Godiva has worked with Rebecca-Jane for a number of years now, successfully selling her recycled leather bags and accessories. This season SS13 multi-way bags have been an instant success (pictures below) achieving a sell out within one month of being in the showroom.
Another multiway collection is on it's way to the shop next week and for online!
Rebecca-Jane's work has always been of the highest quality, beautifully crafted using some of the best recycled leather. Always imaginative, stylish and created to last, as any bag should do.
We are extremely proud to have Rebecca-Jane in our showroom and this year Godiva and Rebecca-Jane are collaborating on an exciting project, watch this space.
We asked Bex's to answer our Q & A......
Hello, I am........ Bex of the label Rebecca Jane
I design.........., handbags, accessories &
home-ware created from re-claimed leather jackets and vintage fabrics
When I am creating my typical day involves ……..getting
up and taking the dog out for a walk, it’s a great way to start the day its so
beautiful and peaceful and I love all
the different seasons. It’s a great time to gather your thoughts and plan the
day. I get into the studio about 10ish and quickly grab a hot drink from the
café (my new obsession is hot chocolate at the moment) I have a studio and shop
in one so it means that I can create at the same time as having the shop open.
Its not a high street store so isn’t that busy but its good to meet all my
customers and get feedback with new designs etc. On Mondays I set out goals for
the week and reviewing what I achieved the week before so that it gives you a
good boost to start the week on a high. Most mornings are usually spent
emailing and getting all my accounts and paperwork out for the way and
uploading any social media posts to hoostusite. I divide my work between
seasonal collections and commissions, so my day to day creating is different
all the time. I source my leather from textile recycling companies, sifting
through all the jackets just to find the one right gem of a jacket. I then
deconstruct the jacket, laying it flat ready to start cutting my patterns into
them. I tend to find that I am much more creative in the evening so sometimes I
work pretty late if I am on a role.
When I am not designing and creating I am…….....
walking the dog, tending to my veggie patch and ee friends in London,
Bristol and Brighton, I try to do a bit of yoga when I can, my mind is so
active sometimes that I cannot stop thinking, I find yoga really good for
completely switching off and chilling out. When I can I try to catch an
exhibition, I have just found a artists called Nahoko Kojima (www.solokojima.com), she creates paper cut out sculpyures and has an
exhibition coming up at the Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street,
London SE1 0LN . I’m
definitely going to go and check it out.
I also really enjoy theatre and I have recently discovered a really cute
small theatre in Brighton called the Tom
-The Old Market and have been to see a few things there. I tend to
prefer the smaller venues as they have so much more character. We saw this
brilliant production recently called the “ The animals and the children took to
the street” by a company called 1927. They are a women’s only team and there is
only 3 of them they combine visual arts with acting.
I get inspiration from……..... everyday things
around me, from people to nature. I love architecture, furniture and sculpture.
I really enjoy working three dimensionally and think this is why I fell in love
with working with leather as it allows you to be quite sculptural in the way
that you work without it looking theatrical as I found when I used to work on
clothing design. I love working with different textures and enjoy manipulating
leathers and fabrics to combine into interesting textiles forms. I am
fascinated my Vivienne Westwood, I think that she is an exceptional designer
and I have always loved her style which is quite Edwardian, an era that I am
very passionate about. I love what she stands for she does tons for charity and
she is so passionate about the world and our environment. One of my goals for
this year is hand deliver her one of my bags!
Being an independent designer is important
to me……..... because I have freedom. I have worked for different people over the
years and although I love people and working in a team I don’t enjoy the
restriction of having to be in a certain place at a certain time. I like to go
at my own pace and set out my own plans for the day. I have always been a very
motivated person and have had a passion for creating ever since I was born, I
have worked very hard for other people and now that I do it for myself I feel
very proud of what I have achieved so far and it makes me realize that you can
do anything you want if you set you mind to it.
I knew I wanted to be a designer…….... when I
was about 5, all of my family are creative and I have been bought up surrounded
by very strong minded self employed women and I think it was inevitable that I
would end up running my own company.
My greatest achievement so far is…….... having
had a Japanese agent who I worked with for 6 seasons, they represented me in
Japan and sold my work to a selection of high end Japanese department stores,
like Baycrews and Japanese Amazon. They head hunted me from seeing me at a
market on Brick lane in London and our relationship grew from that point. It
was a fantastic experience and they were amazing people to work with,
unfortunately we are not working together anymore as the Japanese economy took
a downfall after their devastating earthquake.
I cannot live without ……......my sewing machine,
my dog, my boyfriend and olives. If I were to have to choose in a life or death
situation it would be very hard…..but don’t tell my boyfriend but it would
probably have to be olives!!! I’m obsessed, when I was little I ate a whole jar
of olives and my mum said to me “Bex where are all the stones” I looked at her
and said “what stones” I had eaten the whole jar of olives plus all the stones.
My favourite thing I have ever bought or
found……. We used to live in Bristol which is the city of thrift and recycling
culture. I was walking down the street one day and stumbled upon these two very
elaborate gold chairs left out on the street (that’s what people do in Bristol,
when you no longer want something you leave it outside your house and usually
in a matter of hours it will have gone, its brilliant), they were like thrones.
They were covered in purple velvet with a gold print and had antique gold
painted arms and legs. They were unbelievably cool, my intentions was to
restore them but in recent years we have moved about 6 times and with great
pain and upset I had to donate them to someone else as we did not have room for
them in one of our new apartments.
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| new Multi-way bag |
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| New Mutli-way bag £112.00 each |
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| Brown Leather Polkadot Clutch £36.00 |
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| Grey Tassel Bag £97.50 |
