We’re calling it the North West and Blue Ivy Carter impact. eBay simply dropped their Watchlist Trend Report, which spotlights a few of the retailer’s largest pattern predictions for the months forward, and a beloved Y2K bag now equally beloved by Gen Z and Gen Alpha—together with each West and Carter!—made the listing.
It most likely comes as no shock that Balenciaga’s iconic Le Metropolis tote bag landed on the Watchlist; in keeping with eBay, year-over-year international searches for the bag, which got here out in 2001, grew greater than 50 p.c, between March 2025 and March 2026. Each Carter and West have worn versions of the bag in latest months, together with Carter’s denim version at the Super Bowl and West carrying one which simply so occurred to match her brilliant teal blue hair. Do you suppose they raided their well-known mother’s closets for classic 2000s luggage? The Le Metropolis was a celeb important again within the day, so we’re fairly certain each Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian owned a Le Metropolis or two in some unspecified time in the future up to now! (Truly, we know Kardashian did!)
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The Le Metropolis bag seems underneath eBay’s pattern of “Barely Unsettled,” which is described as “the gray space between unfinished and full with clothes that seems shifted, interrupted, or imperfect” and “design that shifts and skews, styled to look undone.” (Levi’s bootcut denims, asymmetrical silhouettes, and Isabel Marant wedges—another Carter fave!—additionally made this part of the Watchlist.) The bag, with its plethora of zippers and leather-based particulars, does have an undone, edgy-cool look and will get higher with time and utilization. There are many Le Metropolis luggage on eBay and websites just like the RealReal in tons of colours, although costs have gone up in recent times. We expect this denim-blue bag is extremely stylish, and you actually cannot go fallacious with classic black. So in the event you’re out there for a brand new bag, possibly have a look at an previous bag as an alternative!
