Bambi Harpers Clutch

Plastic hard-shell clutch printed with the December 2010 Harper’s Bazaar Australia cover featuring Bambi Northwood-Blyth.

Category: Curated

File Under: #FashionEphemera, #EarlyInternetEra, #PrintToProduct

Description

Plastic hard-shell clutch wrapped in a high-gloss vinyl print of the Harper’s Bazaar Australia December 2010 cover, featuring Bambi Northwood-Blyth. The interior is lined in black synthetic fabric with minimal signs of use. A PU patent strap secures the snap closure, and a detachable gold-tone chain allows for shoulder carry.

Produced as a mass-market novelty object, the clutch translates editorial fashion imagery directly into consumer accessory form. Its manufacture reflects a period when magazine covers still operated as primary fashion signals, widely reproduced and circulated through secondary products.

The cover image itself comes from a moment when print magazines continued to anoint “next” models through editorial positioning, shortly before that authority fractured across blogs, social platforms, and algorithmic feeds. Objects like this sit within the material residue of that transition—where fashion imagery was no longer protected by medium or hierarchy, but rapidly flattened, copied, and redistributed.

The result is a functional accessory that doubles as documentation: a record of late print-era fashion authority and the conditions under which it began to dissolve.