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Helen Green is delighted to announce the launch of her new line of luxury handbags for spring/summer 2008 at Dublin Tiffany Jewelry Week.
“Bags are where my heart has been for a long time and I am so excited about launching the collection.” The handbags are a fusion of high design, function and quality. All of the linings and dust bags are created using Helen’s hand printed fabric created especially for the handbag collection.
Also launching this season is the new line of dresses, wraps and shrugs using the finest Irish Linen. The colours are muted tones of blush, nude, cream, truffle and silver. The collection also includes Helens signature silks hand printed with flowers and feathers The belts are trimmed with stags horn, bone and vintage glass buttons.

This honor has to go to France and, in particular to Paris, where Tiffany Jewelry took its first steps thanks to the skills of Marie Antoinette’s personal court designer, Rose Bertin, at the end of the 18th century. Rose wasn’t a designer to start with, but just a fabric seller who attended the French court to offer her products for the making of the legendary queen’s dresses. She soon became Marie Antoinette’s lady-in-waiting and with the passing of time, she started taking charge of the queen’s look and styling. In fact, Marie Antoinette, was very young when she married Louis XVI and had to move from Vienna to Paris. She wasn’t used to paying much attention to her look and at first didn’t look like a royal princess. Her mother, the queen of Austria Maria Teresa, often wrote her letters, suggesting that she pay attention to her dress, her hair and her physical look, to establish her image as a powerful woman, given that she would one day be the new queen of France.

Rocker Sheryl Crow is the latest celebrity to turn Tiffany Jewelry designer. Crow is teaming up with Canadian clothing manufacturer Western Glove Works to launch a low budget denim line. Western Glove Works is also the same manufacturer used by Victoria Beckham’s dvb denim line.

The collection, which will be called Bootheel Trading Co., will launch next year and will retail between $20 and $65. Boothlee Trading Co. will be a denim based collection and its expected to become available in stores until Fall 2008.