Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Leather
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Creasing, minor wear and scuffs on exterior, small marks in interior, scratches and tarnish on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8.5", Depth ...
Dior x Sorayama Robot Dinosaur Nylon & Navy Leather Roller Shoulder Bag
Located in New York, NY
Listing Title: Dior x Sorayama Robot Dinosaur Nylon & Navy Leather Roller Shoulder Bag SKU: 113517 Condition: Pre-owned Condition Description: Inspired by the artwork of Hajime Sora...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Leather
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Accessories: With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", Depth 5", Strap Drop 18-28" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Roller Messenger Bag Leather Exterior Material: Leather Exterio...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Light wear on exterior, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", Depth 4", Strap Drop 17-25" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Roller...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Leather Mini
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Light creasing on exterior, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, Extra Strap, With Strap Measurements: Height 4.5", Width 7", Depth 4", Strap Drop 9-29" Designer: Christian ...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Minor wear on exterior edges and in interior, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", Depth 5", Strap Drop 17-25" Designer: Christ...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Minor wear on leather trims, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8.5", Depth 5", Strap Drop 15-25" Designer: Christian Dior Model:...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Minor wear on leather trims, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8.5", Depth 5", Strap Drop 15-25" Designer: Christian Dior Model:...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Accessories: Box, Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", Depth 5", Strap Drop 11-25" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas Exterior Mat...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Minor wear and marks on exterior and in interior, scratches and tarnish on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Handle Drop 2.5", Height 5", Width 8.5", Depth 4"...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Minor wear and marks on exterior and in interior, scratches and tarnish on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Handle Drop 2.5", Height 5", Width 8.5", Depth 4"...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Accessories: With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", Depth 5", Strap Drop 18-28" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas Exterior Material: Canvas P...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Accessories: With Strap Measurements: Handle Drop 2.5", Height 5", Width 8", Depth 4", Strap Drop 17-25" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas Exterior ...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Technical Fabric
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Scuffs on exterior and strap leather trims, moderate stains and wear in interior, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", Depth 5", Strap Drop...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Galaxy Leather
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Accessories: Box, With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8.5", Depth 5", Strap Drop 15-25" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Galaxy Leather Exterior Mat...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Galaxy Leather
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Accessories: Box, With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8.5", Depth 5", Strap Drop 15-25" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Galaxy Leather Exterior Mat...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Embroidered Coated Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Slight creasing and wear on exterior and in interior, small indentations on strap base trims, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width ...
Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Limited Edition Sorayama Oblique Nylon
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Light creasing on exterior and strap, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, Extra Bag, Pochette Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", Depth 5", Strap Drop 20-27" Designer: Chris...
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Christian Dior Roller Messenger Bag Limited Edition Sorayama Oblique Canvas Mini
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Accessories: Extra Strap, With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", Depth 5", Strap Drop 20-27" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Roller Messenger Bag Limited Edition Sorayama Obli...
Christian Dior Sorayama Roller Messenger Bag Nylon
By Christian Dior
Located in Irvine, CA
Christian Dior Sorayama Roller Messenger Bag Nylon. Odor in interior.
Christian Dior Sorayama Roller Messenger Bag Nylon
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Accessories: With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", Depth 5", Strap Drop 17-25" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Sorayama Roller Messenger Bag Nylon Exterior Material: Nylon Ex...
Christian Dior Sorayama Roller Messenger Bag Nylon
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Moderate creasing, wear and small marks on exterior, minor wear in interior, scratches and tarnish on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", D...
Christian Dior Sorayama Roller Messenger Bag Printed Nylon
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", Depth 5", Strap Drop 20-27" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Sorayama Roller Messenger Bag Printed Nylo...
Christian Dior Vertical Roller Messenger Bag Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Accessories: No Accessories Measurements: Handle Drop 1.5", Height 8.5", Width 4", Depth 4", Strap Drop 22-25" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Vertical Roller Messenger Bag Oblique C...
Christian Dior Kenny Scharf Roller Messenger Bag Embroidered Oblique Canv
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Slight wear in interior. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", Depth 5", Strap Drop 18-27.5" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Kenny Scharf Roller Messen...
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H 4.5 in W 8 in D 4.5 in
Christian Dior Kenny Scharf Roller Messenger Bag Embroidered Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 4.5", Width 8", Depth 4.5", Strap Drop 16-24" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Kenny Scharf Roller Messen...
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H 4.5 in W 8 in D 4.5 in
Christian Dior Kenny Scharf Roller Messenger Bag Embroidered Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 4.5", Width 8", Depth 4.5", Strap Drop 16-24" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Kenny Scharf Roller Messen...
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H 4.5 in W 8 in D 4.5 in
Christian Dior Kenny Scharf Roller Messenger Bag Embroidered Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 4.5", Width 8", Depth 4.5", Strap Drop 16-24" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Kenny Scharf Roller Messen...
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H 4.5 in W 8 in D 4.5 in
Christian Dior Kenny Scharf Roller Messenger Bag Embroidered Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Light creasing on strap, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 4.5", Width 8", Depth 4.5", Strap Drop 16-24" Designer: Christian Dior Model: K...
