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September 28th, 2008 — Design, Handbags, eco, luxury from antonello @ Luxury eco-conscious fashion
I did talk before about this antique hand-woven textile. I discovered in an old wooden chest at my parents in Sardinia. It has been in the family from 1814: my great, great grandmother drew the designs and prepared dyes from local plants. She dyed the wool from my granddad sheep for her own work. She created a bedspread that remained in the family for few generations.
Its the time to review the past and look forward to achieving more in the coming years. This ecourages me to continue to work hard in the coming years to avoid the disappearance of the Sardinian hand-woven fabrics.
Continue reading → Reviewing the past
September 28th, 2008 — Design, Handbags, accessories, eco, luxury from antonello @ Luxury eco-conscious fashion
Where do I get design ideas? The only sources are the Sardinian fabrics and my imagination. Then, I have to make sure the idea I think is so brilliant, is developed into a concrete form. I normally start studying a particular hand-woven fabric and than I start making the pattern. The most important thing is to ensure the weavers and manufacturer understand how to produce it.
I try to be present in every production phase, to correct and redefine every component and detail. For the next Spring Summer 09 collection, I have based the handbag collection on roses and geometrical patterns.
Continue reading → Ideas for my design
November 20th, 2007 — Design, Handbags, eco-fashion, eco-friendly, luxury from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
When you are next eco-shopping in Paris, be sure you look for Eliza Gabriel handbags – the accessory range was presented at Prêt a Porter exhibition - So Ethic - in Paris. The bags are produced in her native village Taquaritinga (Brazil) by women’s cooperative businesses dedicated to fabric recycling. The Costurando Novas Esperanças (ACNE). New Hopes is the motto of this creative Brazilian association.
Continue reading → New Hopes for Eliza Gabriel
October 31st, 2007 — Design, Moodboard, Spring Summer 08 from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
One of my moodboards, for spring summer 2008 fashion. Pibiones handbag collections 2008 are inspired by nature: the sun, emerald green transparent sea and unspoiled white sandy beaches, the colours and the intense perfume of Mediterranean wild plants. The concept behind the collections is back to a basic life. Eco-chic with strong emphasis on sophistication and elegance.
Continue reading → Inspired by nature
September 24th, 2007 — Design, eco-fashion, eco-friendly, trends from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
Searching for new inspiration for the Autumn-Winter 2008-2009 eco-friendly handbag collection, I visited 100% Design. It couldn’t have been more exciting, the world of architecture and design coming together at a contemporary show.
The message was clear, the new more demanding consumer wants more information on the history and source of the material. All the ingredients where stuck on wall at the 100%Material, with lots of graphics to make visitor understand the connection between finished materials, finishing techniques and raw materials.
The Light Garden from Greenpeace underlined the energy efficiency as one of the best solutions to climate change. Their leaflet encourages people to use efficient bulbs for all the lighting needs.
Greenpeace is calling for designers, architects and retailers to get rid of old fashioned, energy wasting bulbs NOW.
Continue reading → Ask the experts at 100%Design.
July 31st, 2007 — Design, luxury, luxury handbags from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
Have you seen the new website design (
http://www.pibiones.com/) ? Please check the new autumn winter collection 2008 and write back to tell me what are you thoughts about it. No need to say, I have been very busy with photo shoots and editing. The Spring Summer 2008 handbag collection is ready, I am very satisfied with the result. As I mentioned before on the blog, the new ss08 handbag collection is entirely made out of eco-friendly handwoven fabrics. Even the handbag accessories are made out of fabric. The Pibiones handbag linings are made of beautiful ends of rolls and off cuts recycled new fabrics from these Sardinian factories. These fabrics would usually end up in skips and landfill, to be incinerated.
Online Stores Continue reading → I am back! The new Autumn Winter 2008 collection
April 28th, 2007 — Design, Developement, Spring Summer 07, luxury handbags from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
While looking at the Spring Summer 2008 predictions, I decided to “shop” around to “choose” my favorites luxury handbags for the Spring Summer 2007, the current season. I am sure you have already purchased your SS07 handbags, but I must look at the current season purses to predict the future collections. The Autumn Winter 2007 2008 collections are being produced as I am writing, I had a look at those too! I think is a little early…in the year… to talk about the fall winter 08.
The B bag from Fendi. This SS07 the most wanted bag, has been produced in silver. I must confess now! I am a big Fendi admirer. I like this luxury company and Carla of course… (one of the five sisters who run the empire, “loved by the press”) I had the pleasure to meet while working for the company.
Continue reading → Spring Summer 07 bags - My favorites
April 18th, 2007 — Design, Developement, Spring Summer 07, luxury, luxury handbags from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
The nice weather has influenced even my new window display at
www.pibiones.com! For the Spring Summer 2008, I am going to use more corals from Alghero to decorate some of the Pibiones handbags
Continue reading → The new virtual window display.
April 16th, 2007 — Design, Developement, Moodboard, Spring Summer 08, luxury, luxury handbags from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
I am already thinking about the next spring summer 2008 fashion and I have just started to taste the spring summer 2007. I looked at the
SS08 leather and accessories trends a and predictions. Le
Cuir - Paris and Premier Vision. I don’t remember if I mentioned a very useful prediction site worth checking:
http://www.fashiontrendsetter.com/content/color_trends.html. The weather is so nice, and even my
mood boards are affected by the summery weather. As previously posted, I normally gather and display my inspiration for the collections on MOOD BOARDS, another design moodboard example that explains the attachment to my native Sardinia.
Here are some of the many colours for SS2008.
Continue reading → Spring Summer 2008 Coral Moodboard
February 28th, 2007 — Design, Fashion, Spring Summer 07, luxury, luxury handbags from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
I have a (big) bag full of left over yarns, cutting off the excess fabric used for the handbags I always think that can be useful for some other project….you never know. I feel like the old people in my village that save anything! I have started using this yarns for making t-shirts for my friends. I spread the yarn across the front or the back of the t-shirt, use pins to create the design and then with the sewing machine I go over the yarns to secure them to the t-shirt.
Illustrations are drawn from the sardinian culture. May be, I can start making handbags with the some process!
Continue reading → Recycling the yarns.
