TY - BOOK AU - Nemy,Enid AU - Taylor,John Bigelow AU - Leiber,Judith ED - Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) TI - Judith Leiber, the artful handbag SN - 0810935716 : AV - TT667 .N45 1995 PY - 1995/// CY - New York PB - H.N. Abrams KW - Leiber, Judith KW - Handbags KW - Exhibitions KW - Pictorial works N1 - Exhibition held at the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology N2 - Here, in a lively, anecdotal text by Enid Nemy, a feature writer for the New York Times, is the personal story of Judith Leiber--'The Bag Lady from Budapest'--spanning her roots in pre-World War II Hungary, where she was the first woman accepted into the handbag Guild, through her emigration to the United States, where, after several stints working for other handbag manufacturers, she opened her own business in 1963. Some 192 full-color photographs reveal the dazzling array of bags in all their exquisite detail ER -