Lux Couture puts out new and upcoming fashion designers, so I always go there to check out if anything good is on the horizon and I realized I missed the debut of a wonderful designer who debuted last year, Katherine Kwei. Lux Couture put together a fabulous bio for Kwei, which can be read below:
A former PR rep for luxury giant Louis Vuitton, Kwei was familiar with high-end skins and craftsmanship long before she started her own line. By drawing on her heritage and the tradition of Chinese knotting to make her modern luxury bags, Kwei gives her designs a special, personal quality (a far cry from what you find with her former employer’s logo covered totes). There’s no decorative bling or extras, it’s the intricate knotting that makes these bags so stunning. You might think so much handiwork would make her bags seem precious, but they look edgy and tough – a perfect representation of the modern woman who’s both feminine and strong.
These bags are the Katherine Kwei Donna Clutch and the Katherine Kwei Teresa Hobo. The clutch uses shiny water snake with slit tactic to shape the material into strips and then is knotted at the bottom. The hobo features knotted strips of leather that is quickly becoming her signature trademark. With the amount of time that must go into this handbags, the price is beyond reasonable. And the more I am looking at these handbags, the more I am a fan. The clutch is $850, the hobo is $700.
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