Stairway to heaven: Thomas Heatherwick stuns Manhattan with his new store for Longchamp.

From: The Architectural Review | Date: August 1, 2006| Author: Slessor, Catherine | Copyright information

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, it all began with a handbag. In 2003 the perpetually inventive Thomas Heatherwick was invited by French conglomerate Longchamp, patrician purveyor of luxury accessories, to design a handbag. He duly obliged with the Zip Bag, a typically audacious piece of lateral fashion thinking in which a super-long zip was wound in horizontal concentric rings around the entire bag, allowing it to expand and contract like a small but extremely stylish accordion. From th...

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