Carolyn Murphy and Shinola Launch the Perfect Summer Tote

Carolyn Murphy and Shinola Launch the Perfect Summer Tote Meet Lois. Model-actress Carolyn Murphy and made-in-Detroit success story Shinola have teamed up on the perfect summer tote, launched Tuesday night with a dinner soiree at Gjelina in Venice. Named after Murphy’s late grandmother Lois, the canvas tote with red leather trim ($495) is designed to take you everywhere from the office to the beach, she explained, demonstrating how the bag can be worn multiple ways, with the sides folded in or out There are also matching packing pouches on offer. “My Nana, whom I was inspired by to create the bag, we’d always do these road trips in the Oldsmobile from [Washington], D.C She’d put her bottle of vodka, her carrots, her hard-boiled eggs and her Scrabble in this big bag, and the goal was to get to our annual reunion in Nags Head, [North Carolina].

I always remember that tote,” Murphy recalled. It may . More