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September 15th, 2007 — Spring Summer 08, eco-fashion, eco-friendly, luxury handbags, news from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
My sustainable luxury handbag world. I re-posted this entry because my blog is changing, it is only natural to concentrate on the eco-friendly luxury handbag market.
Luxury handbags are often made of fine materials with very simple workmanship, it is difficult for the average luxury buyer to perceive the actual value of workmanship. So what the consumer knows about quality? Not often the quality perceived by the manufacturers coincide with that of the consumers. Let’s take hand-woven fabrics for example, any imperfection for me means the fabric is hand-woven and adds value to the fabric. It means that that fabric is a work of art, made with love and passion. For the consumer, on the other end are defects. Luckily this is changing, the new trend “New Authentic” generation is tired of seeing the same sort of fashion, knowing where the item is made helps (at least for me!) to emphasise its luxury status.
Fashion has always been based on skills, craftsmanship and natural resources.
Now disposable fashion (clothing and accessories are worn twice and then thrown away) has made us forget: who, how and the costs of “fast fashion”. Handbag making is become more about the label than the expertise, many companies have seen and increased pressure from investors. No more highest quality but the highest profit.
Luxury houses have been concentrating on new consumers abandoning the traditional customer, now many of the designers are trying to gain them back. Is this a sign of change? Expect the new fashion collections for spring summer 2008 and autumn winter 2007 to have a bit of a retro touch.
Online Stores Continue reading → New authentic. Fine materials or complicated workmanship?
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 25th, 2007 — Spring Summer 07, luxury, luxury handbags, news from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
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
March 27th, 2007 — Development, Handbags, Production, luxury handbags from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
I am going to make certain generalisations regarding the characteristics of one nationality or another but I certainly do not want to create stereotypes of any kind. It is based on my personal experience, on the years spent working in a cross cultural environment.
This entry is dedicated to all those handbag designers that produce in Italy and are dealing with Italian handbag or leather manufacturers (if you are lucky to find one willing to work with you!), unfortunately the current trend shows that the numbers are dropping fast: many Italian and foreign companies that once produced in Italy are taking their production to China.
Some time ago with an British colleague of mine, we held a pre-production meeting in Milan. We flew from the UK and after a two hour flight we arrived at the factory at lunch time. The representatives of the factory invited us for lunch. For Italians this is a very important part of the day, something that cannot be missed and where business is normally finalized with a glass of wine. Our diary for the day was completely different from the Italians, our schedule was: 8 o’clock fly to Milan - 12.30 pm Meeting - 4.00 pm Coffee and 5.00 pm fly back. Their schedule was a different story, the team (my colleague and I) arrives in Milan at 12.30 pm for a meeting, but because this would be lunch time why not have lunch and discuss the production at the same time. After lunch, having coffee we can have go through the files and sign the production orders. We ended up heaving lunch but I had to convince my colleague that it was rude to reject their invitation.
After we shared details of our personal every day life, including the political situation. I remember really well, my British colleague being very nervous and so anxious during lunch that in the end she stood up and said: “let’s have the meeting now”, creating embarrassment for us all. I personally think (mind you, I am Italian), if it happened to be in Milan at lunch time it is normal and acceptable for Italians to have something to eat and have a business meeting at the same time. Italians also like to shake hands and kissing goodbye and a little extra effort can get them on you side.
Producing in Italy can be a risky business! Italians are very good and skilled at making luxury products. If you think you have found the perfect Italian manufacturer for your handbag collections, when orders come in, you may have to consider taking your production to China because the factory may be refusing to follow your production orders. Happened to me! It is very difficult to get any Italian factory to sign anything and there are special rules http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/entrepreneurship/supply/documents.htm for CMT factories. Have a look at this links dedicated to “sub-fornitura” (CMT) : http://www.subfor.net/show.jsp?page=134 with info on factories willing to produce for you. I particularly love this article from a lawyer giving free advice (in Italian) on line http://www.misterfisco.it/saggi/contratto-subfornitura.PDF
The contract (a template in Italian) can be found on http://www.po.camcom.it/servizi/regola/subforn.htm :
Here some tips:
- Always fax or e-mail your order.
- Somehow, get the manufacturer to write back confirming the order.
- Send specifications sheets on anything (design, style, components, manufacturing, stitch, details, ironing instruction, labels, swing tickets….) to avoid disappointments (I will soon post some of my specs)
- Try to get the manufacturer to sign the “
subfornitura” agreement
- Annoy them and keep calling about your order.
Good luck!
Continue reading → Shaking hands and kissing goodbye
March 16th, 2007 — handbag theft, luxury, luxury handbags, news, tips from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
Handbag theft is increasing everywhere, have you insured your collections? We must protect ourselves against thieves, I was thinking of taking out insurance for my backpack. I still haven’t designed one in Pibiones fabric (I got some special fabric and soon I am going to make one for me!) for now I am wearing a Gucci and Mandarina Duck backpacks in black.
The average luxury handbag is worth at least € 500, purse €145 with some cash, mobile phone, MP3, make up bag and the hassle of car/house keys and card replacement. Not to mention the possibility of identity theft.
If you would like to know more about handbag theft and how to prevent it, here more advice:
http://www.bagtheftblog.com/
http://www.purseblog.com/general/purse-theft-what-to-do/
http://cms.met.police.uk/met/boroughs/harrow/05crime_prevention/meet_the_harrows/nan http://www.cherwell.org/features/the_perils_of_a_handbag_theft
Continue reading → Preventing handbag theft.
March 1st, 2007 — Handbags, Spring Summer 07, luxury, luxury handbags, news from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
Inspired by Karin, I thought it would be nice to share with you the peach flowers I bought in China Town. Thank you
Karin for
writing about my bags.
I would also like to thank other two
Pibiones supporters:
Beatriz from Spain (
bolsoblog.com) and Michael Andres at
Iguana Fashions,
A special thank to
Alla Moda for spreading the world about
Pibiones handbags.
Continue reading → Thank you for supporting Pibiones handbags
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.
