The fashion community recently came together for a charity
drive. We were collecting accessories to
send to women in Rwanda. These women
from 18-55 were embarking on a new journey in their lives. They each had the opportunity to attend four
year university all over the globe. Some
would be travelling to France. A few
would be going to Germany. And several
would attend university in the United States.
Two would be going to Oxford in the UK.
All of these women are incredibly smart and driven. When a major fashion editor hears about their
story, she contacted many of us in her circle to inform us of her idea.
She wanted to send these women new accessories so they could
use them as they embarked on their new journey at university. I volunteered to contact all of the designers
in my in box that I had previously interviewed and had on going working
relationships. I reckoned that these
women would need larger handbags to carry their books, notebooks, and laptops. Many of the designers only specialized in
smaller evening bags. The first design
house I contacted was PLIA Designs. I
had recently interviewed their designers and I genuinely liked both of
them. I knew they specialized in larger
bags such as their Reid courier satchel.
If you did not know, PLIA Designs is a handbag firm specializing in of
course designer handbags, purses, satchels and leather goods. I immediately heard back from them. They said they would love to donate as many
handbags as they could. Attached to
their email response were jpegs of large bags they would send to my editor
friend ASAP.
The PLIA Designs handbags arrived within four days. They sent their roomy Reid courier bags for
each one of the ladies. The handbags
were simply perfect. The interior of
these luxury designer handbags is simply marvelous. They use custom quilted fabric and the
interior has several smartphone pockets, credit card slots, and an iPad pocket. The women would all have new laptops and
these PLIA Designs handbags perfectly held a laptop. The designers even included individual hand
written notes wishing each woman lots of luck and to get good grades at
university. Now how many designers do
you know that would take the time to do that?
I packed up the bags myself and sent them off to
Rwanda. What an amazing surprise this
would be for these ladies who had worked so hard to come so far in life. And what woman doesn’t like a brand new designer handbag?
