Hedy Daikanyama
“Vintage designer bags you can actually hold: Celine Macadam, Cartier Must, Epi Vuitton, all listed online.”
Hedy's flagship, with Osaka and Fukuoka branches, run on a stated rule: not everything, only what wears well now. So it's bags first, edited hard. Celine Macadam canvas with the carriage hardware, Cartier Must de Cartier burgundy leather, Epi Louis Vuitton in saturated colours, Hermès Garden Party totes. Then a long jewellery bar of Tiffany silver and Dior CD logos.
Prices are fair for the condition: Macadam bags mostly ¥34,000 to ¥130,000, Epi around ¥100,000, Dior CD necklaces about ¥33,000. Everything is on hedy.jp, so shortlist there and ask which pieces sit in Osaka.
Brand collections
- 1980s
About fifty Macadam-canvas bags at a time, the pre-Philo house with brass carriage hardware, mostly under ¥80,000.
Must de Cartier bags in bordeaux leather and vermeil Must Tank watches, the 80s line that put Cartier in reach.
- 1990s
Epi leather in colour, the grained leather that holds its shape and hides wear better than monogram canvas.
The biggest single label: CC earrings around ¥70,000 and a rotating handful of flap and chocolate-bar bags.
- 2000s
Garden Party totes, Clipper watches and Carré 90 scarves, with Chaîne d'Ancre silver as the easy way in.
Some 170 pieces of sterling, Elsa Peretti Bean and Open Heart among them, from about ¥16,000.
