Lucy, the lovely shop assistant shows me how to wear the Tote bag. I am easily convinced. Just the price decelerates my excitement a bit

I admit: I am a bag freak, a manic collector, a hunter on the hunt.
Apparently I always have to carry a lot. No, but for real, a new bag is like a new outfit. Almost. A bag raises every outfit to the peerage and puts the focus towards what we want to foreground: our newest acquirement, our latest prey. This time: the ‘Bathust Bag’ of the London Designer Anya Hindmarch.

New Collection: The ‘men at work’-bag in red out of the Bathurst-Satchel-Series. Price: 1.195 pounds

Less expensive than a new bag are the funny stickers that individually or in groups are being glued on the bag and that Hindmarch already presented in this year’s summer collection. Pimp your bag, is the motto of the accessories designer, who has successfully worked in the industry for 25 years. Just now the German fashion magazine Gala featured the idea in a fashion-production and stuck black and white big round comic eyes on this year’s must-have-bags. True eye catchers for the coming fall.

If the high-end bags are too expensive, the stickers at the online shop of the designer are individually purchasable. Starting at 45 pounds. Apiece of course

The fundamental idea behind this trend is that we want to individualize our bags ourselves. It is enough that we all run around with the same bag model! We want to at least give it our personal touch. With the stickers this works great.

At least looking doesn’t coast a thing! And the shop is worth every glance

By the way I recommend a pit stop in Anya Hindmarchs’ shop on the New Bond Street to anyone who ends up in London. Bag dreams within one’s grasp.
Anya Hindmarch stays true to her funny ideas and now persuades her fans with motives from road traffic: Stop! Give Way! Crossroad! So that everybody knows, where the fashion road leads this fall. BvH

Quite a lot of traffic: The sticker for gluing from the new collection

I would love to have that: the ‘Maxi Zip Satchel’

Here in the cabinet, otherwise on the arm of celebrities : Alexa Chung, Cara Delevingne, Kate Moss und Emma Watson take the Hindmarch-bags for a walk

Anya Hindmarchs’ luxurious bags are also available at ‚Selfridges‘ in London, ‚Colette‘ in Paris and ‚Isetan‘ in Tokyo. So funny: The ‘outch’-pendants

No bargain: the Crisp Packet Clutch is made of gold and is extensively handcrafted and manufactured in Italy. Price: 60.000 (!) Pounds

Okay, I also take the ‘Vaughan’-bag

Contact:

Anya Hindmarch
118 New Bond Street
London, England

www.anyahindmarch.com

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The bag “Spacie” from the current Stiebich & Rieth collection in the color cobalt blue*

When Julia Rieth and Detlfef Stiebich first met in Hamburg, they both worked as designers for the brand Joop, before they started to work for other labels. There, products were created on the computer, which started to bother both of them after a certain time and so they founded their own label to work on the product directly. Since 2012, handbags under the name Stiebich & Rieth are being made in traditional handicraft – made in Germany. The design duo recently got awarded the “Young Designers Award” for their craftsmanship.

Detlef Stiebich at work: All seams are prepunched in order to achieve accurate seam courses

MyStylery: Lots of the coveted designer bags come from France and Italy. Your handbags are handcrafted in Germany. Do these facts build a persuasive argument to spread your luxury segment internationally?
Detlef Stiebich: “Made in Germany” yes, but ‘handmade’ wasn’t easy in the beginning, because the purchasers got the illusion of something like arts and crafts. There was a big need of information. The breakthrough came at the Paris fashion week, where the German fashion label ODEEH offered to show our bags.

The leather comes from Italy, France and Spain and is vegetable tanned. Only natural ingredients are used as tanning agents such as tannins, chestnuts, roots, fruits or mimosa

MS: You renounce computer drafts and sketches. Your handbags are being made on the table, directly out of the material and out of your inspirations.
DS: That’s right. And before the production starts, Julia is wearing each prototype so that we can find out what we can still improve. That’s how we also design the details of our bags, as well asthe colouring, the closing mechanisms and the internal divisions. And if Julia says that nobody would wear that, one has to think from the beginning again.

All handmade: Due to the thickness of the leather, the two-needle technique is used. A bag has up to 45 items

MS: That sounds time-consuming.
DS: Absolutely (laughs). I also underestimated this in the beginning. For example in the beginning we always had problems with the knotting of the yarn at the end of the seam. So I went to Paris to Hermès to get a demo how to do it right. It takes weeks to finish a handbag. It already starts with the material: we process vegetable-tanned, solid saddle-leather, which is manufactured with an extra saddler stich due to the thickness of the leather. Luckily we found a leather manufacturer near Hamburg, who understands and commands the art of “hand-stitch-processing”. We’re accompanying each stage of the production process.

Two collections are created per year, ten different bag types in four or five colors. The bags cost between 800, – and 2.500, – Euros

MS: Your handbags are sold in Hamburg in luxury boutiques like “Linette” to the corresponding prices. Why does the client choose your product, when she could investigate a similar amount in an established brand?
DS: The simplicity and objectivity of our design convinces. Our client is self-confident and doesn’t define herself by special brand, of which everybody knows the price. Our client also wants another handbag: One, which not everybody owns. BvH

MyStylery loves… the Saddlebag “Hunter” from the latest collection. The must-have of the season!*

Kontakt:
www.stiebich-rieth.de

Featured pic and Photos* by Stiebich & Rieth

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