Kikidoll admits to her tote bag fetish.  She just can’t get enough of them.

Forget clutches and lady-like hand bag clobber, Kikidoll collects, piles, then lugs those totes around like they were extensions of her arm!

Canvas, leather, nylon, spandex–heck, she even has a faux-fur baby for that once a year mountain-trek when she can tear herself off the beach to go skiing.

Her all-time fave is of course the classic Hermes Birkin, in palest blue-jean baby blue leather. Loaded with a cashmere wrap, a bean-bag travel pillow, scented room spray–pikake of course–for those pesky airline-seat smells, it stands always at the ready for an unplanned travel adventure.

Just throw in documents, tickets and a clear zippie with 100 ml. toiletries, and she’s good to go.  Pricey but it lasts a lifetime, the Birkin can’t be topped for style, wearability, timeless design and spaciousness. Take a look at Posh–she ‘wears’ one in every available hue of the French house’s rainbow of leathers and skins.

For everyday errands, as opposed to trans-Pacific jaunts, and at a considerably reduced price than the Birkin, Kikidoll grabs for her much-loved and abused Anya Hindmarch £5 shopper ‘I’m Not a Plastic Bag’.

Cream canvas piped in brown with sturdy jute handles, this one has been through the wash more than her car! Sold as an eco-friendly joint-venture with the charitable folks at We are What We Do, its original intent was to encourage shoppers to go ‘green’ and to forego using plastic bags at the grocers, and pop the weekly shop in Anya’s canvas tote.  So popular were these bags when launched that customers actually slept outside on the pavements in a queue to the door of her flagship shop in London to try and ‘bag’ one.  Needless to say they were sold out in less than an half hour. Later released in other cities (Tokyo, where Anya is revered to almost national-treasure status, and New York) and in other colors, these too became iconic bags de choix.
Doing double-duty with Anya’s bag is Kikidoll’s lifetime achievement award-winning tote bag, the Boat n’ Tote by LL Bean.  Sadly, Kikidoll’s initial one– so frayed and bleached out it looked like Man Friday’s attache–was ‘taken’.  A newer model still looking pristine and fresh is on its way to  
‘shabby chic’ fraydom.
 

Taking her signature logo print shell fabric, Kikidoll printed it on canvas, made a canvas beach tote and lined it in her shell printed spandex to match her bikinis. With big roomy pockets, there’s place for a wet bikini, towel and everything else a wahine needs to tote to the beach.

Shell print canvas beach tote by Kikidoll

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About Kikidoll
Kikidoll is the eternal beachgirl, and takes her inspiration from the awesome elegance and pristine simplicity of beaches and waves everywhere. She muses on islands, oceans, beaches, shells, flowers, tropical living, travel, design and style, swimming, surfing, her beloved Hawaii nei, the spirit of aloha, iconic symbols and of course the fleeting ‘endless summer’. Most importantly, she frets over what to wear at the beach!
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