Handbag of the week: Anya Hindmarch

Bowery shoulder bag, £750 by Anya Hindmarch

Bright, happy and confident.  What do you mean you're not feeling any of those things during this dark, dreary, financially wobbly start to 2009?  Well it's lucky that those were Anya Hindmarch's intentions then when designing her early spring collection, "to start the New Year on the right note I wanted an upbeat fresh collection with little hints of neon colour.  Bright, happy and confident.  Just what we all need."  

And we'd have to agree, the Bowery bag is definitely what we need.  Its colourful woven wicker-style panels of cornflower blue, turquoise, raspberry and egg yolk yellow are ultra-cheerful and we're all about the cheer inducing buys right now.