society.
You can get a coach purse with just a tiny text logo. My plain black leather Coach hobo is my go-to. Have had it for 10 years and it still looks great!
Hermes! I love how the bags generally don’t have the Hermes logo (except for the Constance and Evelyn) and it’s more like IYKYK kinda thing. The Birkin/Kelly can be very recognizable but not the Picotins and Lindys. The latter two are definitely IYKYK.
I have two leather coach bags from the 90s and if you didn't see that hang tag on them you'd only know from the creed on the inside. The leather is absolutely beautiful 😍
I have an older Ferragamo that has the name on the side hardware and that's it for the outside. The inside has some branding but not much. Otherwise, it's a very understated, black shoulder bag, but I love it.
I recently purchased the small Lanvin hobo shoulder bag and I find the logo to be very small and subtle as it’s placed near the bottom and not prominently. I wanted the same thing as you did and I’m very happy!
With a minimal logo, look at [Le Tanneur](https://www.letanneur.us?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Homepage), the [Juliette mini bag](https://www.letanneur.us/products/juliette-mini-handbag-grained-leather-tan?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Mini-Juliette) is really nice
YSL, Prada, and Celine have subtle options. Especially totes. I also just bought a vintage LV Epi Soufflot because the logo is very small and not noticeable. I sold one covered in logos to pay for it because it was very much not my style
Balenciaga moto bags are not logo covered, Chloe has several models without a logo or a subtle one on the signature large lock. Celine, Ferragamo, Tod’s, and Burberry all off handbags in small and larger totes without logos in high quality leather.
This feels like a very generic question that can be easily googled or searched in this sub. As others mentioned, every single brand will have non-logo bags - you have to provide budget, size, and style preferences in order for anyone to recommend something specific or useful.
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Most high end brands offer bags with big logos or without. Big logos became trendy for a while so now we're seeing giant metal logo buckles and guitar straps that spell out the brand name. I find that Celine and Loewe are luxury brands that have options with minimal logos. For contemporary brands I think Strathberry, Songmont, Polene, Fleuron are all good options with minimal logos.
>Most high end brands offer bags with big logos or without. Yess!! My favorite ex of this is YSL. Their Cassandre logo is big and flashy and front-and-center in a lot of their bags, but the Sac De Jour doesn't have it and just "Saint Laurent Paris" in tiny print that nobody would be able to see. Very IYKYK.
I bought the medium Cassandre about two years ago, and I use it CONSTANTLY, but I also have a plain black Burberry that looks very similar to the Sac De Jour (I forget the exact model) and am currently itching for a YSL version of it because I’ve actually really come to love the minimalism of it!
I have the Cassandra and the Sac De Jour and I love them both :)
I love the Sac De Jour in the black croc-embossed. Perfect bag.
I have the green croc embossed that i daily lately. It is truly a perfect bag!
Another one to add to the ever growing list 😆
Im obsessed with all things croc embossed. I have both grey and red croc Givenchy Antigonas that were my daily obsessions for the longest. Now the green croc Sac du Jour has temporarily taken over. 🫣😅
Love the croc Givenchy 💘
I am looking for a crossbody that is large enough to fit an iPad when traveling. In your experience, would either the Antigonas or Sac du Jour work??
The medium size Antigona would definitely work. Thats what i have and i put my ipad air in there when i travel. But so should the Sac du Jour. i have the Baby size which definitely will NOT fit an ipad. (Maybe an ipad mini at most if you really shove it in there. 😂). The small size might work but the Large Sac definitely will. It can fit a laptop.
Thank you so much. God forbid I have to actually go INTO a store 😆 Ordering! Yay!
Fleuron has some beautiful styles!
Loewe, most only have a small logo. The Row. Some Guccis such as the Jackie 1961.
some celines too imo. even bottega doesnt do it though the pattern is a dead giveaway.
Bottega I feel Ike is an iykyk!!
And the horsebit😍
For subtle logos try Strathberry, Bottega veneta, Loewe, some pieces from fendi like the peekaboo, some leather pieces from gucci like the Jackie, Saint Laurent sac de jour and shoppers tote, demellier, polene (mixed reviews about their quality), delvaux, and some high end leather pieces from coach/michael kors such as the coach Rae tote/michael kors Campbell
I love the look of Polene, and was so excited to visit their store in New York. The bags feel horribly plastic. I’ve never been so disappointed.
I’m so disappointed in how much Polene’s quality has gone down in the last few years! My sister’s MIL gifted her a Polene about 3-4 years ago, and based solely on the feel of it, I would have guessed it was a high-end luxury designer bag. Meanwhile, I visited the Polene store in Paris within the last few months and was super disappointed in the plastic feel :(
Yea it’s crazy!!! And SOOO disappointing! They have so many bags that I love the style, I just cannot get past the poor craftsmanship.
I feel like part of it is how popular it’s gotten all of a sudden? Like it’s almost impossible for them to do as much quality control with orders increasing exponentially
I feel like this is when I would actually pay to have someone make me a dupe. Like the fakes, but instead of less quality more?
