Bags of Blog — News

Welcome to the Vida Vida blog and our newly updated website.

 

As you can imagine, we are extremely excited to announce the launch of our new website.  We have been working on this update to the site for the last few months (well it was a bit longer actually) and finally, we can unveil the sleeker, more informative and quicker website to everyone!

 

We have a great new payment system using our own Security Certificate (very boring but it means your data is totally 100% secure), a dramatically improved navigation system and new pictures of every single product in our range.  This means you can view, in close up detail, all the lovely features of our fabulous leather satchels, weekend bags, handbags and accessories.

 

Full details of our very important ethical policy and the history of the company are now available to show the genuine love and care which has gone into making sure we have strong friendships with all of our suppliers – from our expertly-skilled craftsmen to the family-run businesses who supply us with our leather.

 

Also, we are starting a weekly blog about bags and jewellery as well as other areas of the fashion industry, events in London and possibly book, film and theatre reviews – sort of anything that takes our fancy and perhaps yours too.

In addition to the launch of the new site, 2013 is set to be a great year for Vida Vida; we are looking to add a pop-up shop to our selection of stalls around London, more products and product ranges are on the way, we are set to support a charity to help women and children in India and Matt has begun his training for a fundraising swim across the English Channel in 2014 (news on how to sponsor him and find out more about the charity will appear soon).

 

We are launching an “occasional” newsletter which will inform you about anything exciting which is happening including new product releases, discounts, competitions and other general news.

 

Finally, we want to get YOU involved.  So, we would love to hear your reviews and stories about your purchases, additionally if you have any pictures of you with your Vida Vida item don’t hesitate to email them to us so we can use them.  There will be a section of our blog all about our customers and their travels with their bags and a competition for the photo of one of our bags in the strangest location. You can find some of the early reviews in our new Customer Testimonials section!

 

Andreya - "The Bag Lady"

 

Now, although I’ve always been a fan of the old school satchel, this style of bag has made a recent re-entry into the fashion industry. There are many reasons for this, though I like to believe that the main one is that Jack Bauer (CTU agent portrayed by Kiefer Sutherland) wears one of these timeless bags in the award-winning TV series 24.

 

Bauer is not only ranked as #1 in a list of “TV’s Toughest Men” by Sky 1, but also in “The 20 All Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture” by Entertainment Weekly. This just goes to show that the trend for satchels must be down to the fact that they make you look tough yet cool; what every man wants!

 

I must say that however cool Jack looks with his canvas satchel, he would look even better with a naturally suntanned, all leather satchel. Although Matt assures me that normally these bags aren’t used to carry Baretta 92s or Walther PPKs.

 

[caption id="attachment_80" align="aligncenter" width="241"] Is that a gun in your satchel or are you just pleased to see me?[/caption]