It’s the unsung hero of the modern lunch, the container from which countless school children have drawn nourishment and Twinkies over the years. Now, suddenly, the humble brown paper bag is at the ...

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 Bag,” a ...

And other celebrations of women in design, in MoMA’s current exhibit, Designing Modern Women, 1890-1990. Take that, patriarchy! Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Saul Bass, Dieter Rams, Jony Ive. It ...

The Coach bag was a new kind of purse for a new era. Unlike the handbags of the 1950s, it was built to wear, and to hold a lot. Part of the reason: its original design was based on the Depression-era ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Few things are as useful as the paper bag. In the United States, people use (and reuse) 10 billion of them ...