Anupa (.net) wanted to start a woman handbag shop made of eco-friendly materials.
And she uses male models (footballers to be specific).
“My bags are different” she said (talking about differentiation – male models? green handbags? offshored boutique?)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/7887561/From-London-to-Vietnam.html
Cosmopolitan? Obviously. Her leaving the corporate safety net to follow her gut instinct
reminds me of another guy who left Wall Street to start sandals made out of abandoned tires.
Or a Vietnam vet who builds wheel chairs that can navigate Vietnam’s tough side walks.
These are a special group of people who never mind the heat, the smog and the maze
of bureaucracy.
When they see an opening they go for it.
I wonder where would we be today had it not been for people like Edison, Marconi and Marie Curie.
Problem-solvers, adventurers and yes, romantics.
And they keep at it.
Their time-tables are different from ours.
Their aims were results that benefit mankind.
We need people who see the need, and fill these need with solution and imagination (solar airplane or bags that won’t rip, made of eco-friendly materials, carried around by non-starving male models).
This new spin on a century-old “problem” women everywhere are facing. It is as workable and global as its creator, who was born an Indian, and moved from London to Saigon to set up shop.
And not a sweat shop built on back-breaking cheap labor, but a shop to produce eco-friendly products.
In one fell swoop, she manages to put her stamp on the bag and the city she chooses to live.
That stamp of approval goes a long way, perhaps by her customers who carry her bags while shopping back in London.
At least, she helps save their shipment fee and containerizing. No wonder the typhoon of EVERGREEN shipping company started to order
smaller vessels now that gadgets get more miniaturized. Maybe her bags should be as well.
Thang Nguyen 555 