Fashion Look of the Day Looks Like Supermodels Are Making My Middle School Bag of Choice a 2022 Trend Welcome to Look of the Day, where we feature the single most conversation-worthy celebrity outfit we can't stop thinking about. Love it, leave it, or shop the whole thing below. By Tara Gonzalez Tara Gonzalez Instagram Website Tara Maria Gonzalez has been a fashion writer and editor for more than 6 years. She was most recently the style commerce writer at InStyle, where she covered celebrity looks, fashion week trends, and everything you don’t need but probably should buy. InStyle's editorial guidelines Published on February 11, 2022 @ 03:48PM Pin Share Tweet Email We independently evaluate all recommended products and services. If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Learn more. Bella Hadid. Photo: Gotham/GC Images Only Bella Hadid could make me rationalize budgeting for a $10,000 Chanel messenger bag covered in faux graffiti. I realize that this is ridiculous, yet every time I see a photo of her wearing it — most recently in New York for fashion week — I find myself in an eBay blackhole for hours, trying to see if someone is selling it for a price I can "afford." Like that's ever going to happen: The covetable bag is a limited edition from Karl Lagerfeld's 2015 runway collection, after all. But leave it to Hadid to make me pine for my middle school-era messenger bags in 2022. Messenger bags are peak early 2000s fashion to me. I'll never forget begging my mom for a Juicy Couture one in seventh grade, and when she caved, I proceeded to wear it to death. And then suddenly, out of nowhere, this bag that I made my entire personality seemed completely undesirable — that's trends for you. I've never even looked the same way at messenger bags since, until now. The frayed tweed trim, funky logo pin adornments, and colorful graffiti prints make me want to do unspeakable things to afford them. This bag is everything middle school me would have wanted. If there were a time for messenger bags to make a full-blown resurgence, it would be now, when big bags are seriously trending again and Y2K-era fashion is everywhere you look. (Just look at how the bucket bag is back with a vengeance.) Thankfully, most messenger bags, even ones by brands like Tory Burch, Coach, and Kate Spade, cost thousands of dollars less than Hadid's. There's even a classic Timbuk2 style at Nordstrom for just $39, so I can stop doing mental gymnastics trying to justify $10,000 for a piece of canvas. I'm still holding out hope that I'll one day be able to own that bag with the big graffitied interlocking C logo front and center, but in the meantime, I'm not missing out on a supermodel-approved bag trend that reminds me of a simpler time. Shop messenger bags at Nordstrom, Coach, and Tory Burch below. Get the Look: Timbuk2 Micro Classic Messenger BagShop now: $39; nordstrom.com Kate Spade The Little Better Sam Nylon Messenger BagShop now: $228; nordstrom.com Tory Burch Small Nylon Messenger BagShop now: $278; nordstrom.com Kate Spade Roulette Library Plaid Messenger BagShop now: $137 (Originally $228); nordstrom.com Tory Burch Nylon Small MessengerShop now: $278; toryburch.com Acne Studios Akila Face Plaque Ripstop Crossbody BagShop now: $160; nordstrom.com Clare V. Moyen Woven Leather Convertible Messenger BagShop now: $475; nordstrom.com Coach Restored Metropolitan Soft Messenger In Signature CanvasShop now: $325; coach.com Tory Burch Virginia Printed Recycled Nylon Small Messenger BagShop now: $278; nordstrom.com Bottega Veneta Intrecciato Leather Messenger BagShop now: $1,890; nordstrom.com Rag & Bone Small Field Messenger BagShop now: $495; nordstrom.com Pleats Please Issey Miyake BagShop now: $745; nordstrom.com