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28/09/2021

How the great brand handbag that changed the world
BOOTBAG

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We got a new project from Italy concerned with
The toy shape handbag.
We remember the Bootbag was very hot in 2008.

The contemporary obsession with the handbag as the ultimate fashion and consumer statement reached its apogee some might say nadir when, for Christmas 2008, footballer cm celebrity David Beckham gave his wife, Victoria, a diamond encrusted “Himalayan” version of the famous Brikin bag,It cost him USD110,000.00.

The handbag undoubtedly looked gorgeous, but for some the inflated price tag and the associated inflated egos took away much of its silvery sheen.

The Bootbag is the perfect antidote to such vainglory. A paintbox coloured children’s rubber Wellington boot is transformed through the simple device of piercing two horizontal handles into either side of its shaft. The Bootbag was designed the young Belgian Italian Saskia Marcotti (1986-), who was just 18 at the time, as one of the launch products of the witty Belgian design label Vlaemsch. Mass produced and marketed at just USD55.00, it combines chunky looks and
Topsy- turvy charm, making it an instant street classic.

From time to time contemporary design, with its ever present tendency towards pomposity and hyperbole, needs such playful irreverence to keep its feet firmly on the ground.

27/09/2021

How the great brand handbag that changed the world

I’AM NOT A PLASTIC BAG

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Can a bag really change the world? What can possibly be so meaningful about a bag
That its very existence can improve the quality of our daily lives, let alone alter the destiny of our planet? Of all the bags in the history record- beautiful, conic and downright desirable as they are – it is perhaps the simple canvas tote by Anya Hindmarch (1968--) that has the best claim to the title “Most World changing Bag”.
Yet it is also one of the cheapest: “ A USD30.00 it Bag”, as a celebrity magazine screamed.

Created in collaboration with the British environmental charity We Are What We Do, the Hindmarch bag set out to wean us off our addiction to the plastic bag by making the homey canvas shopper seem so much more chic.

Nicely designed though it was, the bag in itself was hardly ground breaking; its marketing, by contrast, was inspired. Even before its launch, photographs of celebrities such as Keira Knightley sporting the bag has seeped into the media, and such was the hype that in Britain thousands queued outside supermarkets in the desperate hope of buying one.

A backlash was inevitable. Its detractors questioned whether the bag was really so green. Why was it made in china and why was it not made from organic cotton? Yes, it had its faults, but then not bag is perfect (except perhaps and Hermes), and in its own small and lovable way the Hindmarch bag really did change the world

25/09/2021

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How the great brand handbag that changed the world

THE UNIQUE BAG PROJECT

In today’s supersaturated marketplace, the quest for originality can sometimes seem futile. This season’s must have glossy black bag may not look so different from last season’s, and the cross pollination, not to say plagiarism, between even the most exalted brands can mean that it ends up being hard to tell even a Gucci and a Pucci apart.

There is very little new under the sun The true test of a good (or bad) handbag lies in the quality of the craftsmanship, the obsessiveness of the detailing and the fundamental passion that underpins the design.

In the Unique Bag Project, first launched as a brand in 2007, the Japanese designer Hikaru Matsumura (1964-) has striven to create a series of bags whose uniqueness lies in the sheer depth of the craftsmanship.

Gloves have previously provided inspiration for bags: Moschino, for example, created a tongue-in-cheek bag in the form of a cherry red boxing glove back in 2001. Matsumura, however has taken an altogether more authentic approach, marrying his precise creative vision with the craft skills of a baseball glove manufacturer in Osaka, Japan.

The result is a curiously anthropomorphic and even fetishistic from the intricate stitching is vaguely suggestive of a laced up bodice.

The passion here, though, is in the detail, from the elaborately pierced and stitched central panel to the laced, nipped in sides. Who needs originality when you can have unique ness.

25/09/2021

COMELY HANDBAG AND DESIGNER

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How the great brand handbag that changed the world

THE UNIQUE BAG PROJECT

In today’s supersaturated marketplace, the quest for originality can sometimes seem futile. This season’s must have glossy black bag may not look so different from last season’s, and the cross pollination, not to say plagiarism, between even the most exalted brands can mean that it ends up being hard to tell even a Gucci and a Pucci apart.

There is very little new under the sun The true test of a good (or bad) handbag lies in the quality of the craftsmanship, the obsessiveness of the detailing and the fundamental passion that underpins the design.

In the Unique Bag Project, first launched as a brand in 2007, the Japanese designer Hikaru Matsumura (1964-) has striven to create a series of bags whose uniqueness lies in the sheer depth of the craftsmanship.

Gloves have previously provided inspiration for bags: Moschino, for example, created a tongue-in-cheek bag in the form of a cherry red boxing glove back in 2001. Matsumura, however has taken an altogether more authentic approach, marrying his precise creative vision with the craft skills of a baseball glove manufacturer in Osaka, Japan.

The result is a curiously anthropomorphic and even fetishistic from the intricate stitching is vaguely suggestive of a laced up bodice.

