A luxury designer brand bag brand created by a designer who couldn’t even read the alphabet at school because of crippling dyslexia has quickly become celebrities’ new favourite accessory.
The Natalie Dennis collection is attracting high profile fans including S Club star Rachel Stevens and Made in Chelsea‘s Liv Bentley as sales rocket.
Stunning Liv treated herself to a new £600 designer bag to cheer herself up after splitting from long term boyfriend Tristan Phipps.
She took her newly single life in her stride as she was spotted leaving Harrods with the Curve Natalie Dennis bag for her new single chic look.
Meanwhile Rachel Stevens took to Instagram to pose as a devotee of the brand, which is one of the UK’s fastest growing luxury designer bags.
She praised the ‘gorgeous bags’, adding ‘such beautiful quality and design.’
Natalie Dennis is taking the fashion world by storm with her elegant designer handbags, despite only leaving school with one GCSE. She only launched her brand eight months ago and it is already available in Harrods.
On her journey to becoming a renowned designer she decline countless job offers from Alexandra McQueen, Mulberry, Burberry and Gucci and overcame crippling dyslexia.
Natalie said, ‘I always knew I wanted to have my own luxury brand and so didn’t want to work for those designer brands because I would have given my own style away.’
She began to sell her own homemade handbags in Portobello Market, and within a year was pushing thousands of units a month for brands like Ted Baker, Country Casuals, Faith and Austin Reed.
Despite being very successful, she got fed up with keeping track of trends and feeding it back into those brands. It didn’t fulfil her artistic needs, she had a desire to create bags that would never go out of style.
She was passionate about creating handbags with timeless looks, that people bought for the aesthetics and because it made them feel good, rather than just to fit in with the fast fashion trends.
Natalie’s creative flare has been there from a young age, she started designing handbags at only three years old and hasn’t stopped since.
She would use cardboard boxes, paper and scraps of fabric create her own handbags with designs on.
Nature and the outdoors have always been a huge inspiration in her designs and her aim of trying to create a timeless look.
‘I love the beach and have spent a lot of time there, the waves and patterns across the beach inspired my designs. My curve handbag came from the fascination I had with 3D structures within nature’.
Her flouring brand focuses on quality and puts sustainability at the centre of her business plan. She is currently in the middle designing bags which use recycled leather and even has future plans to release a vegan leather range.
