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Soft Leather Cashmere The Row Designer Bag

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Published on: November 5, 2026

Soft Margaux vs the Original Margaux at The Row, Spec by Spec

Take the difference between the Margaux and the Soft Margaux to five people and five confident, contradictory answers come back. That confusion makes sense, since the two bags share a name, a silhouette and a set of signature buckles, and since the shopping situation around them shifted sharply in 2025. What follows is a specification-led comparison rather than an impression-led one: measurements, materials, closures, linings and observed prices, set against each other line by line. All of it comes from what the brand states on its own product pages and from prices observed in the market in 2026 — observations, not an official price list. Any figure that is not reliably documented is flagged as such rather than guessed, as the Margaux is the single most misquoted bag in the label’s catalogue. The short version: the Soft is neither a cheaper nor a lazier Margaux, it is the more equipped bag. The full version is below.

Two Bags, One Name, One Complicated Year

The original Margaux is the flagship the brand built its handbag reputation on, an unlined-looking tote whose structure derives from leather thickness and panel shaping rather than from stiffeners. Related but specified separately, the Soft Margaux arrived with its own construction details and its own product pages. Over the course of 2025 the original was pulled from third-party retailers, and the brand’s own webstore now shows the Soft Margaux and the Margaux Shoulder rather than the original. Reports of its discontinuation are widespread, but no official confirmation has ever come from the brand, and that difference counts rather than being pedantry when you are setting a price on the secondary market. In practice this means the Soft Margaux is the version available new, while the original has become a resale proposition. Anyone comparing the two is really comparing a designer fashion current product with an archive one, and that changes how the specification differences should be weighted.

The Spec Sheet, Side by Side

Isolating the features the Soft version adds and checking them one at a time is the cleanest way to see the difference. Five features in all, and collectively they shift how the bag behaves in daily use rather than how it reads from across a street. Protective metal feet lift the base away from the ground. An interior toggle closure supplies the closing mechanism the open-top shape otherwise lacks. Belted side gussets allow the profile to be cinched in or let out. A deep cavity becomes something organised once a zip pocket and card slots are added. The table below sets these out alongside the observed 2026 figures for the versions sold new.

Specification detail	Soft Margaux 10 and 12	Original Margaux
Protective metal feet	Present	Absent from the specification
Interior toggle closure	Fitted	Not part of the specification
Belted side gussets	Included	Not specified
Zip pocket	Present on the 12	Not specified
Card slots	One on the 10 and two on the 12	Not in the specification
Observed 2026 pricing	$3,650 and $4,350	Available on resale only

Materials and Linings

Stated as 100 percent calfskin in a matte grained finish, the Soft Margaux 10 and 12 are both lined in cotton herringbone. That choice of lining reveals a great deal about the brand’s priorities, since a cotton herringbone interior is a textile decision rather than a branding one, and it holds shape without the plastic feel of a coated logo jacquard. The Margaux Shoulder 12 goes a step further, lining the bag in 100 percent lambskin — softer, more easily marked and considerably more expensive to work with. Across the wider family the exterior materials include grained calfskin, saddle calfskin, suede, canvas paired with leather, and nylon, so a Margaux is not automatically a smooth-leather bag. Made in Italy is stated on the brand’s own product pages for the Soft Margaux 10 and 12, and for the Margaux Shoulder 12 as well. Suede and canvas versions seem different in the hand and, more importantly, behave differently on resale.

Buckles, Fittings and Handles

On the Soft Margaux the hardware is palladium-plated, matte rather than polished in finish, matching the rest of the collection. Any Margaux is marked by its pair of adjustable side buckles, and on genuine examples those buckles carry engraving, as do the base feet where feet are fitted. Those buckles do real work rather than decoration: they are what lets the belted gussets change the width of the bag. The Soft Margaux 10 and 12 both run a 5-inch handle drop, which is a hand-carry or crook-of-the-elbow measurement rather than a shoulder one, and both include a removable shoulder strap to cover the difference. Elongated tubular handles and narrowed gusseted side panels replace the arrangement entirely on the Margaux Shoulder 12, which is designed from the start to sit under the arm. If you want one The Row bag that works hands-free without a strap, the Shoulder is the answer rather than the Soft.

What the Size Numbers Actually Tell You

The name’s number gives nothing more than the bag’s width in inches, and that makes the family easier to navigate than most. The Soft Margaux 10 arrives at 10 x 7 x 7.5 inches, genuinely compact with an unusual amount of depth for the footprint. The Soft Margaux 12 measures 12 x 9 x 7.5 inches, keeping the same depth while gaining two inches of width and two of height, and that is the size most buyers settle on for daily use. At 14.75 x 9 x 5 inches, the Margaux Shoulder 12 is the widest and shallowest of the three despite the 12 in its name, because that number refers to the bag’s stated size and not its maximum external span. A Soft Margaux 15 circulates as well, and a leather-and-canvas Margaux 17 has been carried by Selfridges. No verifiable retail price exists for either, so read any figure quoted for them as an asking price and not a documented one.

What Each Costs, and What Resale Is Doing

In observed 2026 market pricing the Soft Margaux 10 is $3,650 and the Soft Margaux 12 is $4,350, while the Margaux Shoulder 12 is $4,900. That places the entire family in the collection’s top band, alongside the India and Agnes top handles and the Marlo totes. The secondary market picture is an unusual one: the Rebag CLAIR 2025 report recorded the Margaux Tote at 107 percent value retention, inside a brand-level figure of 97 percent that lifted the label into the report’s unicorn tier for the first time. Softer secondary figures point the same way, with the Margaux reported to sell frequently at around 40 percent above retail, Fashionphile resale reported up roughly 44 percent year on year, and The RealReal reporting pre-owned Margaux sales averaging about 15 percent over original retail. One major resale authenticator places new Margaux bags in the $5,000 to $9,000 range, and that is a useful sanity check, because anything advertised in the hundreds is almost certainly counterfeit. None of this is investment advice, and it is worth keeping in mind that canvas, nylon and seasonal-colour versions discount rather than appreciate.

Choosing Your Version

Want the bag you can really purchase new, with a warranty of availability and the fuller specification? The Soft Margaux is the straightforward answer. Pick the 10 for light carrying and the shape at its most sculptural; pick the 12 for a working bag, as the second card slot and the zip pocket only arrive at that size. Pick the Margaux Shoulder 12 when the arm rather than the hand is how you carry, as its tubular handles and narrowed gussets exist for that purpose. Go looking for the original on resale only if you specifically want the archive version and you are comfortable buying without metal feet, a toggle closure or interior organisation. Whatever you pick, note that the brand operates no public authenticity coding system at all, so verification rests on stitching, hand-painted edges, stamp placement and the weight and finish of the hardware. Buy black or neutral calfskin if resale matters to you, and buy whatever colour you like if it does not.

Decide hand-carry or shoulder first, because that splits Soft from Shoulder immediately
Then settle size, with the 10 for occasion carry and the 12 for daily use
Then material, bearing in mind that canvas and seasonal colours discount on resale
Only after that should an original on the secondary market be considered