Which designer bags are ACTUALLY handmade?

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#46
Liberté;1935648 said:
If they weren't andmade it would've been harder to get the exact number of stitches etc that is so important to these bags. The use of machines = more randomness. How could a machine be sure that the canvas was cut so that the LVs woul come out in the middle and stuff like that?
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Actually, machines can be quite exact. Years ago, I went to a "take your kids to work" day at my dad's company, and they showed us around the different departments. One of them had to do with metal cutting, and there was a machine that would cut metal to exact measurements.The scientists would just specify instructions or put in a pre-made set of instructions into the computer, and then the machine would do it. They made large aluminum dice for us, with the company logo on it. Everything was very exact, since machines are mechanical and very math-based.

If the handbags were machine-made, the machines would have to be very complex, but they could still do it. There might be an odd-ball every once in a while, but the large majority would be identical.
 
#47
This is probably one of those things that will be very individual for each person, a "question of faith," as they used to say in the old style parochial schools when certain children posed certain questions that would be better suited to a post-graduate course in metaphysics. :)

It also touches on something called "comfort level," which will again, be different for each person.

And then there is marketing, which may or may not qualify as a faith tradition in and of itself. Or a metaphysical ephemera. Or both. But it is marketing which rules the day in the selling of handbags and everything else, and the marketing truth which is most apt here is that it is the selling of the dream, and not the cream, which has made, and continues to make, the big fortunes.

So, in other words, if you believe something to be "handmade," whatever you need "handmade" to mean, or whatever it does mean to you, then for you, it is. And that is important. That means that the company is filling a very real need, providing you with a very real psychological benefit that you might not receive from a handbag made by a company that you don't have the same beliefs about.

And if you really want to leave the realm of beliefs, you will probably find yourself discussing the subject in a venue that is less fashion-oriented ;)
 
#48
I am new at this website and blogging so hope I am doing this right. There are only two designers that I have come accross that make their bags by hand and they are Marino Orlandi, Italy and Brazilian designer Carlos Falchi, New York (and only if they say fatto a mano I believe which means made by hand-so perhas not all Carlos Falchi are made by hand).
 
#49
:shame: I am new at this website and blogging so hope I am doing this right. There are only two designers that I have come accross that make their bags by hand and they are Marino Orlandi, Italy and Brazilian designer Carlos Falchi, New York (and only if they say fatto a mano I believe which means made by hand-so perhas not all Carlos Falchi are made by hand).
 
#58
VBH!

I only have one--a black Cruiser tote--and the inside is as beautiful as the outside. Each VBH a limited edition, with a plate inside with its number.

I don't see them often... if you ever get one into your hands you will never forget it!

(I found my Cruiser on Jemznjewels.)
 
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