Orla Kiely is a renowned designer, based in London, whose approach to simplify and stylise everyday motifs achieves a very modern style with a warm nostalgic quality.
Orla began her career designing hats but began launching into handbag design after her father noted during her first London Fashion Week that everyone was carrying a handbag, but no one was wearing a hat!
In the late 1990s, she had the idea to laminate cloth for handbags at a time when no one was doing anything like it; laminated fabric, in those days, meant tablecloths!
Orla Kiely constantly surprises us and whilst we are all familiar with her classic designs there is always something new that satisfies our design taste buds.