Bevilacqua Handbags: Top Italian Craftsmanship to Impress with Elegance

Sometimes it’s nice to reward ourselves with an exclusive object that we love and that makes us feel good. Our handcrafted bags in velvet and other fine fabrics are designed just for you: here are the latest additions to the fall-winter 2022/23 collection, their secrets and features.

Elisabetta Backpack

Never has a backpack been more trendy and charming than Elisabetta. Our designers have created a gorgeous accessory with essential, clean lines and an original triangular shape. But what makes it even bolder is the fabric chosen to make it: the Leopardo velvet. This silk velvet has an elegant animal pattern, and in the stone color it has discreet, neutral tones to match any daytime look with graceful personality.

It features leather shoulder straps, side zipper opening and a practical pocket both outside and inside, where it is lined with soft nubuck. Thus, the practicality of the backpack blends with fashion elements in a bold accessory that stands out for its exclusivity and also for its dimensions, with a 42cm base and 47cm height, which boldly emphasize its strong and innovative style.

A strong personality like that of Elisabetta Caminer Turra, the Enlightenment scholar to whom it is dedicated. One among the Venetian female figures of whom the city is proud, she lived in the second half of the 18th century. Founder and editor of the “Giornale Enciclopedico,” she is considered the first Italian female journalist.

Caterina Extra Large Velvet Bowler Bag

The Caterina silk velvet bag collection is enriched with a new model. This bowler bag with a super feminine line, already available in two versions, classic and “mini,” also becomes extra-large and, for its debut, the fabric chosen is really among the most exclusive. It is the Coccodrillo silk velvet, in the soprarizzo version, patiently hand-woven on the looms of the School of the Serenissima dating back to the 17th century. A classic animal motif so beloved by women and made even more feminine by the refined antique pink color.

The larger size, with a 40cm base, 20cm height and 17.5cm depth, adds character and great practicality, and Caterina becomes the ideal bag for traveling.

Veronica Extra Large Silk Velvet Handbag

The Veronica bags collection, featuring original accessories to carry in unusual ways, now also includes an extra-large version. In fact, the mini-bag with a removable shoulder strap that can also be worn as a belt bag is joined by a slightly larger model that measures 18cm on the side, 10cm high and 4cm deep.

This bag has the option of being worn around the waist with the belt with which it is equipped, or over the shoulder with a chain strap. But it can also be simply carried by holding it in the hand.

Veronica XL is also made from exclusive silk fabrics such as blue Lepanto velvet, black Rinascimento velvet and sky-blue Lune velvet.

The Fabrics Used for the Bevilacqua Bags Collection

To make these accessories, we collaborated with Italian artisans, who handcrafted the leather and made our bags with care and precision.

In addition to the newly presented bags, the must-haves for this season are the Artemisia doctor bag, with an exotic touch in Coccodrillo silk heddle velvet in indigo color and in the exclusive Coccodrillo silk soprarizzo manual velvet in warm brown tones.

Not only in velvets, as for the Elena mini bag, but also in the seductive silk lampas Uccelli in black.

To make these accessories we have chosen different fabrics not only in type, but also in pattern. In fact, you will find floral patterns like the romantic Fresie silk velvet of the Elena bag, inspired by the multicolored velvets produced in Genoa between the 17th and 18th centuries.

Other designs, on the other hand, will take you on a journey back in time, to the ancient Byzantine Empire, like the Leoni soprarizzo silk manual velvet in the vitaminic fuchsia color of the Bevilacqua Tote Bag shopper, or to the modern era, with a fabric like the Lune velvet of the Elena mini bag, with an abstract Art Deco-inspired pattern of reflecting moons.

You may have already noticed: each of these products is named after a woman. And these are not names chosen at random, but female figures, Venetian or Italian, who have made their mark in their field, and to whom we wanted to pay this small tribute.

Browsing through the catalog of these bags you will journey through history, art, literature and fashion, the fields in which these women distinguished themselves. And you will discover accessories that combine fine Italian craftsmanship and the Venetian tradition of textile production.