The chicest hamper in the world

The Chanel hamper may be sitting in my virtual fashion bin but it's not been forgotten. Oh no. Armchair research tells me that the wicker basket with the double C logo is actually a pétanque bag, on sale for one thousand seven hundred and seventy English pounds. Here it is in the latest issue of Vogue with a very helpful fashion sum:


One Chanel pétanque bag - the boules = the chicest picnic hamper in the world.

I'm sorry, even if it were handcrafted by fairies and contained the Kaiser's own boules, I still wouldn't pay nearly two grand for it, not when you can buy this luxury willow picnic hamper with oiled leather straps - and all its contents - for a mere £99 from John Lewis:



Do the fashion math and make that £1671 - the chicest saving in the world!


What do you think Karl Lagerfeld should do with his boules?

Fashion bin

That's Not My Age was strolling past the Chanel shop on Sloane Street today, oh yes I do sometimes venture into the posh part of town, when a small hamper with the double C logo grabbed me by the throat. I stared in wonderment at this object for ooh five minutes, came to my senses and then took out my camera phone. Is this hamper for real? More to the point, is it for sale? How much does it cost? And who apart from Lily Allen would want it?

Subsequent research tells me that the rustic look was big on the straw-strewn Chanel spring catwalk, which was all fun and frolics...a good old roll in the hay! But That's Not My Age thinks this a case of the Kaiser's New Clothes. And so, the Chanel hamper has to go.

What do you think?