FLOAT 100 · Handbags · No. 62
Bottega Veneta Andiamo Medium
Matthieu Blazy opened his Spring/Summer 2023 show with a woven tote fastened by a brass knot and named it after the Italian for 'let's go,' and the Andiamo went on to outlast the hype cycle that swallowed most viral bags.
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- Bottega Veneta, Vicenza, Italy, founded 1966
- Designer
- Matthieu Blazy, creative director November 2021 to December 2024
- Debut
- Spring/Summer 2023 runway, the show's opening look
- In stores
- February 7, 2023
- Name
- Italian for 'let's go'
- This entry
- Medium Andiamo in nappa intrecciato, Aloe green
- Signature
- A brass knot on sliding braided straps
- Launch sizes
- Small, medium and large
- Retail, October 2026
- $5,900 for the medium Andiamo
A weekender, shrunk to everyday
Bottega Veneta was founded in Vicenza in 1966 by Michele Taddei and Renzo Zengiaro and made its name with intrecciato, an Italian word for braided, describing strips of leather woven through slits in another piece of leather. The house slogan, introduced in a 1978 Andy Warhol advertisement, was 'When your own initials are enough.'
The Andiamo was the first major accessory of Matthieu Blazy's Spring/Summer 2023 collection. Inspired by weekender bags, it pairs a woven body with rounded corners and adjustable braided straps fastened by a metal knot, a continuation of the house's Knot family. One magazine tied its name, Italian for 'let's go,' to a post-pandemic desire to travel and to a principle the house called 'craft in motion.'
When the lights came up at the Spring/Summer 2023 show, the Andiamo was the first bag seen, in a red tucked under a model's arm; it returned in the second look in dark brown Fondant. It went on sale on Bottega Veneta's website and in stores on February 7, 2023, as Blazy's second major bag after the 2022 Kalimero, and appeared in a Summer 2023 campaign shot by Massimiliano Bomba with Kate Moss and Emma Balfour among the collaborators.
The 'Magician of Milan'
Blazy was born in Paris in 1984 and studied at La Cambre in Brussels. He worked for Raf Simons, joined Maison Margiela in 2011, moved to Celine under Phoebe Philo in 2014, and became design director of women's ready-to-wear at Calvin Klein in 2016. He joined Bottega Veneta as design director of ready-to-wear in 2020 and succeeded Daniel Lee as creative director in November 2021.
Where Lee's bags were built for buzz, one reviewer argued, Blazy used the house's long experience in craftsmanship to make bags with function in their DNA, and the Andiamo was the strongest example. His Bottega Veneta also introduced trompe-l'oeil leather 'denim' trousers and the Kalimero bag, and the critic Vanessa Friedman dubbed him the 'Magician of Milan.'
Blazy left Bottega Veneta in December 2024 to become creative director of Chanel; Louise Trotter succeeded him. The Andiamo stayed in the line and grew into a family including a clutch, an east-west version launched for Pre-Fall 2023 and a mini.
How the medium is built
The Andiamo is woven by hand in intrecciato, and launch coverage described its body as paper calf leather; current nappa versions are lambskin. The brass knot fastens the sliding braided strap, so the bag can be carried by the top handle, over the shoulder or across the body, and opening the knot releases the strap.
Inside is a feature reviewers had rarely seen: a leather divider that loosely splits the bag into two sides and slides along the strap through circular openings, carrying a zipped pocket and open pockets. A reviewer reported that the medium fits a laptop, a charger and a small umbrella, and that a 13-inch laptop slides in.
Pre-owned listings measure the medium at about 12 to 12.5 inches long, 9.5 to 10 inches high and 5 inches wide, with a handle drop of about 2.5 to 3.75 inches and a strap drop of about 17.5 inches. The Aloe example behind this entry is described as light green lambskin with a rolled leather top handle, a woven shoulder strap with a gold knot clasp, and a hanging zip pocket with patch pockets. Launch colors included Glacier, Fondant, Barolo, Travertine, Inkwell, Ice Cream and White.
A viral bag that stayed
At launch in February 2023 the small Andiamo retailed for $4,100 and the large for $7,900. About a year later a reviewer described the medium as a 'dream-$5,500 tote' that was still hard to keep on shelves. By October 2026 Bottega Veneta's U.S. site listed the medium Andiamo at $5,900.
On the pre-owned market, in October 2026 a U.S. reseller listed a black nappa medium Andiamo in excellent condition at $4,295 against an estimated retail of $5,700, about 25 percent below. The Aloe example this entry is based on had already sold.
A new classic for a new era
Most viral bags fade after their social media peak. The Andiamo, one reviewer argued, crossed over 'into the realm of the classics,' and it remains the defining bag of Blazy's three years at Bottega Veneta, the period in which the house reported EUR 1.645 billion in revenue in 2023 and EUR 1.713 billion in 2024.
It also marked a shift in tone, from the playful, oversized shapes of the Lee years to a quieter, more practical luxury in which the craft itself, a hand-woven bag closed by a sculptural knot, is the point.
The numbers
- Measured size (pre-owned listings)
- About 12 to 12.5 in long, 9.5 to 10 in high, 5 in wide
- Drops
- Handle about 2.5 to 3.75 in; strap about 17.5 in
- Material
- Hand-woven intrecciato lambskin (nappa); launch coverage cites paper calf
- Hardware
- Brass knot on sliding braided straps
- Interior
- Sliding leather divider with a zipped pocket and open pockets
- Production quantity
- Not published
Timeline
Bottega Veneta is founded in Vicenza.
Matthieu Blazy joins Bottega Veneta as design director of ready-to-wear.
Blazy is appointed creative director.
Blazy introduces the Kalimero bag.
The Andiamo goes on sale in small ($4,100), medium and large ($7,900).
An east-west Andiamo launches for Pre-Fall 2023.
A reviewer calls the medium a 'dream-$5,500 tote' still hard to keep on shelves.
Blazy leaves for Chanel; Louise Trotter succeeds him.
The medium Andiamo retails at $5,900; a pre-owned black one is listed at $4,295.
The world in 2023
Kering buys 30 percent of Valentino and acquires the fragrance house Creed.
Kering reports EUR 19.57 billion in revenue.
Bottega Veneta reports EUR 1.645 billion in revenue.
Bottega Veneta opens the Accademia Labor et Ingenium, a training school.
Kering's revenue falls to EUR 17.19 billion.
Luca de Meo becomes Kering's chief executive.
Price record
| Date | Price | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | $5,900 | Asking price, not a saleRetail price for the medium Andiamo on Bottega Veneta's U.S. site. |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $4,295 | Asking price, not a salePre-owned medium Andiamo in nappa intrecciato, Black, excellent condition, listed by a U.S. reseller. |
This is an asking price, not a sale. It is what a seller wanted on the date shown. Asking prices often sit above what buyers pay, but an ask is not a ceiling: a sale can land on either side of it. It is not a value.
By reference price, Bottega Veneta Andiamo Medium is number 38 of 100 in the handbags entries of the FLOAT 100. 19 of those 100 rest on a realized sale; the rest carry an asking price or a guide value, and each page says which. Rank within the FLOAT 100 itself (62 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.
Did you know
- The Andiamo was the very first bag seen in Blazy's Spring/Summer 2023 show.
- Its interior divider slides along the strap through circular openings.
- Opening the brass knot releases the shoulder strap.
- The design was inspired by weekender bags.
- Kate Moss was among the collaborators in the bag's launch campaign.
How this page is made
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- A realized price is a completed sale. An asking price, an estimate and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- The story
- Researched from published records and checked fact by fact. Updated Oct 3, 2026.
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