I don’t want to speak for everyone here at Fashionista, but I for one just can’t have anything to do with the reincarnation of the fanny pack. I don’t care who makes it or how much it costs. Just no. That’s it for me. And don’t even get me started on the kitten heel.

This Refinery29 story let me traipse back in time without the anger rising up inside of me, thanks to their collection of another kind of pack. Backpacks, I still love you. And we spotted you on the Louis Vuitton runway too.

The ladies at Refinery may have outgrown the sportier models of youth, but I’m not totally opposed to going old school. In fact, I did a couple of years ago while on crutches for three months. That hunter green baby I still had from college was seriously convenient. Hands-free is not a bad way to live, when you’re not using the hands on crutches, that is. Though of course I’m also now drawn to the really expensive leather one from Society for Rational Dress. Sigh.

But more importantly, what about you? Backpacks, fanny packs, no packs?

Perhaps Rick Owens’ animal clutches were just a warm up to designing accessories in jest.

The American in Paris has signed a deal with Eastpak, of junior high and hiking fame, to design a collection of fifteen bags (plus a unisex raincoat) under his denim brand, Dark Shadow.

If Raf Simons’ previous collections for Eastpak are any indication, you can expect the Rick backpacks to cost at least $100 each, making you the most subversive (yet well-packed) kid in the hallway.

At least, if high school kids even carry backpacks anymore - Do they?

We’ve been documenting the return of the 90’s (backpacks, Chloe’s OC line, crop tops) with genuine fervor lately, and we have another one to add to the list -

Stuffed animal bags.

Yesterday, we spotted an otherwise chic woman lingering outside Cafe Gitane on Mott Street. She was an otherwise normal-looking person except that she had a dog-shaped purse under her arm. Not a fuzzy wuzzy kind of pup, more like a taxidermic-looking version that we really did mistake for a real - albeit completely stiff - dog that she for some reason was carrying on her shoulder with a strap.

We had kind of a funny discussion about animal backpacks in the office not too long ago, an offshoot of a Clueless discussion. Did you used to have one? Would you wear one? What if it was a bunny, like Stella’s for LeSportsac? But we had no idea this look had taken to the streets.

Has anyone else seen this?

[Semi-related note: We went to see The Wackness yesterday, mostly because we were curious to see what MK would look like with dreads (overstatement - more like messy braids), and it was amazing, mostly because we have never missed the 90’s more than when we left our seats. Olivia Thirlby wore kinky hair and door knockers, and we have to say, it didn’t look Lily Allen so much as just what we thought “cool” was in 4th grade. Summer 2008 style inspiration?]

We haven’t considered wearing a backpack as a fashion statement since Dionne in Clueless, but since we’ve been fashion traveling to the 90’s lately, we find ourselves pondering them once again.

We know what the backpack means to many - Little kids, fifth grade field trips to Six Flags, 90210; you get the drift.

But we’ve been thinking they’d be kind of cute on the right person, as part of the right spring ensemble. Couldn’t you see a slouchy black patent version in place of the standard clutch? And bonus - we could actually bring more than just a credit card and lip gloss at night.

Kanye West proclaimed himself the first guy “with a Benz and a backpack,” (and we could totally see one hanging off Chloe Sevigny’s arm, though we’re not sure if that’s a good thing for us), and a friend of ours recently bought a red and black buffalo plaid backpack to sport around the city. Maybe not the teddy bear sac we handed down to our little cousin, and not quite the Louis Vuitton minis of Canal Street, but something in between could miraculously work…?

Though we’re still not completely sold on the look, backpacks are more practical than lugging around a hardware cluttered Marc Jacobs - and there is that whole thing about looking good if you feel good, right?

So what do you think - to two strap? Or not to two strap?

—JAZZI McGILBERT