Hermes Kelly Mini 2 19 CM Bag Handmade In Epsom Calfskin Leather Gold Hardware OF Blue Fruda

The same Blue Frida, a different argument: with gold hardware the colour turns warmer and slightly nocturnal, less graphic than the silver version and more like evening water. I have carried both versions, and the choice between them comes down to what you wear, since gold suits browns and creams, while silver suits blacks and greys.

Function is unchanged, which with Epsom is a compliment: pressed grain, rigid panels, a surface that ignores the world, and a 19cm interior that keeps a phone, a card case and keys in a fixed order. The bag will not sag, fray, or surprise you.

The gold turn-lock stands out more against this blue than silver does, becoming a small brass punctuation mark on a deep field. Some people want hardware to vanish; this one expects to be seen, and on a blue this saturated I think that is the right call.

The one caution, perennial with Epsom, is that it does not adapt. Buy it because you like it now, because it will look like this for years. Blue Frida is a colour worth committing to, and the gold version is the more romantic of the two.

Stored cool and worn often, the gold and blue keep each other honest, and I have started to think of this as the least colour-specific deep blue I own, winter or summer, city or coast, and no other blue I have owned travels quite this well.