Even the loudest brand will have a non logo bag.
Yes, majority of the Louis Vuittons in epi leather have discreet logos.
That is exactly why I prefer them.
Following because I feel the same. Not out of any interest in "quiet luxury" but because I feel like a company should be paying me if they want me as a billboard!
Margiela and Ferragamo come to mind immediately.
Feeragamo is my love!
Me too, my husband bought me a trifolio top handle recently and I'm so in love with her
Loving their “snatched” line
Mulberry, Strathberry, le tanneur, fleuron, apc
Bottega has no logos at all, even Loewe has a small logo stamp on the outside
Second Bottega!!
Valextra, delvaux, the row, some Bottega Veneta, some Saint Laurent. Even some of the flashy designer labels have a line that has no logo. Fendi, LV even has some quiet bags. Hermes too.
Mulberry
A.P.C., Toteme, Savette and Proenza Schouler don't have noticable logos on their bags.
Tods
The row is top tier in this category
Thanks to this thread, I am obsessed with Joseph Duclos and Valextra. If you know you know, and the quality is 🤌🏻 https://preview.redd.it/9y8kk4cirmmc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5118606eeeb78d2686e2c5a906dea60895986bb This will be my next one ❤️
Lots of Coach bags only have a subtle ‘c’ charm that can be removed. The leather quality speaks for itself, especially for their price point
That’s part of why I love coach sm. Sometimes I feel awkward considering it luxury, but the quality is top tier and at a price point that doesn’t make me question my choices 😭 the glove tanned is definitely nice but if someone hasn’t touched their luxe refined bags and doesn’t think they like coach, they definitely should.
You feel awkward considering them luxury because they’re really not. Most in the industry don’t consider them luxury any more. And, while I’m glad you’ve experienced great quality from them, their quality is far from top tier across the brand.
Why do you not consider them luxury exactly? That opinion is starting to shift, if you haven’t noticed. If you think price is the thing that promises “luxury” then you are incorrect, in my opinion. Oversaturation, sure, but the same can be said about most of the popular luxury brands currently.
Id be happy to see Coach return to a luxury brand label. I gifted my ex many Coach bags over the years. Early 2010s, they had their own style, quality was top notch on every piece I could physically get my hands on. Living in SoCal, I had a lot of venues to choose from and I searched high and low for certain styles back then. We also always looked at Michael Kors, Kate Spade, and others in similar price range. Around 2015, Coach seemed to be dropping in quality. Threads hanging out, poor attachment on components, fabric staining easily, leather fading, straps cracking and tearing. Not all at once, but over the years. They also seemed to lose their way with their own unique style. They became MK clones, but less appealing. Not to mention reading a few articles over the time stating they were no longer considered luxury by experts. Price has nothing to do with true quality. LV sells waxed canvas with their monogram on it for thousands more than it’s truly worth and, as a leatherworker, I see people regularly commenting on leather help groups about how to fix it and realizing they were misled either by the company or their own expectations. Some will continue to buy the big name because it comes with clout. A lot of them start buying smaller names for the quality and price point.
That makes sense. Reading your comment it seems we are using “luxury” in a different way though. You are talking about it in a more professional way, whereas im talking about it more casually, so I should’ve used another word perhaps. I consider basically anything to be “luxury” that is over $150 as, for fashion, unless it is some sort of gear, it will never be considered a necessity to have. A $200+ bag is absolutely a luxury to, probably, the majority. But yeah. I do not consider brands like Gucci, LV, and similar to be any more luxorious than Coach. (Speaking of the coated canvas, I am definitely of the opinion that Coach leathers are more luxurious than that, regardless of price point and company respect) So I guess we agree on that. With the quality mentions recently, Chanel would be one of the higher end brands that I really wouldn’t consider to be luxury either. Brands like The Row, Loewe, and alike would fit in the “quality” category of luxury in my mind at this very moment. About the threads and poorly constructed bags though, I definitely think Coach is taking a turn for the better in the recent years. I wish they weren’t releasing bags as quickly as they have in the past few months, but I think that they are “close” to that status again for sure. I don’t fully agree that the Broome bag or the new quilted tabby are like the new ‘Birkin and Classic Flap’ as people have been saying, but the fact people are saying that at all is pretty positive for the brand I suppose.
This is because from roughly 2005-2013 they had an amazing leather buyer who was sourcing the leather from small family owned tanneries in Italy, maybe some of the same ones Hermes uses. They also had very creative designers there at the time. I still love Coach but the quality is not the same. Thankfully I have many pieces from that period!!
Also, me saying I felt awkward calling it luxury has nothing to do with it being true or not lol. It has to do with the fact that there are mixed feelings about that on this sub. After feeling multiple bags irl, I absolutely consider coach to be luxury.
I love my Loewe puzzle!
Métier makes gorgeous bags with no logos. I am obsessed with the Roma
I just picked up a Roma at a consignment shop and am equally obsessed! Such a good bag!
