By NICOLE VALICEK
Local designers are bringing their own quirky touch to the handbag market. 103972 Picture: NICOLE SULTANA
TWO local ladies added a quirky untraditional spark when they bought their special wares to an annual fund-raiser event.
Hobson Bay designers Roz Kennedy and Indre Kisonas sold their unique handbags at the annual Williamstown Football Club Fashion Show Fund-raiser last Friday.
This year the club raised money for three-year-old Mia Wellington who was diagnosed with Global Development Delay.
This means the fine motor skills young children normally develop e.g. walking and talking have not yet occurred for Mia and unfortunately her future development of these skills is uncertain.
Roz and Indre established Temple Birds in 2012 – wanting to specialise in unique and idiosyncratic handbags.
“We’re both creative people we just saw a gap in the market, there was nothing out there that was personal and a bit different,” Roz said.
Roz is a graphic artist by trade and Indre has a background in industrial design.
“Every bag is distinctive and no bag will ever be the same – each one is individual.”
All items are hand-crafted from many unusual upcycled and unexpected products including paperbark from the indigenous Melaleuca tree, gorgeous linen tea towels, encyclopaedias, Little Golden Books, novels, vinyl records and album covers.
Roz said the duo was excited to be a part of the Williamstown Football Club Annual Fashion Show and proud to give the profits of each bag sold to the club.
Any orders placed before the end of September 2013 will have those profits donated as well.
For more information find Temple Birds on Facebook.
