Minaudière
Judith Leiber
1990-92
Museum Purchase
2005.5.62A
The name Judith Leiber is synonymous with small, bejeweled evening bags called minaudières. Small by design, a minaudière is meant to be carried easily in the hand, containing only a few essential items. In Leiber's world, the essentials are a handkerchief, a lipstick and a one hundred dollar bill. Our minaudière, designed in the shape of three books held together with a buckled strap, is only about 3 inches tall and 5 inches long.