Butterflies in Business
Designer Agnes Baddoo Has It in the Bag
Veronica Webb via https://theglowup.theroot.com
What’s the handbag that would give you life—if only you could find it? Agnes Baddoo answered that question for herself, and it became a business.
Formerly a fashion stylist for Elle magazine, Baddoo cut her teeth on the international fashion circuit of New York, London and Paris in the ’90s. When The Glow Up caught up with the designer over the phone from her headquarters in Los Angeles, she was celebrating the fifth anniversary of her eponymous unisex line of handmade leather bags, now sold by some of the most exclusive retailers in the world.
Baddoo became a designer out of necessity. She had taken a favorite bag that once belonged to her mother to the shoemaker so many times, they had to change the proportion and move the handles and closures until they couldn’t do it anymore. Undeterred, “I set out to find someone who …
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