Thanks to all the fabulous readers and friends who attended our party last night. The evening was a smashing success! We had such a huge turn out we ran out of champagne three times! Luckily, Steven Mathieu-- the Retail Manager At Large for Oscar de la Renta replenished quickly each time. A big thank you to our our friends from the press who came in support of the event-- Rachel of WWD and Jennifer Chan of Fashionweek daily and of course the photographers and videographers from Splash News and Patrick McMullen! (see more photos after the jump!)

From WWD

Check out the May 5th issue of US magazine, we were asked to estimate the value of the the ridiculous Louis Vuitton Joke bag and the adorable Prada Fairy bag in 20 years. If you bought either of these bags, take good care of them, they'll be worth a fortune in the future! This is what we told US:
The Prada Fairy bag is a slice of modern pop art at its best. The fusion of designer bag and art is a modern day phenomenon and one that is sure to increase in value. Prada bags are not known to keep their value but with James Jean's touch, the Fairy Bag as wearable art should fetch at least $5,000 in 20 years. That is, if he is still alive. If he is not, the price may be double that!

Louis Vuitton is a fashion behemoth that requires quite a bit to stir up. Richard Prince is provocative and edgy and is just what they needed to keep things fresh and one step ahead. LV keeps its value well and being that this bag is a piece of "art" and is trimmed in python, you can be sure in 20 years it will be worth close to $10,000. But I'm just being perfectly objective and rational, otherwise, this bag is a hideous disaster!

Thank you to all the amazing girls who showed up to support Genesis Women's Shelter at our Bags and Bubbly event last week! Your efforts were greatly appreciated and we sold lots of bags, jewelry, and shoes! Thank you to Suze restaurant for the yummy desserts and champagne! Photos of the party after the jump!!! Don't forget to come see Kelly and me at the Oscar de la Renta boutique on Melrose in LA on May 20th, 5-8pm, for another fabulous Bags and Bubbly event!

For complete article- WWD.com

This is a great article about the evolving relationship between designers and online media. Kelly and I are always taking strides to provide better content on our sites which is why I think it's appropriate to announce our next endeavor, The SNOB Network. We are in pre-production for a Fashion/Lifestyle show to be aired on our sites and distributed through Internet TV! The show will provide original content via Designer interviews, Beauty and Fashion How-to's, and much more. Our super agents at CAA found a top notch production team for us and we begin filming in NYC in May!

Our sister site, Beauty Snob, is listed in WWD's Top Ten Beauty Blogs in the world! Thank you to Michelle Edgar of WWD and to our friend, Julia Coney of All About the Pretty for the outreach.

A big thank you to the super adorable Stephanie Quadri, Fashion Editor of D Magazine!

Thanks to our friends across the pond (Linda The Thoughtful Dresser and Michele of My Fashion Life) for alerting us and forwarding our feature in Grazia, UK's first weekly fashion mag and the #1 weekly glossy in Europe!

Set your Tivos ladies and gents! The Bag Snobs will be seen on a new television series from The Style Network alongside Tom Ford, Tamara Mellon, Paul Cavaco, and several other high profile fashion figures. We will appear in 3 out of 6 episodes. So keep your channel set to The Style Network because the show is slated to run for 5 years!!! Our International friends in Europe, Asia and beyond can catch the show when it launches in January on E! International to 660 million viewers.

When: Saturday November 24th - 6pm EST, 5pm CST, 3pm PST
(Please check your local guide for additional showtimes- the show will be broadcast everyday!)

Where: The Style Network

What: "25 Most Stylish...."
1. Essentials
2. Couples
3. Red Carpet Looks

You must check out the latest issue of US Weekly, featuring a 3 page Hollywood Halloween Fashion Police extravaganza! We are featured as Top cops twice a month so don't forget to check out what the Bag Snob Girls have to say about Fashion offenders every other week!

We are always asked to describe our best and worst experience since starting Bag Snob, up to this week, we have never had any bad experiences. So with this feature in Wall Street Journal, I am able to say we had the best week of our career, and the worst week of our career. But as my grandmother always says, take both the good and the bad but turn it into something positive. I hope you enjoy reading our Bag Guide for the Ultimate Bag Wardrobe. This is just a taste of the Bag Snob Guide book to come :)

A big thank you to Wall Street Journal Senior Fashion Writer, Vanessa O'Connell, for recognizing Bag Snob and honoring us with this feature.

Grab your copy of Women's Wear Daily today to read all about Bag Snob at Fashion Week!

The Power of a Post:
Kelly Cook and Tina Chen Craig were housewives - albeit ones who owned their own Chloe Paddingtons - simply blogging about their love for designer bags until they "outted" a fake handbag site. Today, they aren't shy to say that they, as bloggers called the BagSnob, are responsible for selling out designer bags that have their stamp of approval. "Anya Hindmarch is the best example of the kind of influence we can have on one designer," elaborates Cook. "We featured the Alessandra bag a few months ago and all their stores were inundated with calls. This bag was sold out within days." Cook and Craig make a post nearly every day about one bag or another, detailing aspects of the bag that would otherwise never make it to magazines - like how the Bottega Veneta Anaconda Lucida Lux is a slouchy frame bag that will never lose its shape or how one bag (shall remain unnamed) is a "been-there-done-that military inspired Mulberry knock-off". These brutally frank reviews are just what readers keep coming back for to the snobs for bag advice.

