Michael Kors Jet Set Travel Signature Logo Smartphone Wallet Vanilla

First: carry it alone. Vanilla wallet, phone and two cards inside, worn with a white shirt, jeans and sandals for a coffee run or a walk where a bag is a nuisance. Second: use it as the core of a bigger carry, keeping phone, cards and cash together inside a tote so you can lift the whole set out for lunch. It suits travel, evenings, festivals and any day where you are moving between bags. Fit: keep it to the card slots it has, since an overstuffed flat wallet will not close properly and the fold will deform. Care: a cream ground shows friction before dirt, so keep it away from keys and loose pens, and wipe the back face regularly rather than waiting for a visible mark.

The brand's cultural reach came through the American mainstream. Kors judged Project Runway on Bravo for five seasons until December 2012 and took the CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. Michelle Obama wore a black sleeveless Michael Kors dress for her official First Lady portrait, and Taylor Swift is a documented wearer of his designs. There is a straightforward market fact behind small goods like this too: when regulators reviewed the industry they defined the relevant market as affordable luxury handbags, with Coach and Michael Kors as direct competitors. Accessible is the operative word, and a pale logo phone wallet is the most accessible way to own a piece of this label outright.

The format is the feature. A smartphone wallet is built around the dimensions of a phone with card slots alongside, so it replaces the wallet and the small bag in one flat object that fits a coat pocket. Signature logo covers the exterior and vanilla keeps the pattern low contrast, which suits a piece held in the hand constantly, since a loud print on a small object gets tiring fast. Style code 35F8GTVW0B-0150 identifies this execution. The wear points on any wallet of this shape are predictable: the closure, which is operated several times a day, and the card slots, which stretch with use. On a cream ground add a third, the back face, which takes the friction of pockets and other bag contents.