Gone are the days of spending just 5 cents for a paper bag from the grocery store — this one will cost you $2,500. Earlier this year, Bottega Veneta released its “Raw Paper Leather Top-Handle ...

It’s not a joke—Bottega Veneta has actually manufactured two leather handbags designed to look just like brown paper bags a store, and it’s selling them for $1,700 at the smaller size and $ ...

And, as other entities in the fashion world have been airbrushed and transformed over the last five decades, its brown-kraft-paper visage has had no significant face-lifts. It is a shopping bag ...