Man purse got you down, Mr. Beckham?

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Simon Doonan, in his New York Observer column, writes about the hazardous edge of fashion. Not creative missteps, but the actual injuries inflicted by certain trends. For Doonan, who is Barney’s creative director, it was a man purse that got him down. Clearly, David Beckham (left) and Joel Madden (right) had better watch their backs. Literally!

Doonan says: ‘I was felled by a man-bag, a Goyard man-bag at that. It happened right before Christmas. After two or three years of lugging round my luxe accessory by the handles — à la runway — I incurred a nasty case of bicep tendinitis. Though not quite on a par with Isadora Duncan’s silk scarf/sports-car-wheel strangling — the ne plus ultra of fashion injuries — mine is a painful and immobilizing condition involving months of rehab.’

Ever been tortured by fashion? I have a pair of Christian Louboutin black satin heels that make my feet feel like POWs. I wore them to a black-tie event recently and told my husband that I would rather sleep under the table than have to walk across the ballroom to the valet stand. If I wore these shoes for a week, I would probably need to have my shins amputated.

Photo credits: Beckham, Getty Images; Madden, WireImage