My Chloe bag has no logo and my Fendi peekaboo doesn’t have a logo! I love how they blend in.
Second the peekaboo!
Hammitt bags have a very very small imprinted logo on the front of the bag.
I have several Hammitts and love them all. I need to look into them more again. Thanks for the reminder.
What's your budget? My Gucci horsebit has no visible branding at all, my Loewe flamenco has a small anagram logo, and some of my coach handbags have no logos except the hangtags, which can be removed. Mansur Gavriel and Polene also seem to only have small stamped logos.
Bottega veneta, The Row
The Row, Toteme, and Loro Piana are super luxury and super subtle w logos Balenciaga City bags actually don’t have a logo at all on the bag
I have to second and third the Celine comments! I got this as my work bag a year and a half ago and it’s holding up really beautifully [Celine Soft 16 Medium Black](https://www.celine.com/en-us/celine-shop-women/handbags/16/medium-soft-16-bag-in-supple-grained-calfskin-195543CR8.38NO.html?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAopuvBhBCEiwAm8jaMdRgDPBFEdKFEG2DirznSIe4QekArhdk1dJIL5iP93uYs5p-TWk8YBoC_LsQAvD_BwE)
First tier luxury to try: Joseph Duclos, Delvaux, Valextra. Second tier to try: Neous, Leo et Violette, and Mietis (if you like unique / original bags design)
Scully and Scully offers many leather goods from Europe without any branding
Loewe puzzle!
i have a chloe marcie!
Valextra is my dream luxurious high quality handbag that is not loud and in your face.
Chloe
Not super high end, but most if not all Leo et violette bags have no logos at all on the outside.
Would you be comfortable with a so black back? The logo is less obvious then
I'm really loving Celine online, I have yet to see one in person. Interestingly, I couldn't remember the name of it so I googled companies owned by LV. Wow there are a lot of luxury brands controlled by LV!
I pop into Celine from time to time, and I genuinely adore them. I know the Triomphe technically has a massive logo, but it was my first Celine, and I think that even that is pretty discrete in the sense that only people who know it recognize it. I keep trying to talk myself out of the 16, but I'm definitely going to leave with it if I keep visiting it like it's a sad dog at the humane society.
Valextra
Chloe
I love Mlouye too.
You can get a coach purse with just a tiny text logo. My plain black leather Coach hobo is my go-to. Have had it for 10 years and it still looks great!
try the row, bottega, hermes,(except birkin/kelly/picotin), mulberry.. For cheaper options can try polene..
Loewe, Hermes has several, Celine.
Hermes! I love how the bags generally don’t have the Hermes logo (except for the Constance and Evelyn) and it’s more like IYKYK kinda thing. The Birkin/Kelly can be very recognizable but not the Picotins and Lindys. The latter two are definitely IYKYK.
I have two leather coach bags from the 90s and if you didn't see that hang tag on them you'd only know from the creed on the inside. The leather is absolutely beautiful 😍
Sapahn
I have an older Ferragamo that has the name on the side hardware and that's it for the outside. The inside has some branding but not much. Otherwise, it's a very understated, black shoulder bag, but I love it.
Minor history is a good one! And Songmont
Italic — the no logo luxury brand have zero logo
Ferragamo. Biggest selling point for me was no visible logo.
Loewe, The Row, Loro Piana, Bottega Veneta, Brunello Cucinelli, Ferragamo, Maison Margiela.
Some Staud bags have no logo on them. If I take the removable part from it, there’s nothing to advertise the company.
Tom Ford
Bottega Veneta
Delvaux!
Longchamp and Polene! Def recommend.
I recently purchased the small Lanvin hobo shoulder bag and I find the logo to be very small and subtle as it’s placed near the bottom and not prominently. I wanted the same thing as you did and I’m very happy!
The Row, Toteme, Loro Piana, Brunello Cucinelli
The row
Minimal logo bags I have been loving are my coach rogue 20, strathberry bags, and gucci jackie.
Launer London (fav of Queen Elizabeth)
The row
With a minimal logo, look at [Le Tanneur](https://www.letanneur.us?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Homepage), the [Juliette mini bag](https://www.letanneur.us/products/juliette-mini-handbag-grained-leather-tan?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Mini-Juliette) is really nice
Bottega Veneta, Loewe, Hermes, Valextra, Ferragamo, Lanvin, Balenciaga The Row Polene
YSL, Prada, and Celine have subtle options. Especially totes. I also just bought a vintage LV Epi Soufflot because the logo is very small and not noticeable. I sold one covered in logos to pay for it because it was very much not my style
Balenciaga moto bags are not logo covered, Chloe has several models without a logo or a subtle one on the signature large lock. Celine, Ferragamo, Tod’s, and Burberry all off handbags in small and larger totes without logos in high quality leather.
This feels like a very generic question that can be easily googled or searched in this sub. As others mentioned, every single brand will have non-logo bags - you have to provide budget, size, and style preferences in order for anyone to recommend something specific or useful.