ErinDesigner
Templeton
Bag
Erin Templeton Accessories
"I
really have such trouble screwing
around with something that doesn't
work," says Vancouver's most stylish
bag lady, Erin Templeton. Luckily,
I mostly just
doodle and
it pops out
when it's time
the Port Coquitlam native's internationally
acclaimed recycled vintage leather bohos,
backpacks, clutches and cuffs have worked
from the get-go. Ten years ago, Templeton's
stand at London's famous Portobello Market
caught the eye of a stylist at U.K. fashion
mag Harper's & Queen when she was still
a starving shoemaking student at London's
Cordwainers College (now part of the London
College of Fashion). Then, after a brief stint
studying millinery in Melbourne, Templeton
came home to more attention from
trendsetting magazines like Teen Vogue,
Elle Canada and Flare. "I mostly just doodle
and it pops out when it's time," she says of
her design process. "I have learned so many
things, but not how to take a real two-week
vacation. I'm so far from the girl with some
old leather pants and a sewing machine that
I miss the old days sometimes!"
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