Dorothy Belshaw

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324 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Handbag Designer 101: The Stories Behind Handbag Designers, Brands, and Industry Icons · Trade Shows, Future of Wholesale & How Handbags Changed Retail | Emily Blumenthal & Dorothy Belshaw · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

So I think, you know, our focus is to have a broader collection of gift and lifestyle product.

Products that kind of cluster well together at retail, you know, which is...

accessories, including jewelry and handbags and scarves and candles and personal care and fragrance and smaller children's lay at baby items.

And so, and paper, like those things all sell really well together, cluster well together at retail.

And then to kind of

have a home category, which is really truly decorative accessories.

Because we do have interior designers that shop the show and by and large, they want to focus on home products.

So we can extend into tabletop, china glass tableware, you know, pillows, decorative accessories, objects, housewares, things of that nature.

So I think those are kind of the two big categories that need to be somewhat differentiated.

But there's also going to be some

bleeding between them because we have larger vendors that produce across all of those categories.

And then we have multi-line sales agencies that have a line package that extends across all of those.

So we sort of see those kinds of companies sitting in the middle as a sort of a bridge.

And then you get to design and craft artisanal work.

And some of this is about making by hand and some is just about small batch production.

So it may not be hand produced, but it's limited production because of either the process or the provenance where it's coming from, the design focus, the desire to manage inventory and not have too much and not over distribute.

And those kinds of resources do need to be together.

They tend to carry a higher price point.

The buyer needs to understand why.

So when they see that handbag, that jeweler, that scarf, that candle, they have to know why it costs twice as much as the one three aisles.

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