The passion here, though, is in the detail, from the elaborately pierced and stitched central panel to the laced, nipped in sides. Who needs originality when you can have unique ness.

24/09/2021

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How the great brand handbag that changed the world

HOME TOTE

Since the 1990s the plastic shopping bag has become the” Bete noire” of the environmental movement. Handed out willy-nilly in supermarkets across the globe, the seemingly indestructible plastic bag consumes vast quantities of petrochemicals, is responsible for the death of millions of animals and, on land and sea, is the unsightly, toxic symbol of our throwaway culture.

Despite international moves to inhibit or even ban its use, tens of billions of plastic shopping bags are still being produced every year, although estimates vary, in many countries it amounts to some 300 bags per year per person.

There are encouraging signs of change. The plastic bag is fast becoming anathema, and the canvas shopper once the mainstay of the market going housewife has made a comeback.

British/Turkish Cypriot Hussein Chalayan (1970) produced this handsome printed cotton canvas tote in aid of the environmental initiative HOME. Throwing off the somewhat fusty image of the shopper, it shows us that it can be chic to be green.

Chalayan, whose career has always combined avant-garde design with support for progressive causes, uses the bag to promote another issue, too the accelerating extinction rate threatening some 40 per cent of the planet’s known animal species.

23/09/2021

PROFESSIONAL HANDBAG MANUFACTUR- COMELY HANDBAG

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PRODUCTION OF FASHION HANDBAGS with silk.

SILK

Further of yesterday, there are four kinds of silk fibers. Cultivated silk comes from the domesticated silkworm.

The filaments are almost even in size, their fineness indicated by a unit called denier (the weight in grams of 9000 meters of yarn). Cultivated silk is used for the finest silk fabrics, such as crepes, taffetas, and satins.

Wild or tussah silk comes from the wild silkworm. Less secure environmental conditions cause the filaments to be coarser and more uneven.

Therefore, fabric made from wild silk is not as smooth as that made from domesticated silk. Douppioni silk is the result of the filament sticking together at intervals while wrapped as a cocoon, causing slubs (lumps) and uneven yarn used to make shantung fabric.

Schappe and bourette (waste) silk are composed of short fibers from damaged cocoons that are not strong or long enough to be used on their own. Yarn spun from waste silk also has irregular slubs from the joinings and is used in rough-textured silks.

Silk has always been used for the finest garments. The silk fiber is triangular and reflects light, giving silk its unique luster.

Because it takes dyes with exceptional depth and clarity and has a luxurious feel, it adds elegance to any garment. Silk drapes exceptionally well, is very strong yet lightweight, and is comfortable as well as beautiful.

21/09/2021

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The Raw Material of Fashion Handbag – Silk

That is the first time we got the trial order of Silk fashion bag from
From Italy.
Before we arranged the group of phototype 6 months ago, we have been visited
Silk fabric manufacturer many time to know more.

SILK Fabric

Silk is the only natural fiber that comes in continuous filament from as opposed to short staple lengths. Silk is the protein filament secreted by a silkworm to make its cocoon.

A silkworm uses the cocoon as a shell to protect itself during its transformation from caterpillar to moth.

A typical cocoon will produce 600 to 2,000 meters of continuous fiber, making silk the only natural filament fiber. Nevertheless, it takes over 500 silkworm cocoons to make a blouse.

Silk harvesters unwind the filament from the cocoon onto silk reels. The silk fiber is steeped and boiled in soap baths to remove the sericin or silk glue.
The time and labor needed to cultivate silk make it a rare and , therefore, expensive fiber.

World production of silk fiber is a mere 0.2 percent, or only 60 million kilograms annually. Asia produces nearly all of the world’s raw silk filament fiber. Asia has decreased exports of raw silk and increased production and exports of finished silk fabrics. The most famous quality silk fabric mills are in Como, Italy and Lyon, France, but the Koreans have learned their techniques.

There are four kinds of silk fibers. We adopted the cheaper one for our mass
Production of fashion bags.

Let us introduce to-morrow.

20/09/2021

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How the great brand handbag that changed the world
ALEXA BAG

Since the early 1970s the Mulberry brand has been the purveyor of a certain kind of nostalgic English style the country house world of tweeds, Wellington boots and Labradors, of hunting, shooting and fishing that was perfectly summed up in the company’s discreet mulberry tree log.

Mulberry’s founder, Roger Saul, started out by designing leather goods such as belts and chokers for London high end fashion stores such as Biba, and within a couple of years was meeting orders from the likes of Bloomingdale’s in New York.

In the 1980s the Mulberry planner, and upmarket version of the Filofax, became a must have yuppy accessory.

In more recent times Mulberry has begun to throw off that had become a rather stilted and stodgy image, and, like Burberry before it, is now finding favour with a younger, hipper crowd.

The Mulberry Alexa bag may hark back to the capacious “poacher bags” with which the company originally made its name its warm oak colour, soft buffalo leather and sturdy, simple shape root the bag firmly in the English saddler tradition but this is unquestionable a contemporary urban bag, albeit one with an eye on the past.

