SACUM TENENT...bespoke bags

Biography

  1. View Bernadette working on 08 collection
  2. View Inspiration/sketches
  3. View Bernadette in her studio
  4. View The Studio at Blackmore
  5. View Fittings and fixings
  6. View Bernadette with Spring 2007 collection
  7. View Spring garden show 08
  8. View Sketch book
  9. View The entrance to the Cornhall
  10. View Detail:detachable strap
  11. View Detail of summer 2006 collection
  12. View Detail- collection-2006
  13. View The Cornhall, Cirencester

I served my apprenticeship in cutting, design and tailoring at Angels Theatrical Costumiers in London. I made my first bag in 1979 from the offcuts of material from which I had cut a waistcoat for Anthony Hopkins. Actors and actresses attending Morris Angels for fittings saw and ordered my unique travel pieces.

Two years of world travel as nanny to the children of a famous American writer finally brought me to New York and enabled me to indulge my love of fabrics in the 7th Avenue garment district.

Hiring a heavy duty sewing machine was the next step and finding an amiable cab driver prepared to load the machine into the back of his yellow cab and help carry it up to the 2nd floor apartment in Greenich Village. Within six months every tenant in the building had bought a weekend bag for Martha's Vineyard or the Hamptons.(contd. press on biography for next page.)

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