When aren’t gorgeous statement handbags at the top of the trend agenda? Almost every season for the past umpteenth years we covet the top designers for the biggest, loudest, most excessive bags to sport around the city. If you’re wallet doesn’t quite stretch to the Prada and Gucci wall, just make sure your bag is bright, smothered in beads and things, or even sequin.

Check out a few statement bags that made my must-have list.