00:00Hi, I'm Karen Yates and welcome to Chair Yates, our studio store in Bushmills. The store is full
00:19of ladies handbags and some other products that I've designed with my daughter. They're all
00:25designed here in Bushmills and then made in various parts of England at the moment.
00:31All of our shapes are named after the women that I grew up with. So we have Alice, who's
00:37my nana, Tilly was my mum, Agnes, who was her bridesmaid and lots of strong women that helped
00:44me when I was younger. The handbags are also specifically made from the leather you normally
00:51use for jackets and gloves, so they're really soft and really light. We believe they're
00:56the softest and lightest handbag that's on the market at the moment. We're also now proud
01:01to be a B Corp, so sustainability has always been at the centre of everything that we do.
01:07We try not to waste anything, and I'll show you in a moment, but we make other products
01:12from the waist leather. Agnes is one of our best-selling shapes, and it's a really slaggy,
01:19like tote. You can get a laptop in it. And actually, Grace Beverly this year talked about
01:24it being the best ever work bag, so we're really, really proud of that. We also, this
01:29year, took Agnes into a made-to-water model in suede. This season, there's loads of suede
01:35of our own. We think, again, it's worked really, really well. This inspired us to then actually
01:40change our business model. So you can see here we have a range of different sort of styles,
01:47with all of, specifically here, with all of the chocolate colours for the autumn. These
01:55were launched a few weeks ago, and ultimately now, what you're able to do is take any of
02:00our shapes and have them made in the colour that you would like. This year, we're really,
02:06really proud to have designed two new shapes. First of all, we have Tilly. Again, made to
02:13order. It's the Tilly clutch. So you can now have that with the chain, or as a clutch.
02:21Customers looking absolutely loving it, and we're really, really pleased to have given Tilly,
02:25one of our best sellers, an uptake. And then finally, I really want to show you our first
02:31weekend bag. This is a, um, a version of a bag that we were lucky enough to make for Rory
02:38McIlroy, Dunluce Lodge, and commissioned us to design this for him. So at the open input
02:44rush, just down the road, where he was given, um, one of these bags, um, embossed for him,
02:51um, in a beautiful, um, green colour. So that's, um, again, a really exciting new, uh, adventure
02:57for us. And, uh, it's lined with Italian Alcantara, and it's a really, really looks gorgeous light.
03:03Um, we came back.
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