Introduction
- Aug 19, 2009
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Introduction
I have for the past twenty plus years been an observer, participant and over the top bagologist (lover of all things pertaining to bags). While working as a design consultant and in-house designer I have had a front row seat to the decline of the US manufacturing business of all types of sewn bags. My mentors in the business have been a generation of European immigrants, some survivors of Hitler’s wrath, others just transplants with skills that are rapidly becoming scarce in the US.
In my twenties I started a handbag company. Luck and youth was with me, department stores and better boutiques saw my products as saleable, so I had some degree
of success .As my vision and understanding of bag construction became a fusion of classical European construction mixed with off-beat American handbag funk and style.
Flash-forward to the present, I am starting this dialogue about design and this point in the timeline of bag history, musings on the state of the industry and my own hopes for the future, as well as creating a medium for anyone wanting to learn or share thoughts on bags, design or opportunities in the industry.