{"id":2886,"date":"2026-06-15T10:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/fashion\/bag-of-the-month-balenciaga-le-city-bag\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:24:10","slug":"bag-of-the-month-balenciaga-le-city-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/fashion\/bag-of-the-month-balenciaga-le-city-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Bag of the Month: The Balenciaga Le City Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"px-4 md:px-8 max-w-[1100px] mx-auto\">\t<figure class=\"my-10  max-w-[560px] mx-auto\">\n\t\t<div class=\"relative  bg-stone overflow-hidden\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1000\/1333\"><img width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BALENCIAGA-FALL-26-CAMPAIGN-STILLS-IMAGE-4.jpg\" class=\"absolute inset-0 size-full object-cover\" alt=\"Sarah Pidgeon carries the Balenciaga Le City Bag.\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1024px) 960px, 100vw\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BALENCIAGA-FALL-26-CAMPAIGN-STILLS-IMAGE-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BALENCIAGA-FALL-26-CAMPAIGN-STILLS-IMAGE-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BALENCIAGA-FALL-26-CAMPAIGN-STILLS-IMAGE-4-768x1024.jpg 768w\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"caption mt-2 flex justify-between gap-4\">\n\t\t\t<span>Sarah Pidgeon carries the Balenciaga Le City Bag.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">It can be easy to default to raffia, woven straw, cotton, or canvas during the summer months. But sometimes, summer in the city needs something a little more substantial. For that, we look to the Balenciaga Le City bag. The reliable bag\u2013rendered in lambskin, waxed suede, goatskin, and denim\u2013exudes the right amount of grunge; its original idea by former creative director Nicolas Ghesqui\u00e8re in 2001 was to create a motorcycle bag with a slouchy silhouette and distinct hardware. In the last two decades, Le City bag has achieved It-bag status, carried by a generation of It-girls, including Kate and Ashley Olsen, Nicole Richie, Sienna Miller, Paris Hilton, and the Kardashians.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, Balenciaga\u2019s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli celebrates a new crop of It-girls who are carrying the iconic bag, with a dedicated campaign directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Celine Song. Three one-minute films, shot entirely in Manhattan, sees American actress Sarah Pidgeon\u2013known for her breakout role in portraying Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy in Connor Hine\u2019s FX\/Hulu drama series <i>Love Story<\/i> (2026)\u2013carrying Balenciaga\u2019s versatile Le City bag. Piccioli even creates a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/keeppprolling\/\">burner account<\/a> to show dedicated behind-the-scenes content from the campaign.<\/p>\n<div class=\"px-4 md:px-8 max-w-[1100px] mx-auto\">\t<figure class=\"my-10  \">\n\t\t<div class=\"relative  bg-stone overflow-hidden\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1080\/720\"><img width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/A-film-within-a-film.Taken-behind-the-scenes-of-the-@balenciaga-campaign-A-New-York-Minute-dire.jpg\" class=\"absolute inset-0 size-full object-cover\" alt=\"Sarah Pidgeon on the set of Balenciaga\u2019s latest campaign, A New York Minute.\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1024px) 960px, 100vw\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/A-film-within-a-film.Taken-behind-the-scenes-of-the-@balenciaga-campaign-A-New-York-Minute-dire.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/A-film-within-a-film.Taken-behind-the-scenes-of-the-@balenciaga-campaign-A-New-York-Minute-dire-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/A-film-within-a-film.Taken-behind-the-scenes-of-the-@balenciaga-campaign-A-New-York-Minute-dire-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/A-film-within-a-film.Taken-behind-the-scenes-of-the-@balenciaga-campaign-A-New-York-Minute-dire-768x512.jpg 768w\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"caption mt-2 flex justify-between gap-4\">\n\t\t\t<span>Sarah Pidgeon on the set of Balenciaga\u2019s latest campaign, A New York Minute.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch Balenciaga\u2019s latest campaign, A New York Minute, below.<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"bz-embed\"><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WQ8pqVq92_M?si=sbbha6p7HGVnnVip\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Pidgeon walks the streets of New York with the Balenciaga Le City Bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","bz_kicker":"","bz_opener":"bleed","bz_photographer":"","bz_hero_caption":"","bz_hero_credit":"","bz_hero_clip":0,"bz_inset":0,"bz_tile_image":0,"bz_clip":0,"bz_tile_dek":"","bz_reading_time":"","bz_duration":"","bz_feature_small":0,"bz_feature_medium":0,"bz_feature_quote":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,1172,255,1173,1174,1163,397,1175],"bz_slot":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","tag-balenciaga","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-bts","tag-celine-song","tag-city-bag","tag-new-york","tag-pierpaolo-piccioli","tag-sarah-pidgeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"bz_slot","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bz_slot?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}