Authentic Gucci Beauty Pink Canvas Pouch with Flora Print Mirror — Gold Snap, Brand New

Gucci’s Flora was drawn in 1966 for Grace Kelly, who asked for a scarf and got a garden — forty-three species of flower, insect and berry, hand-painted by Vittorio Accornero. Sixty years on it remains the house’s most quietly confident asset: a pattern that needs no logo to be identified.

The mirror is where it lands here, and it is the reason to want this. The whole back face is given over to the print at full saturation — red lilies, blue bellflowers, yellow daisies, purple periwinkle against cream — with GUCCI beauty set small in the centre. Turn it over and it’s a clean, flat, unfussy mirror. Most pocket mirrors are a compact shell with a token logo. This one is a small piece of Accornero you happen to be able to check your lipstick in.

It travels in a dusty pink canvas envelope with GUCCI beauty in gold foil and a stamped gold press stud, lined in the same Flora so the print is there whether the flap is open or shut.

What to do with it. The pouch takes cards, cash and a key, so it’s the flat thing that moves between bags and doesn’t get lost in one. It holds a passport and boarding pass without folding either. It takes a phone and nothing else for an evening. The mirror lives in it or goes separately into a coat pocket — it’s thin enough that you forget it’s there until you need it, which is the entire job.

For anything smaller than a handbag it works on its own: a mirror and a card are most of what a pocket needs.

Condition

Brand new, never used. Mirror is free of scratches with the print crisp and unmarked.

Please note: beauty gift-with-purchase items are produced to different standards than Gucci’s retail accessories and may vary slightly in finish, stitching or construction.