There is even, for dressy occasions, a fuzzy leopard print version in pink. Ditch those wellingtons a new English style as arrived.

18/09/2021

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How the great brand handbag that changed the world
MINI ON LOCATION –HOLDALL

When Paul Smith introduced their great issue –
Mini On Location Holdall (2009), it is the trend in Asia.

Two great British icons of the late twentieth century come together in this quirky canvas holdall- the highly respected designer and retailer Paul Smith (1946) and the small but feisty Mini cooper car, the epitome of swinging 1960s pizzazz. Smith’s association with the Mini dates back to the late 1990s.

In 1998 he collaborated with the car’s manufacturer, the Rover Group, on a limited edition version, inspired by a one off Mini he had designed for the 1997 Tokyo Motor Show, with bodywork featuring the designer’s famous signature motif, incorporating stripes in 86 different colors.

In the 2000s the stripy car began to appear in an innovative series of photographic prints known as “Mini on Location –used on a range of classic Paul Smith accessories, from bags to cufflinks. The striking, surrealistic images staged the rainbow Mini in iconic British settings Portland Bill lighthouse, the roof of Harrods department store, and here a wintry Sherwood Forest, the “shire wood” of Smith’s native country of Nottinghamshire and the legendary home of Robin Hood.

As always with Smith’s work, it is the combination of classic style with a humorous or characterful twist that lifts the bag out of the run of the mill. Quality craftsmanship, too evident everywhere here, from the purple inner lining to the brown leather handles and trim helps to create the perfect holdall for the modern gentleman.

17/09/2021

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How the great brand handbag that changed the world
ACCORDION – HANDBAG

The handbag is the most sculptural of fashion accessories. Unlike hats (which meld with the face) and shoes (which with any luck stay put on the feet) the handbag can just as often be spotted alone, set down on a table or chair as it can be seen swinging from its owner’s arm.

Shape, structure and silhouette are thus key qualities of any handbag from the hard edged lozenge of a Wilardy Rocket to the more relaxed, “melting” shape of an Alexa.

The shape of a bag can tell us something about the wearer, her personality and moon, and even the age in which she lives. Uptight style queens love hard edged glamour, while laid back bohemians prefer the unstructured and casual.

Capacious bags are for hard times when we all have too much to do; small ones are for more frivolous, free spirited times when we are hardly out of our dancing shoes.

What then should we make of the Korean designer Lie Sang Bong’s “Accordion” bag?
With its high-concept from and sleek gothic looks, this bag makes a statement that is bold but complex.

Dramatic? Erotic? Dystopian, even? You choose. We live, ti seems, in a complex, fragmented age.

16/09/2021

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How the great brand handbag that changed the world
HAVERSACK - Backpack

Some bags are all about luxury, others about practicality. And both
Kinds despite the now very tired Modernist mantra “Form follows function”
Can be excellent examples of design.

When it comes to practicality, little can beat the US ARMY’s M-1910 haversack. Introduced in 1910 and used in World War I, it was to remain standard equipment for American infantrymen (with only slight amendments after 1928) until the very end of World War II.
In essence, the M-1910 was a simple sheet of khaki colored canvas that folded around the contents, with a buttoned flap to close it and two broad shoulder straps, which for stability also attached to a web belt worn around the waist.
The bag carried everything the soldier needed for life out in the field. Inside were his bedding, clothing and personal effects, while outside, attached by a system of loops and rings, were the tools of his trade, a bayonet sheath and a short, squat shovel for digging trenches. At the back of the pack was a buttoned down “meat-can pouch” to hold the soldier rations.

The origins of the haversack itself are even less glamorous but just as down to earth. The
German dialect world Haversack referred to the feeding bags cavalrymen carried for their horses, although by the late eighteenth century the world had come to be used for soldiers”

15/09/2021

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How the great brand handbag that changed the world
AMAZONLIFE BOWLING BAG

Tenpin bowling is enjoyed by millions, so it is no surprise that its bold harlequin colors and 1950s retro styling have sometimes slipped out of the bowling alleys and onto the fashion runway.

Two-toned suede bowling shoes and bowling shirts have long been preppy staples, while the chunky two-handled bowling bag has given the world of handbags one of its most striking silhouettes.

Vivienne Westwood (1941-) has created a whole rack of bowling bags including one in rabbit and another, of course, in her signature tartan but this black and white bag from Westwood’s Red Label diffusion is her most overt tribute to bowling’s 1950s heritage.

It also, by the by, gives expression to the designer’s much publicized political activism. Created in collaboration with the environmental campaigning charity AmazonLife the bag displays its logo to push home the message about global warming.

The bag’s political engagement goes beyond mere sloganeering, however-the canvas is organic and the rubber is of the wild Amazonian variety.

And unlike most other bags in this book, this practical, preppy day bag could even double up for a night down at the alleys.

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