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I’ll say something nice about Blake Lively to begin with – since her pregnancy, giving birth to James and everything else in her life, she really has been keeping a lower profile overall. Over the last year especially, it never really felt like she was in our faces on a daily level. It’s good to take a break from that kind of “celebrity lifestyle” where you’re feeding on the attention and all of that. So, good for her.

Now, the bad. Blake is still doing Preserve, her lifestyle/shopping site and she’s still shilling her one-of-a-kind (not really), artisanal crap. It really does feel like a version of Goop, especially the Goop Store. In any case, one of Blake’s latest Preserve items is the bag, seen below.

You can see the bag on Preserve here. She named this somewhat ugly bag “The James Bag,” as in she’s named it after her daughter. She worked with Sandast to create a “custom-made baby bag” in “cognac leather.” I had a similar bag (in black leather) more than a decade ago and I’m pretty sure I only paid like $20-30 for it (it was at some kind of outlet). So how much does it cost to own The James Bag? $860. For a leather bag that will hold diapers and binkies.

I’m sort of torn about this. Like, if Gwyneth Paltrow offered a custom-designed Goop baby bag, I’m sure her version would be A) cuter and B) more expensive. Like, I don’t think the “cognac” color came out correctly for this bag and the design really isn’t that cute, especially for the price. Gwyneth’s version would be grey or black and it would probably be $2000, at the low end. Out of curiosity, I just went on Goop to see if she had anything comprable. As it turns out, she has a few affordable purses, but a leather purse/briefcase type bag (like the James Bag) costs $1495. So maybe the James Bag IS affordable… in certain circles.

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Photos courtesy of WENN, Preserve.
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