Unless you are a serious fashionista that keeps track of what all the celebrities wear on a daily basis, accessorizing your wardrobe with the season’s latest handbag styles can be daunting for most women.

Animal Print? Real Fur? Hermes? Or will it be Marc Jacobs? Where do you start?

Rafe Totengco, in The Handbook of Style, warns women to “think carefully when investing in a handbag… major bags in your wardrobe should fall into five style categories.”

THE HOBO
THE CLUTCH
THE TOP HANDLE
THE SHOULDER BAG
THE TOTE

Here are some designer handbags to watch out for - Winter 2006 to Spring 2007.

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