Designer Jil Sander has given the classic brown paper lunch bag a couture makeover. At her fall/winter 2012 runway show, Sander sent out models clutching her Vasari purse -- essentially a brown ...

Now, suddenly, the humble brown paper bag is at the heart of a dispute: Who designed it and when? Apparently, paper bags were the smartphones of the mid-19th century: The business was filled with ...

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 ...

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 $ ...