Shoulder Strap Drop 20.25" Height 7" Width 10.75" Depth 1.75" Notes from the Curator The Rajah medium shoulder bag debuted in Gucci's Fall/Winter 2018 collection, conceived during Alessandro Michele's transformative tenure at the house. The front hardware marries the Interlocking G and the Horsebit—two of the house's most enduring equestrian-born emblems—in a single mixed-metal clasp, an experiment that divided early critics yet anchored the line's identity. The crystal-set tiger head draws directly from a 1940s brooch by Hattie Carnegie, the legendary New York designer and jeweller whose archive Michele studied closely. Tigers recur throughout Michele's work as symbols of strength in Asian iconography and as a nod to his father's nature-centric philosophy, woven into Gucci's own 1960s and 1970s flora and fauna motifs. The vitello palmellato—a fine-grained calfskin with a subtle cross-hatch texture—lends structured durability to the medium frame, while the dual-length chain permits the bag to shift from doubled hand-carry to full crossbody wear. Few Gucci bags of the past decade have compressed so many house codes into a single flap, making the Rajah a distillation of Michele's archival instinct.