Cassandra Kane

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314 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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Handbag Designer 101: The Stories Behind Handbag Designers, Brands, and Industry Icons · Turning Leather Waste into Luxury Handbags | Emily Blumenthal & Cassandra Kane · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

I was young and to be honest, this was back in like 2008, 2009.

So there wasn't a lot of conversation about it in the fashion industry back then and it was the financial crisis.

So coming in as an intern.

For me, it was great because the team had been seriously reduced.

And as an intern, I remember.

You end up doing a thousand times more everything.

I was pattern making.

I was an assistant designer.

I was costing runway collections at like twenty-one years old.

And so it was a it was a really amazing experience after that.

I ended up becoming the fur and leather and outerwear designer at Louie Tahari Collections.

And I did that for a few years until

I moved over to Zach, Zach Posan and did outerwear and always in like kind of fur, leather, and outerwear space.

And then I very briefly was doing DVS as well.

And finally in 2017, I found myself in between jobs and a little bit disillusioned with apparel, to be honest.

I really wanted to be an outerwear.

I remember taking an evening wear class and dealing with like silk and chiffon in college and being like, no, this is not for me.

But it's funny because there's a very big difference between the European more contemporary luxury market and the American market, in that because I was already working a lot with Italian tanneries and wool mills and stuff in Prato and things like that, at a couple of these brands that I worked for, they would come to me and be like, Can you just whip up some accessories?

We'd like some belts, we'd like some like leather Minotiers or some leather clutches.

Or bangles covered in leather or something for the runway show or for the presentation.

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