Luella
Former fashion journo-type Luella Bartley clearly deserved her Young Designer Of The Year at the Elle awards 2000 — this range of hangbags is absolutely positively gorgeous.
We have the classic Baby (see below)/Jazzy Gisele designs which will last a lifetime in anyone’s closet thanks to their extremely cute vintage charm, but there we also have really vibrant, fun colours (like the Mini Gisele in Prune up there). The colours really are good enough to eat — and it’s usually really hard to get away with those shades without looking tacky… yet she pulls it off.
So, I love Bartley’s range. She clearly doesn’t take a po-faced approach to design — she has great imagination and feel for colour which yes, she should have seeing as she’s a designer but so often, especially with newcomers, there’s this pressure to not go outside of the box, just in case it all goes to hell.
Quality is as excellent as you would expect… fine leather and lovely stitching, kind of like Lulu Guinness crossed with Hermes with a hint of Marc Jacobs… this is the kind of purse your little sister would steal from you to take to school and show off to her friends.
Luella’s bags can be bought from Browns in London, or net-a-porter etc.
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