Bazaar's top 5 picks:
Bagsnob: Hilarious reviews of the current bags to hit shelves - "it" or not, these two bag-lovers say it like it is. Now celebrity bloggers in their own right, they take on the big brands daily, revealing what they feel is misguided design sense, shoddy workmanship or just plain ugliness in their irreverent know-it-all style.

Love and thanks to our devoted reader, Brendan of [vogue] , for typing the article out for us!

New Kids on the Blog

Bag Snob dishes the blog phenom with China Morning Post! The fashion editor of a newspaper in the least fashionable city in America should take note, over a billion people in China have.

I am still in LA and am exhausted from a whirlwind of activities. We have been up to lots of fun stuff, including appearances in the new series from E! Style Network and E! International named "25 most Stylish" , it's a series of countdown shows of the top 25 fashion icons, red carpet looks, celeb couples, etc. There will be a total of 6 episode in the series that will be broadcast globally to 660 million viewers! We are in 3 episodes along with (are you ready?)... Tom Ford (to die right?!?!), the legendary Paul Cavaco, Tamara Mellon and a few other illustrious fashion figures. To say that we were awe struck in the company of this group would be an understatement. Look for us in this fabulous new series starting November!

Anaconda or Python? You thought it was a matter of taste but you are really taking a position in a global debate over which slithering creature is more at risk of endangerment! Vanessa O'Connell from the Wall Street Journal interviewed me after seeing the story on my Bottega Anaconda and my love of exotics. Watch for us in another WSJ article this week, we were interviewed twice in one day by the New York and Dallas WSJ bureaus, purely a coincidence but we still felt very serious and quite smart ;). Needless to say, our husbands are thoroughly impressed as they are better versed in the Wall Street Journal than in Vogue.

Full WSJ article here.

Perhaps a little TMI but we were flattered to be featured by GlamLive for a little fun questionnaire about ourselves. You probably know all about our closets by now so here is a little glimpse of the rest of us. I wasn't really thinking when I answered these questions, some of them are kinda embarrassing! Maybe we were a little too honest, but I guess that's what you guys are here for, our no holds barred, tell them like it is, honesty =)

We love it when our online friends give us props. Here are two sites who have shown us love in recent weeks.

Su and Cris from Stiletto Effect list their fave bloggers.

Thanks, Dory for the lovely profile on Bag Snob!

The Chicago Tribune wants to know if this environmental bag craze is a real trend. The Bag Snob is quoted in the article saying I go for plastic for now but only in cases of extremely leaky chicken! I use the I'm Not a Plastic Bag for all my shopping now and if I do occasionally ask for the one plastic bag here and there, I am still saving many many with each shopping trip. Not to be defensive or anything =) Read on for the whole story.

Danielle Radojcin, Fashion Editor of Handbag.com named Bag Snob one of top 10 BEST fashion blogs! We are extremely flattered to be in the company of sites such as "On The Runway" by Cathy Horyn of the New York Times and extend our congratulations to everyone featured on the list. (Complete list.)

From Handbag.com:
Okay, so we admit that the recent explosion of weblogs on the internet has resulted in a profusion of badly-written commentaries which wouldn't look out of place in the diary of a bored thirteen-year old (with the grammar and spelling to match). But, as with so many things in life, all it takes is a bit of tenacity and - hey presto - a few gems emerge - which is where handbag comes in... We've sorted through the dross to bring you what we consider the 10 best fashion blogs out there. Informative, funny, and often downright rude, they should keep you distracted through your - ahem - coffee break, and beyond

The Bag Snob
Good for: Straightforward information. If it's good, the bag snob will say so, and if not, the bag snob will tell you that, too. As well as handbag giveaways, they also cover fashion and celebrity gossip in general, and invite readers to vote on celebrity photos in their hilarious 'Snob or Slob' section.

Need to know: Tina and Kelly are The Bag Snob Girls, who present 'a selective editorial on bags'. They bring you handbag-related news daily, and aren't afraid to be very opinionated.

Blog sampler: 'I am super irritated by the latest trend of clear PVC see-thru bags; not only are they ugly and cheap looking, they're outrageously expensive.' "

Apple Daily, Taiwan and Hong Kong's #1 newspaper honored Bag Snob with a full page profile last month. A big Thank You to Chia Hua Lin for her in depth report and for introducing us to thousands of new readers in Asia! Our families were able to read this and finally understand our business (and that we're not just "playing" on our computers all day long. Well, we actually are playing but it's not our fault our work is so fun!). My 93 year old grandmother, who has been my inspiration for a lifetime, is most proud of us and that means the world to me. Thanks Kel for the introduction to Chia Hua. xoxo

Get your copy of US magazine today! The Bag Snobs are one of the Fashion Police again this week :) (We are now regular contributors so look for us monthly!) You know how we feel about ugly bags that serve no purpose, see what we have to say about celeb fashion offenders! Thanks Sasha and Monique, for allowing us to write for the best celeb magazine in the world!

Taiwan's Eastern Times newspaper re-printed our article on the LV Tribute Patchwork bag last week, causing our traffic to more than double. No surprise that there are lots of Bag Snobs in Taiwan, where the Bag Snob girls were born. Of all the press we've received to date, getting a shoutout from the motherland has made us most proud! We are very excited to have so many new Taiwanese readers- welcome!