First and foremost, this is an impressive item owing to the sheer amount of crafting going on here. This purse is hand quilted, using an old Nirvana T-shirt with the image of the band at its most energetic and exciting on one side, and a hand-embroidered patch of the Nirvana logo on the other. The entire thing is circular — made to look like a record — with hand-stitched grooves on both sides. It’s awesome. That it’s also sort of functional is just icing on the cake. While it might lack certain features of handbags that most of us have come to enjoy (pockets, zippers, etc.) it makes up for in being capacious and cool looking. You might not be able to find your wallet with ease, but who cares. It’s kind of a perfect grunge “fuck you” to all of those record bags that were so ubiquitous on the shoulders of aspiring DJs in the ’90s. This bag says, “Take your protective gatefold sleeves and shove it” without saying a word.
