Storage Guides

How to Care for a Goyard St. Louis

The goyardine canvas on a St. Louis is genuinely tough, but the leather trim water-spots, the bag collapses without support, and the matching pouch is easy to lose and expensive to replace. Here is...

How to Store a Dior Book Tote

The Book Tote's embroidered canvas snags where a smooth surface would not, it has no internal frame and no closure at all, and its unlined interior lets stains show through. Here is the storage pro...

How to Store a Bottega Veneta Intrecciato Bag

Woven leather fails differently than any other luxury bag material: strips loosen at corners, snag on rough dust bag linings, and hold permanent indentations from point pressure. Here is the storag...

How to Store a Lady Dior

The Lady Dior's rigid frame prevents slouching, but that same structure shifts the real risks to cannage stitch tension, lambskin surface marking, corner scuffing, and hardware tarnish. Here is the...

Why Tissue Paper Is Ruining Your Bags

Most people storing a handbag with tissue paper are using the wrong tissue paper, and a fair number are using the right idea in the wrong quantity. Regular white tissue — the kind sold in gift-wrap...

Silica Gel, Dehumidifiers, and Cedar: What Actually Works in a Bag Closet

Ask five handbag owners how they control humidity in their storage closet and you will get five different answers: a few silica packets saved from a shoebox, a cedar block bought because it smelled...

How to Store a Louis Vuitton Speedy

The Speedy has no internal structure at all, which makes base collapse the single most predictable damage pattern in the Louis Vuitton lineup. Here is the base support, handle care, and hardware pr...

How to Store a Louis Vuitton Neverfull

The Neverfull slouches when it's empty, its vachetta trim reacts to light and moisture, and the removable pouch does more structural work than most owners realize. Here is the storage protocol buil...

Storing Chanel Long-Term: Boxes, Dust Bags, Humidity

For storage runs of 30 days or more, the box-versus-dust-bag choice and your closet's humidity matter more than any single cleaning habit. Here is the system.

How to Store a Chanel Boy Bag

The Boy Bag's structured leather and chunky chain make it more forgiving than a Classic Flap, but its rigid top flap creases if it sits closed under weight. Here is how to store Small, Medium, and ...

How to Store a Chanel Classic Flap

The Classic Flap's quilting, chain, and clasp each fail in a different way if stored wrong. Here is the exact storage protocol for Medium and Jumbo, from daily rotation to long-term boxing.

Storing Hermès in Humid Climates: A Complete Playbook

If you live somewhere humid — Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Mumbai, coastal Southeast — your storage playbook is different. Here's the complete guide: closet setup, dehumidifier sizing, lea...