Lulu Guinness and Anya Hindmarch are principally associated with which fashion accessory?
Anya Hindmarch Anya Hindmarch Anya Susannah Hindmarch, (born 1968) is an English fashion accessories designer who founded an eponymous company. Hindmarch was born into an entrepreneurial family and attended New Hall School, an independent school in Chelmsford, Essex. At 16 Hindmarch was given an old Gucci handbag by her mother and at 18, in around 1986, she went to Florence to study Italian for a year. While she was in Italy, she noticed a drawstring leather duffel bag was all the rage among fashionable women. Even though the UK economy was in a recession, she was inspired by Margaret Thatcher's entrepreneurial ideas,
Anya Hindmarch of a former brewery. By 2009, she had 51 stores worldwide with an estimated sales of £20 million. In 2013, Anya Hindmarch opened its New York flagship store on Madison Avenue that sold both manufactured and bespoke bags. In 2006, 2007, and 2015 Hindmarch won Designer of the Year by "Glamour" magazine, and became the first winner of the Designer brand of the Year at the 2007 British Fashion Awards, having been named Accessories Designer of the Year at the same awards in 2001. She won the British Fashion Award for Accessory Designer again in 2014 and the Elle Awards