We Thought It Was Over, But Apparently Chic Women in New York Still Wear This 2025 Bag Trend

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Elle Fanning attending the Coach New York Fashion Week show.
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While scrolling on TikTok mid–New York Fashion Week, I came across a video of Elle Fanning sprawled out on an old orange-and-yellow Subway seat reading a tiny book.

Upon further inspection, I realized this was taken after the Coach F/W 26 show, and the tiny book was actually a bag charm by the brand. The actress, who is nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Sentimental Value, attended the show while wearing a whimsical Coach look that featured a long white dress with sparkling star details, a fur-trimmed leather coat, and a plush brown Tabby bag.

Elle Fanning attending the Coach New York Fashion Week show.

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Of course, dangling from the Tabby bag was the aforementioned book charm, which was a miniature version of Sense and Sensibility, the 1811 novel by Jane Austin that follows the Dashwood sisters as they navigate love and heartbreak following their father's death.

The bag charms debuted on Coach's last S/S 26 runway show back in September and have entirely revived our love for the accessorized-bag trend we thought we'd leave behind this year. With tiny book charms this cute, how could we?

Shop Coach's cutest bag charms below.

Tara Gonzalez
Tara Gonzalez
Senior Fashion & Social Editor

Tara Gonzalez is a senior fashion and social editor at WhoWhatWear. where she is interested in exploring the intersection of fashion and culture and why we are drawn to wearing the things we wear and what that says about the world we live in. Previously she worked as a senior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar. When she isn't writing trend deep dives for WWW, she's working on her newsletter on Substack, Cult Classic, which explores the very best fashion in film and television. She has a degree in creative writing from The University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend and pug Bjork, the later of which has a very extensive collection of dog-sized Sandy Liang sweaters.