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H 4.5 in W 8 in D 4.5 in
Christian Dior Kenny Scharf Roller Messenger Bag Embroidered Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Light wear in interior, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 4.5", Width 8", Depth 4.5", Strap Drop 16-24" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Ke...
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H 4.5 in W 8 in D 4.5 in
Christian Dior Kenny Scharf Roller Messenger Bag Embroidered Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Minor pilling on exterior, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 4.5", Width 8", Depth 4.5", Strap Drop 16-24" Designer: Christian Dior Model:...
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H 4.5 in W 8 in D 4.5 in
Christian Dior Kenny Scharf Roller Messenger Bag Embroidered Oblique Canvas
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Light wear in interior, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 4.5", Width 8", Depth 4.5", Strap Drop 16-27" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Ke...
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H 5 in W 8 in D 4.5 in
Christian Dior Kenny Scharf Roller Messenger Bag Embroidered Oblique CanvasCanv
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Accessories: With Strap Measurements: Height 5", Width 8", Depth 4.5", Strap Drop 16-27" Designer: Christian Dior Model: Kenny Scharf Roller Messenger Bag Embroidered Oblique Canvas ...
When Christian Dior launched his couture house, in 1946, he wanted nothing less than to make “an elegant woman more beautiful and a beautiful woman more elegant.” He succeeded, and in doing so the visionary designer altered the landscape of 20th century fashion. Vintage Dior bags, shoes, evening dresses, shirts and other garments and accessories are known today for their feminine and sophisticated sensibility.
Dior was born in Granville, on the Normandy coast, in 1905. His prosperous haute bourgeois parents wanted him to become a diplomat despite his interest in art and architecture. However, they agreed to bankroll an art gallery, which Dior opened in 1928 in Paris with a friend.
This was the start of Dior’s rise in the city’s creative milieu, where he befriended Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. After seven years as an art dealer, Dior retrained as a fashion illustrator, eventually landing a job as a fashion designer for Robert Piguet, and in 1941, following a year of military service, he joined the house of Lucien Lelong. Just five years later, with the backing of industrialist Marcel Boussac, the ascendant Dior established his own fashion house, at 30 avenue Montaigne in Paris.
Just two years after the end of World War II, the fashion crowd and the moribund haute couture industry were yearning, comme tout Paris, for security and prosperity, desperate to discard the drab, sexless, utilitarian garb imposed by wartime deprivation. They needed to dream anew.
And Dior delivered: He designed a collection for a bright, optimistic future. “It’s quite a revolution, dear Christian!” exclaimed Carmel Snow, the prescient American editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, famously proclaiming, “Your dresses have such a new look.” The press ran with the description, christening Dior’s debut Spring/Summer haute couture collection the New Look. “God help those who bought before they saw Dior,” said Snow. “This changes everything.”
Dior’s collection definitively declared that opulence, luxury and femininity were in. His skirts could have 40-meter-circumference hems, and outfits could weigh up to 60 pounds. They were cut and shaped like architecture, on strong foundations that molded women and “freed them from nature,” Dior said. Rather than rationing, his ladies wanted reams of fabric and 19-inch waists enforced by wire corsets, and the fashion world concurred. The debut got a standing ovation.
In the subsequent decade, Paris ruled as the undisputed fashion capital of the world, and Christian Dior reigned as its king. With the luxuriously full skirts of his New Look, suits and his drop-dead gorgeous couture dresses and ball gowns worthy of any princess, Dior gave women the gift of glamour they’d lost in the miserable years of war.
On 1stDibs, find an exquisite range of vintage Christian Dior clothing, jewelry, handbags and other items.
Stylish and practical, vintage and designer crossbody bags and messenger bags are ideal for all occasions, from lunch dates to errands to sunny afternoons in the park to formal affairs.
Messenger bags are a fashion staple. A shoulder bag that’s designed to be durable and lightweight, messenger bags offer comfort and convenience when carrying heavy items, and while their functionality is comparable to that of standard backpacks, you don’t have to take your bag off to get into its compartments and various zippered pockets. This is a sophisticated accessory — it sits flat against your body and provides easy access to your belongings at all times.
Our love for vintage handbags and purses goes back a long time. For as long as we’ve needed to carry around personal items to and from our homes, handbags of some fashion have been in our lives. Bag design evolved notably during the later Middle Ages to meet the needs of increasingly prosperous, sophisticated and diverse societies. As craftspeople grew in skill, and the choice of materials and dyes increased, the bags’ exteriors were embellished to please the eye and signify status. In our modern era, there is a vast range of iconic handbags and other bags to choose from.
Crossbody bags, which were designed to be worn on one side of the body so that the long strap is looped over the opposite shoulder, have been popular and versatile accessories over time, thankfully improving upon the medieval-era crude leather and silk coin purses that Europeans fastened to their belts as well as the drawstring pouches of the Renaissance, which held money as often as they did flowers and spices. These bags — as well as the stylish messenger bags that have materialized during the 20th century — weren’t bound by gender when they first appeared, and they certainly aren’t today.
For an alluring alternative to a satchel or backpack, luxury houses and various legendary brands such as Gucci, Prada, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and others offer a wide range of crossbody bags and messenger bags for the discerning bag enthusiast. Find these bags in all shapes and sizes on 1stDibs.