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"Bulgari's all-around advance has consistently been to acquiesce its accoutrements to attempt on its own merits," says Katigbak. "On our end, now that we've accustomed its amount business of adornment and watches in the Philippines, the time is appropriate to put the spotlight on Bulgari's bags."
The actress-model designs a limited-edition bag accumulation absolute jewelry
THE LUXURY bag bazaar continues to calefaction up. No beneath than high-end adornment cast Bulgari has accustomed this by training the spotlight on its covering appurtenances collection.
For its 2010 fall-winter accessories line, Bulgari has even broke Renaissance woman Isabella Rosselliniformer model, ancient actress, illustrator, biographer and environmentalistto architecture a '50s-inspired backpack bizarre with absolute amethyst.
In band with the Italian brand's all-around thrust, Bulgari's bounded benefactor launched Wednesday endure ceremony its fall-winter bag collection, including new versions of the iconic Chandra, with a appearance appearance alfresco its Greenbelt 4 abundance in Makati.
The accumulating draws a abundant accord of afflatus from Bulgari's ancestry as a adornment company. Interesting textures and above accouterments evocative of Bulgari's archetypal adornment curve and symbols such as Parentesi, bifold Bulgari, bill and B01 are axiomatic in a amount of bags.
Variations of the Chandra, the aforementioned bag accustomed by extra Julianne Moore, aswell appear in failing and afflicted calfskin and python that are either pearlized or done in metallic. Similar variations aswell administer to the added formal-looking Monite with its iconic bread studs and adjustable alternation straps.
For added accidental events, Bulgari aswell offers a band of failing totes and shoppers either fabricated of covering or laminated canvas with covering trims. Men can aswell get their easily on a amount of agent accoutrements and totes in atramentous or aphotic gray.
Growing importance
To added accentuate the affluence bag market's growing importance, Mario Katigbak, GM of Bulgari in the Philippines, had the absolute Greenbelt 4 abundance "cleaned" of all its adornment pieces to accomplish wayif alone for a nightfor the bags.
"A growing amount of Bulgari food the apple over are converting their food into accompanying shops," said Katigbak. "Half is adherent to amount articles consisting of adornment and watches, while the added bisected appearance accessories such as bags, sunglasses, ties, belts, pens and key chains."
In some big cities like Rome, Bulgari has a abstracted boutique alone adherent to accessories. In Tokyo, it has a multi-level abundance with ceremony attic featuring a specific artefact line.
Since both its branches in Makati (Greenbelt 4 and 6750) aren't big abundant to be angry into accompanying shops, Katigbak is because appointment a amplitude in Rustan's Makati to affection the brand's covering appurtenances and accessories collection.
For the meantime, Katigbak has accent a amount of key pieces from the accepted bag accumulating in both stores. He ordered a bound amount of pieces per style, including the limited-edition bag advised by Rossellini.
"In befitting with Bulgari's attitude of application alone the best materials, its accoutrements are ancient from the finest banknote and hardware," said Katigbak. "This and the affluent ancestry of bag-making in Italy accept resulted in chic, versatile, abiding and failing articles that are impervious to trends."
A cantankerous amid Hermes Kelly and Gucci Bamboo (because of its huge aberration lock), the structured and lady-like Rossellini bag could be one of the few commercially accessible accoutrements out there accumulation absolute jewelry. The aberration lock begin in foreground of the bag is ancient from amethyst, while its abject is fabricated of agleam enamel.
Big fan
Rossellini is conceivably one of the best bodies to accommodate her adroitness to Bulgari. Her backward mother Ingrid Bergman, a big fan of the brand, alien Rossellini to Bulgari as a child. A huge atramentous and white account of mother and babe walking appear Bulgari's Via Condotti boutique in Rome ancient in the mid '60s was displayed in the Greenbelt 4 annex on the night of the appearance show.
Apart from cutting Bulgari's baubles to appropriate events, Rossellini, calm with added celebrities, lent her name and face to the brand's affiliation with Save the Accouchement in 2009. Bulgari apparent its 125th ceremony endure year by affairs commemorative argent rings for the account of "Rewrite the Future," a altruistic activity aimed at abating the plight of bankrupt children.
"Isabella advised the bag based on how she would use it," said Katigbak. "She even paid absorption to the lining by allotment light-colored abstracts to accomplish it easier for women like her to acquisition what they're searching for."
Printed bolt in the anatomy of snails, which Rossellini aswell designed, makes up the bag's lining. Apart from abacus a blow of whimsy to the bag's interior, snails accept a appropriate abode in Rossellini's heart. The average animal was the accountable of one of her contempo documentaries on the environment.
Although Bulgari, a family-owned business based in Rome, has had a continued attitude of designing and affairs jewelry, it launched its aboriginal high-end bag accumulating alone in 1997. It opened its aboriginal abundance in the Philippines in 1996 at 6750 on Ayala Avenue.