Inspiration: For Women Only
Longchamp is a French leather and luxury goods company.
Longchamp was founded by Jean Cassegrain in 1948, and the company employed craftsmen across the country to create leather coverings for pipes and other products geared toward smokers.
By 1955, the company had expanded to include small leather goods, opening its first factory in Segré.
By the [...]
Prada was started in 1913 by Mario Prada and his brother Martino as a leathergoods shop. Initially, the shop sold leather goods and imported English steamer trunks and handbags.
Prada’s originality made it one of the most influential fashion houses, and the brand became a premium status symbol in the 1990s.
The signature Prada look encompassed luxurious [...]
Louis Vuitton, a trunk-maker in Paris since 1854, became a legend in the art of travel by creating luggage, bags and accessories as innovative as they were elegant and practical.
A century and a half later, the legend lives on.
Strengthened by its international renown, the legend is embodied by the Monogram canvas, which has enjoyed unrivalled [...]
In 1921, Guccio Gucci opened a leather goods company and luggage store in Florence. Having worked at the Savoy hotel in London, he was inspired by the styles he had witnessed so on returning to Italy, he brought these ideas with him
Within a few years, the Gucci shop enjoyed such success that sophisticated [...]
Anya Hindmarch MBE has come a long way from her first store on London’s Walton Street.
The Anya Hindmarch label now incorporates leather handbags, small leather goods, luggage, shoes and clothes. She was born in 1968.
In 2001, Anya launched the charity promotion ‘Be a Bag’, which allows customers to have their own photographs printed onto [...]
