Designer’s Diary

Monthly Archives: June 2007

A hand-stitch in time… getting Autumn’s collection into work

June 21, 2007 – 12:12 pm

Me hand-stitching with two needles, linen thread and veg-tanned leather…
… and not forgetting G, helping me out here with a men’s attache design…
I’ve just had another ‘fix’ at Val and Neil’s leather workshops up the road in Tetbury.
I’ve been working on some bag designs to go into my SS08 collection and, with the factory so [...]

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Where to get a good tan

June 4, 2007 – 4:42 pm

Years ago, when I was the designer at Mulberry, I remember showing some important customers around the factory in Somerset. One of them was fascinated by the fact that the leather wasn’t supplied on an endless roll, like fabric would be. Of course, she quickly realised the impossibility of this but, with the fashion industry [...]

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