Satchel Crush: How-To Style Yours

With American diner style restaurants and thrift boutiques popping up all over the UK, not to mention Instagram - social media’s hottest trend, vintage revival is everywhere at the moment. And what better way to champion the vintage trend than with a satchel?

Since its humble beginnings as a schoolboy’s textbook holder, the satchel has grown to become a worldwide trend and staple piece in the bag collections of celebrities and fashionistas alike.

At Nica, we are also quite fond of satchels and have created our very own vintage-inspired collection combining pretty prints, intricate detailing and covetable colours. Let’s take a peek at the current collection and how to style the trend: 

The Classic

Introducing our best-selling Alicia satchel in classic tan, beautifully finished with cut out detailing, a floral printed interior and a simple twist lock. This boho bag was even featured in Joss Stone’s new music video, The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind), and you can read more about our Joss Stone collaboration here. 

Style in the day with a printed tea dress, cut out detail flats and a flower hair accessory. The Alicia also comes in bone white, midnight black and turquoise, which one will you choose?

The Agyness

This year’s Great Gatsby film topped the style charts, with main character Daisy donning mauve Charleston dresses, silver accented jewels and embellished hair pieces. Channel vintage glamour with this Agyness mink pink satchel featuring elegant bow detailing and a branded rose gold charm.

Embrace the 1920’s look and style your satchel with a tassled flapper dress, sequinned finger gloves and the prettiest shoes you can find.

The Print

With a spotted bird print design and bicycle motif, the printed satchel is a playful twist on the classic style and perfect for modern girls who want to embrace the trend without looking like they've stumbled into a time warp. Style this day wear accessory with skinny jeans, brogues and a chunky cable knit jumper.

We hope that this selection of satchel bags has given you some style inspiration – click here to view our full collection. 

Look how well our Alicia satchel fits in with Joss Stone's boho infused style. How would you wear yours? 

Nica Team

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Nica says hello to Topshop in Bath!

Nica is expanding her friendship with Topshop and has just launched her new SS11 collection in the Bath store. Heading down for the big launch we did a spot of sight-seeing in Bath and saw loads of our lovely Nica fans sporting their favourite bags throughout the town! A sign that our little concession is set to do very well in beautiful Bath!



Windows full of treats!



Satchels! Satchels! Satchels!



With its own built-in section and display wall, the Nica collection looked absolutely fabulous!  It showed off our best-selling ranges and was satchels galore with Alicia, Martha and Sonny looking beautiful! Topshop and online exclusive ‘Bobby’ proved to be a firm favourite with the girls of Bath, thanks to its stunning detailing and boho shape – the perfect summer accessory!



Looking amazing in store!

Topshop and online exclusive - 'Bobby' £69

'Martha' Medium Satchel - £49

'Alicia' Satchel £49



'Sonny' Satchel £49 

If you get a chance, pop down and say hello to the new Nica Topshop team!



Nica hearts Summer - High Summer Collection

It seems the sun is almost ready to come out and play again! Lighter mornings and evenings have got us girls at Nica HQ all excited about the return of pretty summer dresses, pumps and summer accessories! To spread the summer love we thought we would give you an exclusive insight and trend report on our amazing High Summer collection, which is due to arrive online and in stores at the end of March. A capsule collection, Nica’s HS bags are designed to capture the fun and joy that comes with the summer sunshine.

Doing what she does best, Nica has captured the essence of vintage nostalgia in this collection with structured satchels, totes and bowler bags, as well as cute clutches and soft slouchy summer essentials. Featuring a mainly neutral colour palette of cream, beige, tan and brown the collection is the perfect partner to a vibrant summer tea-dress. Never one to shy away from colour though, Nica has added vibrant highlights of coral, orange and sage green into the collection, making it perfectly on trend for this season’s must have colour-blocking look.

The inspiring details behind the collection

Bold graphics, weaved detailing, watercolour effect prints and, of course, Nica charms make the collection particularly striking. So transform yourself to a bygone era of vintage elegance and carefree fun; think pretty pattern dresses, delicate pumps, classic sunglasses and a Nica bag to complete the look!

Available at the end of March, be sure to join our loyal friends and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to be the first to hear about Nica’s high summer arrival!



Caroline Satchel £39







Jasmine Shopper £39