Buying Guide | Red or Berry: Which Baguette Is Yours?

Same silhouette. Same chain. Same price. Two completely different personalities.

The Baguette Embossed in berry and the Baguette Soft in red wine sit at the centre of the Berry Collection — the two pieces most people consider first, and the two pieces most people find genuinely difficult to choose between. Both work for the office. Both work for the evening after. Here is what makes them different — and how to decide.

The first difference is how they make you feel when you carry them.

The Baguette Soft in red wine has a particular quality that is difficult to name precisely. The leather is smooth and soft enough to move with the body rather than holding itself away from it. The gold hardware catches light warmly. The red wine colour sits closer to brown than to red — settled, warm, never demanding.

Together these qualities add up to something feminine in the truest sense — not decorative, not delicate, but soft in the way that a well-chosen detail softens an entire outfit without changing it. A tailored blazer and trousers with the Baguette Soft at the shoulder: the outfit stays sharp. The bag makes it human.

This is the bag for the woman who wants to bring a feminine touch to her working wardrobe without the outfit losing its authority. The softness is the point.

The Baguette Embossed in berry works differently. The croc-emboss pattern is pressed into the leather — not printed on top, not applied as a finish, but part of the surface itself. The gunmetal chain. The berry colour with its violet edge. Together these create something edgier — more structured in feeling, more neutral in the sense that it does not lean toward either femininity or masculinity but sits somewhere more singular.

Against a work outfit the Embossed reads as a considered detail — the kind that makes the overall look more interesting without softening or sharpening it. It adds personality without changing the register.

This is the bag for the woman who wants to bring an individual edge to her working wardrobe. The texture is the point.

The second difference is colour.

Red wine behaves almost like a neutral. It pairs with black, cream, camel, navy, denim, chocolate brown without requiring any adjustment. It is the colour you reach for without thinking, which is the highest compliment a colour can receive. In a working wardrobe built on neutrals, red wine provides warmth without disruption.

Berry has a violet edge — more unexpected, more expressive, the colour that surprises you after you have chosen it. It is not difficult to wear, but it does make a quiet statement that red wine does not. In a working wardrobe it reads as a deliberate colour decision — someone who knows exactly what she is doing with her palette.

If you want the colour to work quietly in the background — choose red wine.
If you want the colour to be noticed on close inspection — choose berry.

The third difference is texture.

The Baguette Embossed catches light differently depending on the angle — the pattern shifting between larger organic forms and something tighter, more geometric. Up close it reveals itself. From across a room it reads as a single deep tone. The bag rewards attention.

The Baguette Soft does not have texture in this sense. What it has is presence through softness — the leather that moves, the colour that settles, the bag that belongs to the outfit rather than competing with it.

If you are drawn to craft and detail — choose the Embossed.
If you are drawn to ease and softness — choose the Soft.

For the working wardrobe specifically:

Baguette Soft red wine — the feminine touch. Wear it when the outfit is already composed and you want the bag to add warmth and softness without changing the overall authority of the look. Works from desk to dinner without reconsidering.

Baguette Embossed berry — the individual edge. Wear it when the outfit is already neutral and you want the bag to add character without loudness. The texture does the talking quietly.

Both are $109. Both carry crossbody or shoulder. Both are from LWG Gold-certified leather.

The choice is not which is better. The choice is which version of yourself you are going to work as tomorrow.

Shop the Baguette Embossed — Shop the Baguette Soft