When I’m not designing bags, I spin fire!
In between designing handbags, shipping handbags and accounting, I spin fire. Check out my first performance (beware…the guy with the camera is quite excited and loud!)…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7897608305674734376&hl=en
Did you see it?
The new collection is sooooo damn amazing if I do say so myself! Great colors, cool satchels and the cutest new wallets and clutches with peacock and rose appliques! Check ‘em out at http://dutchy.net/dutchy_catalog/index.html
dutchy Mid-Winter Sale in Oakland, CA
If you don’t live near Oakland, California (where my studio is) or simply can’t make it, and like something on www.dutchy.net – email me from the site and I will give you 25% off of your order for mentioning you read my blog.
Click here to see the postcard invite:
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Hope to see you!
Color time
Today is the day I make the final decision on the colors for Fall. Did I mention how much stress this causes me? Color is very important because buyers are drawn to certain colors and in the fashion business drawn to the ‘in’ color. The ‘in’ color, however, is only speculated on prior to the season with forecasting, but really until you see a bag you have to have in a certain color and all the other women around you feel the same way, the ‘in’ color isn’t real.
So for the next few days I’m going to pay tribute to some of the upcoming forcasted ‘in’ colors. I will tell you about more than I’ll chose for Fall, so you’ll have to eagerly await the lines’ debut in August. Maybe that will help with the ‘in’ concept.
Yellow: Known to signify death in Egypt, courage in Japan, merchants and peace in India, and to represent not only happiness and sunshine, but also deceit and cowardice. Yellow is conflicted; and the colors one choses to compliment yellow will change the communication of the color yellow.
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To Press or to Press
I just sent a couple of the coolest totes–one black, one mocca (the jet tote) out to Marie Claire for review.
It’s always such a test when bags go out to the magazine editors for critique; in fact it feels like I’m interviewing for a job everytime. You know that feeling when you want a job, it’s your dream job really, so you prep your resume and you send yourself to the interview and hope you answer all the questions perfectly (or at least what they’d consider perfectly). That’s what it feels like to have my dutchy designs sent to editors. Not to mention the fact that they are reviewing hundreds, if not thousands, of other bags to choose just one. It’s such a great opportunity, so I do it everytime, but the stress does get to me…hoping, wishing, praying…that they’ll pick me–I mean pick dutchy. But isn’t that the quandry with artists anyway; their work becomes not only a reflection of who they are, but sometimes the line gets very gray and their work is truly who they are?
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