Here at The Bag Lady, we recently got the chance to speak to one of our all-time greatest handbag heroes: Jackie Cawthra, designer of the beautiful, artisan-made Belen Echandia bags.
We'd been dying to find out more about the work that goes into making the collection as high-quality and desirable as it is, and were delighted that Jackie could take time out of her busy schedule to enlighten us on the process. Read on for the interview.
TBL How long does it take to create one of your popular bag styles from start to finish?
BE: It really depends. Creating a BE bag can be a long process or an incredibly quick one in terms of actual design and production, but the real time is spent over months beforehand sketching ideas and visiting shows to see new colours and materials. In the end, nothing that we do at BE is quick. Everything is carefully considered and thought out, sampled and tweaked for what seems like months, tested out to see what works and what doesn't. And then just when we think we've finished, we catch something else and change yet another detail. The average time overall is about 6 months.
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An explosion of colours is a great way to brighten up those miserable Monday mornings, especially if they are cheerful and plastic and attached to your wrist. This rainbow bracelet injects high spirited fun into the grayest of days with it's quirky charms, which include a Indian head, a rocking horse and a bunch of bananas amongst other equally random ones. Some of these are 90's originals, carefully removed from whatever shell suit they were attached too, and re strung for your enjoyment. For something that's semi vintage the price tag is totally reasonable, at $35 from Zlanarama, and lets you bring in the new year in good cheer.
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If you're averse to dancing the robot at the Christmas party, these cute earrings will let you join in the festivities without looking too stupid. I love the quirky design and they're oh so cheap that they'd make a great stocking filler to any fellow geek fiend. They're £14 from Lady Luck Rules OK, and willook great sparkling next to the fairy lights.
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Emma Gordon is one of The Bag Lady's favourite indie designers, with her handbags having graced our pages for well over a year now. We managed to catch up with the busy woman for a couple of minutes to ask her some questions about how she got started, her lovely creations, and what handbag she's lusting after at the moment...
What inspired you to
start designing?
I have always loved
handbags. I first produced a line of
bags for my Degree show (BA Hons Applied Arts) and this gave me a taste for
producing pieces on my sewing machine that were purely things that I love but
that I could also use.
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