Category Archives: Design

A Fashion Revolution?

Next week is Fashion Revolution week. Did you know? Fashion Revolution is a not-for-profit organisation set up in response to the 2013 Rana Plaza factory disaster in Bangladesh. With followers worldwide, the organisation seeks to encourage everyone to ask ‘Who Made My Clothes?’ Ethical Fashion It’s about time I shouted about my fabulous workshop in…

Purses for The Lady

If you happen to read The Lady magazine, you might have seen my designs featured there in the last few weeks. It was great to see such amazing women on the covers too. The first week featured Alison Steadman, then Francesca Annis and out today, the star of the new issue is Dame Helen Mirren….

Spingtime Handbags

The daffodils are out so it’s time to get spring-like with a bold new bag. Yellow is a fabulous uplifting colour and is sure to bring a smile to your face. Yellow for Spring Left to right: Yellow Patty medium shopper, Polly pockets tote, Lucia small hobo and the yellow handbag organiser. If you need…

Roses Are Red, or Pink

Roses are red, they wilt after a day but gorgeous handbags are here to STAY!!   What will you give your Valentine? Raspberry leather large sporty shoulder bag, £68 Pink handbag keyring £11, holds several coins and Pink heart keyring £8.50 Lucia handbag with matching purse, £48 Gina mini shoulder bag in super soft kid leather, £75 Pink…

My Favourite Bond Street Window: Handbags & Scarves

The London shop windows always look fabulous and many really pull out the stops at this time of year. Bond Street is the ‘posh’ shopping street in the West End. Most of the designer shops are there and this window at Hermes is my absolute favourite this year. Standing back to try and get the…

Travellers: A Comparison of Passport Cover Wallets

I saw this article in Conde Nast Traveller magazine on my way back from India recently so I just had to photograph it and make a product comparison to my designs for travel documents. The magazine is comparing mostly passport covers: Louis Vuitton monogram passport cover at £410 against Bottega Veneta for £215, Dunhill at…

Postcard from India

I’m in Chennai and the surrounding area this week, visting the fabulous rural workshop that make all my designs for me. Here’s one of my team of lovely leathermaking ladies. Far left is Pramilla, the workshop manager and everyone else does various things from cutting to embossing, sewing to finishing, cleaning and office work. It…

Annie Purse: First Impressions of a New Design

Here are the first impressions of our new Annie purse design by 2 independent reviewers, Melanie Bundock and Maureen Sharphouse. Melanie and Maureen were sent 5 questions to answer after receiving their purse for review. Q 1. We used a courier with a timed prediction service for your delivery. Did you need to change your…

What’s your Ideal Purse?

Everyone’s ideal purse is different – some like a simple coin holder and use a seperate wallet for cards, others want to be able to fit the kitchen sink in theirs 🙂 I know I can’t please everyone but I try! I’ve recently designed 2 new purses, so here’s a little about them. Bertie The…

Mango Ellie: designed with dots

Introducing the Ellie medium tote bag in our fabulous mango leather. I really love the blue and white dotty lining inside this one and it’s got our usual zip pocket, phone and purse pockets and key clip. It’s almost better on the inside than on the outside! The Ellie bag also comes in black and…

Category Archives: Design

A Fashion Revolution?

Next week is Fashion Revolution week. Did you know? Fashion Revolution is a not-for-profit organisation set up in response to the 2013 Rana Plaza factory disaster in Bangladesh. With followers worldwide, the organisation seeks to encourage everyone to ask ‘Who Made My Clothes?’ Ethical Fashion It’s about time I shouted about my fabulous workshop in…

Purses for The Lady

If you happen to read The Lady magazine, you might have seen my designs featured there in the last few weeks. It was great to see such amazing women on the covers too. The first week featured Alison Steadman, then Francesca Annis and out today, the star of the new issue is Dame Helen Mirren….

Spingtime Handbags

The daffodils are out so it’s time to get spring-like with a bold new bag. Yellow is a fabulous uplifting colour and is sure to bring a smile to your face. Yellow for Spring Left to right: Yellow Patty medium shopper, Polly pockets tote, Lucia small hobo and the yellow handbag organiser. If you need…

Roses Are Red, or Pink

Roses are red, they wilt after a day but gorgeous handbags are here to STAY!!   What will you give your Valentine? Raspberry leather large sporty shoulder bag, £68 Pink handbag keyring £11, holds several coins and Pink heart keyring £8.50 Lucia handbag with matching purse, £48 Gina mini shoulder bag in super soft kid leather, £75 Pink…

My Favourite Bond Street Window: Handbags & Scarves

The London shop windows always look fabulous and many really pull out the stops at this time of year. Bond Street is the ‘posh’ shopping street in the West End. Most of the designer shops are there and this window at Hermes is my absolute favourite this year. Standing back to try and get the…

Travellers: A Comparison of Passport Cover Wallets

I saw this article in Conde Nast Traveller magazine on my way back from India recently so I just had to photograph it and make a product comparison to my designs for travel documents. The magazine is comparing mostly passport covers: Louis Vuitton monogram passport cover at £410 against Bottega Veneta for £215, Dunhill at…

Postcard from India

I’m in Chennai and the surrounding area this week, visting the fabulous rural workshop that make all my designs for me. Here’s one of my team of lovely leathermaking ladies. Far left is Pramilla, the workshop manager and everyone else does various things from cutting to embossing, sewing to finishing, cleaning and office work. It…

Annie Purse: First Impressions of a New Design

Here are the first impressions of our new Annie purse design by 2 independent reviewers, Melanie Bundock and Maureen Sharphouse. Melanie and Maureen were sent 5 questions to answer after receiving their purse for review. Q 1. We used a courier with a timed prediction service for your delivery. Did you need to change your…

What’s your Ideal Purse?

Everyone’s ideal purse is different – some like a simple coin holder and use a seperate wallet for cards, others want to be able to fit the kitchen sink in theirs 🙂 I know I can’t please everyone but I try! I’ve recently designed 2 new purses, so here’s a little about them. Bertie The…

Mango Ellie: designed with dots

Introducing the Ellie medium tote bag in our fabulous mango leather. I really love the blue and white dotty lining inside this one and it’s got our usual zip pocket, phone and purse pockets and key clip. It’s almost better on the inside than on the outside! The Ellie bag also comes in black and…