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7 of the best (and biggest) beach bags for summer

Cover-ups and espadrilles may be essential summer kit, but your real best beach friend is a sturdy, stylish and magically expanding basket bag. But you don’t just have to take our word for it, oversized hold-alls were a hot topic on the catwalk for spring-summer ‘23, with everyone from Chanel to Jil Sander to Loewe with their own take on this key extra. Here are seven woven wonders to choose from.

Basket bags as seen on MaxMara spring-summer 23 runway show
Canvas-trimmed raffia tote, €850, Loewe at net-a-porter.com
Le Beach Bag, €295, Zadig&Voltaire
Embroidered-logo basket tote bag, €590, Marni at farfetch.com
Leather trimmed straw tote, €89, &otherstories
Leather-trimmed basket bag, €79, Cos
Woven tote bag, €55, Marks&Spencer
Raid woven tote, €175, Weekend MaxMara at Brown Thomas