Once a bag is too small to be useful, its entire job becomes visual, which frees a designer from every practical constraint. That is why the small end of any accessory range is where the most interesting work happens, and why the crystal eagle hardware this brand is known for appears most densely here. A micro crossbody is essentially a piece of jewellery with a strap. The category grew out of the 2010s phone-and-card culture, where nobody needed to carry anything else and a bag became purely decorative.

Micro crossbodies and camera-shaped bags are the smallest pieces and the most jewellery-like. Mini bags add just enough volume to be practical for an evening. Quilted finishes appear across the range and are the most forgiving in daily use. Crystal eagle hardware is the recurring device that identifies a kurt geiger purse from across a room, and the plainer finishes are there for anyone who wants the shape without the announcement.

Check internal dimensions against your actual phone before buying anything described as micro, because phone sizes have grown and bag sizes have not. Thin chain straps dig into a shoulder within an hour, which is fine for an evening and not for a day. Crystal settings on small hardware are more exposed than on a large bag and will lose stones faster. Quilted synthetic and quilted leather look similar in photographs and age completely differently. If you take one thing away, measure your phone against the internal dimension before anything else.