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

And which just for anybody out there who's listening, while I was there and transferring my

Initially squalido a coil and transferring my

student visa to a work visa so that I would be able to work in Italy all of a sudden out of the blue, I started getting freelance comic ins still in outerwear or in apparel or things like that.

But really that was also another sign that okay, I'm meant to continue being here and keep going.

And then I was able to also support myself better financially.

I also, after I finished with Coyo, got a job in

A factory.

here in Florence making very high end handbags for

luxury brands, you know, brands like Dolcing Gabbana, Todd's, Fairgon.

What were you doing in the factory?

I was a prototipista, which is a handbag sample maker.

So the difference between handbag factor leather factories and garment factories, especially handbags, I always tell students is like with leather, you only can stitch it one time because you can't once you make a hole in the leather, you can't unstit make it.

So you opt

find the workers at the benches that are putting the pieces

together, maybe gluing, doing the edge painting, adding the hardware.

And then they pass it to the machinist, the macchinistas, we call them in Italy, who only sews the bag.

So I was somebody working al banco on the tables, kind of reading the patterns and assembling all the pieces.

And because I had a background in design, I was also a

sample maker in terms of like looking at the tech pack and working with the pattern maker to kind of understand what the customer wanted and make the first prototypes of the bags and then revise the patterns and all that kind of stuff.

So it was a really cool experience.

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