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Ahhhh, that explains a lot! Thanks for letting us know...Come to my attention that I have a crap ton of unanswered messageslike 100 so no way I can respond to all of them. I haven’t went to the message area of my account in months. My email associated with TPF hasn’t been receiving emails. I just didn’t really notice as I use as app that has 4 email accounts attached to it so it’s a lot of emails
I promise I wasn’t ignoring anyone, I’m sorry!
I doubt she will stay on long term. Of course she has every right to sell but I don't think the brand will be the same. I'll stick to the OS bags.
) . I really wish this would happen...go back to her roots!!
Completely agree! Definitely she was trying to do too many things at once. It would be a dream come true if she went back to her roots and started making MAB’s and Nikki’s with the good leather that we love.I think she should have just stuck to doing handbags. I don't think there is a big demand for her clothing and most of the clothes are like anything else you can find in a dept. store aside from jackets/coats. She probably stretched herself too thin trying to do too many things. Her handbags have always been popular and it would have been nice for her to just continue making the 2 styles that put her on the map: MAB/Nikki. Along with of course the Edie, Love and Julian backpacks, which I think all 3 of those styles are quite popular (and you all know how I feel about the Edie
Totally agree! But I think as a designer she probably wanted to stretch herself, just doing bags is probably not challenging enough for her. I would love to see her go back to her bag roots with the nice leather but I think that ship has probably sailed, she is probably too invested in manufacturing capacity and the bottom line to give that up to focus on smaller batches of quality bags like she used to do. I would love to see made in USA again but that won’t likely happen either.I think she should have just stuck to doing handbags. I don't think there is a big demand for her clothing and most of the clothes are like anything else you can find in a dept. store aside from jackets/coats. She probably stretched herself too thin trying to do too many things. Her handbags have always been popular and it would have been nice for her to just continue making the 2 styles that put her on the map: MAB/Nikki. Along with of course the Edie, Love and Julian backpacks, which I think all 3 of those styles are quite popular (and you all know how I feel about the Edie
seems to me that brands like RM, Kooba and Botkier sacrificed quality to keep prices down. I don't think they will want to go back to the better quality and raise prices. So, as you say, that ship has sailed.
I was a big Botkier fan in it's heyday but wasn't as in to RM at the same time. Been scooping up some of the older, better made RM styles lately since they're not too hard to find and I appreciate them more now. The better Botkiers are harder to find secondhand now but agree that both brands and similar declined in quality when they lowered prices around the recession.
I think if you can find a botkier it would be priced well but maybe there aren't as many of of them out there. I got a Trigger a while back. Can't remember what I paid - probably $50-100
Not sure maybe some more indoor pics. Looks kinda orange but like a Carmel color almost, well to me anyway. Nice bag!
