Borse Bolero per Donna

Pierpaolo Piccioli’s first designed bag for Balenciaga—the Bolero—was introduced within the Summer 26 Collection, on the Paris runway alongside reenvisioned classics. The Balenciaga Bolero explores the House’s leathercraft heritage and interprets the archive’s architectural volumes, named for a seminal design by Cristóbal Balenciaga himself.
In 1937, the Getaria-born founder’s first Paris Couture presentation provided loving references to his home country’s traditional Spanish dress, including, notably, a bolero (shortened jacket, rounded in the back). Piccioli’s wide-set, streamlined Bolero Bag translates that iconic silhouette—one that has since continually influenced Balenciaga’s collections.
Tracing the Bolero Bag’s hilt and circling its entire circumference is a zipper opening that splits, oyster-like, accentuating an infinite outline marked by two leather keyring-ended pulls that meet at an invisible hinge. On bag’s ovular base, a zipped exterior compartment opens on a tilt, emphasizing a uniquely body-friendly versatility: the bag’s ergonomic shape may be held, clutch-like, under the arm and accessed through this lower recess, or it may be hooked over the elbow.
A pair of close-looped handles and a detachable cross-body strap are designed to correspond with the practical necessities and optional luxuries of a person in motion. These handles are threaded with four bold B-shaped metal emblems facing frontwards and backwards—the first glimpse of a new institutional logo designed by Piccioli.