I can’t let the letter ‘O’ pass without mentioning the Olympics. Here we are in the middle of the Rio games 2016 and team GB is doing brilliantly. I particularly like watching the cycling (no surprise there, since I’ve mentioned cycling quite a lot here on my blog!) Today, I thought about the colours of the Olympic…
Not a #BagsOnTour post today but a photo of a bag I saw when I was last in New York. This photo of one of the best window displays I’ve seen, was at Bloomingdales in August 2013. New York Just one handbag but the impact is great. I loved this Louis Vuitton window at Bloomingdales…
Madras is the old name for Chennai, the city in India that’s nearest to my workshop. I travel there often and as I buy a lot of fabric there, I called one collection ‘Madras’. Here’s a photo of the blue Madras handheld I took at dawn a few years ago in Doha. Montpellier My thanks…
I’m up to L now and there’s a lot to share today. First of all, August 13th is International Left Handers Day! Hello to all lefties from a fellow leftie 🙂 The Louvre One of my favourite photos that I’ve received this year, is this one of the orange Nicky bag (a colour from a…
Luckily my designs have done a lot of travelling, so I’m not stuck on K! A Visit To Kuala Lumpur As part of his world tour, Trekker the manbag visited Kuala Lumpur a few years ago. Here’s Trekker at the Petronas Towers with his companion, the stone Patty shopper. And near the top, with his owner. Hi Dad 🙂…
The A-Z of handbags – travelling and otherwise, continues today with J. Jamaica Inn This is a few years old now. It’s one of my original designs for the Atlanta tote, when I made it in several colours of a lovely rich heavy weave nylon fabric with leather trims and contrast stitch and lining. This…
I visit my workshop in rural India as often as I can, usually 3 or 4 times a year and every time I go there, I can’t resist taking photos. Everything seems to bright and colourful. It’s nearly always sunny and sometimes it’s super hot and humid. I love to visit the street fabric market…
More from my A-Z of travelling handbags today. H is for Hollyhocks Last year my hollyhocks grew to an amazing 8 or 9 feet! I had to get the scale of them by having a #BagsOnTour photo taken 🙂 H is for Hollywood Visiting a cafe overlooking the Hollywood hills and THE sign in the…
The A-Z of my designs and travelling handbags continues today with all things that start with the letter G. Guggenheim Me and my turquoise Martha shopper outside the Guggenheim museum in New York on a hot August day in 2013. Green Things Just a few current designs that come in green. Maia purse, mini handbag…
The Fashion Revolution which is quietly going on in the world, only came to my attention earlier this year. I wanted to tell the world about my fabulous workshop in rural India and it was only when I started looking into what other design companies were doing in terms of producing ethically, that I came across…
I can’t let the letter ‘O’ pass without mentioning the Olympics. Here we are in the middle of the Rio games 2016 and team GB is doing brilliantly. I particularly like watching the cycling (no surprise there, since I’ve mentioned cycling quite a lot here on my blog!) Today, I thought about the colours of the Olympic…
Not a #BagsOnTour post today but a photo of a bag I saw when I was last in New York. This photo of one of the best window displays I’ve seen, was at Bloomingdales in August 2013. New York Just one handbag but the impact is great. I loved this Louis Vuitton window at Bloomingdales…
Madras is the old name for Chennai, the city in India that’s nearest to my workshop. I travel there often and as I buy a lot of fabric there, I called one collection ‘Madras’. Here’s a photo of the blue Madras handheld I took at dawn a few years ago in Doha. Montpellier My thanks…
I’m up to L now and there’s a lot to share today. First of all, August 13th is International Left Handers Day! Hello to all lefties from a fellow leftie 🙂 The Louvre One of my favourite photos that I’ve received this year, is this one of the orange Nicky bag (a colour from a…
Luckily my designs have done a lot of travelling, so I’m not stuck on K! A Visit To Kuala Lumpur As part of his world tour, Trekker the manbag visited Kuala Lumpur a few years ago. Here’s Trekker at the Petronas Towers with his companion, the stone Patty shopper. And near the top, with his owner. Hi Dad 🙂…
The A-Z of handbags – travelling and otherwise, continues today with J. Jamaica Inn This is a few years old now. It’s one of my original designs for the Atlanta tote, when I made it in several colours of a lovely rich heavy weave nylon fabric with leather trims and contrast stitch and lining. This…
I visit my workshop in rural India as often as I can, usually 3 or 4 times a year and every time I go there, I can’t resist taking photos. Everything seems to bright and colourful. It’s nearly always sunny and sometimes it’s super hot and humid. I love to visit the street fabric market…
More from my A-Z of travelling handbags today. H is for Hollyhocks Last year my hollyhocks grew to an amazing 8 or 9 feet! I had to get the scale of them by having a #BagsOnTour photo taken 🙂 H is for Hollywood Visiting a cafe overlooking the Hollywood hills and THE sign in the…
The A-Z of my designs and travelling handbags continues today with all things that start with the letter G. Guggenheim Me and my turquoise Martha shopper outside the Guggenheim museum in New York on a hot August day in 2013. Green Things Just a few current designs that come in green. Maia purse, mini handbag…
The Fashion Revolution which is quietly going on in the world, only came to my attention earlier this year. I wanted to tell the world about my fabulous workshop in rural India and it was only when I started looking into what other design companies were doing in terms of producing ethically, that I came across…
