Glass purses aren’t a new innovation as much as a throwback—the Coperni x Heven bags reference the vintage glass bags from Murano, the famed glass-producing island just off Venice. “We can compare it to Cinderella’s glass slipper,” Chrisman-Campbell says. “It’s a very eye-catching yet very fragile piece. It almost defies reality that it can exist at all. It’s surrealist, and I think fashion is trending in that direction—you can’t believe your eyes.” Despite a probable high retail price and the reasonable associations between the word glass and the word broken, the Heven designers are confident that their product is highly functional. Speaking to i-D, they enumerated its many uses: a place for a phone, for a wallet; a vase in which to hold flowers; and perhaps, for a woman walking alone at night, a weapon.
