Showing posts with label purse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label purse. Show all posts

Monday, November 05, 2007

audreybag.com is now open for business!

After a little bit of a delay, audreybag.com is officially open for business and ready to take orders. Apparently, the site was delayed by just a couple of days because Luca Dotti was in charge of designing and maintaining the site, so communications had to go from Italy, where Luca is, to Santa Monica, California, where the Children's Fund offices are. So for all you curious types out there who wonder what Luca's up to, now you know. :)

Anyway, go look at the site already! You can sign up for the newsletter the site will release periodically, so you will be notified when the news page is updated and new collections are released. Yes, new collections! So if you were wringing your hands in despair because you couldn't afford any bags from this collection right away, don't worry. There will be roughly two collections per year, plus some one-of-a-kind bags, so there will always be something available for you. Make sure to read the news page while you're visiting, as it has an interview with Sean talking about the inspiration and motivation behind the audreybag, and photos of the bags being made by hand in Italy.

Now that it's up and running, what do you think?

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Audreybags

There's some big news today! Huge thanks to sharp-eyed reader Alanna for finding out that the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund is set to release a limited-edition line of handmade Italian purses with Audrey's image on them! There are 12 different designs, with 36 bags of each design being made. So that means a scant 432 bags were made, making it very limited edition. The bags will be available November first, when the official website launches. In the meantime you can read more about the bags and the designs here, and if you'd like to see bigger pictures of all 12 bags, go here and view the PDF press release (link at the top of the page). It has great, full-page pictures of all of the bags, plus dimensions and some information on what the Children's Fund has been up to lately. I can't wait! My favourite is to the left.

I'm starting to feel a little like Holly Golightly here. Is there a rich sugar daddy in the house, willing to buy a poor girl a posh handbag? It's for a good cause! :)