He also owns Adrienne Vittadini, a women's knitwear line, and Carolee Designs, a women's high-end accessories brand.
Those who care passionately about such high-end accessories may recognise the handbag straight away as a Hermès Birkin.
He said he has seen brides pair the company's less expensive gown with family heirlooms, like veils and jewelry, and others opt for high-end accessories.
Producers of high-end accessories, especially handbags, are plagued by competition from counterfeit goods ("knockoffs"), sometimes produced using inferior materials in the same factories as the authentic goods.
The high-end accessories gave an additional frisson of intrigue to a collection that already had models with hair like Madonna-goes-Punk Madonna-goes-Punk Madonna-goes-Punkr world.
There is not one, but two new Marc Jacobs boutiques in Akaretler Row (Suleyman Seba Caddesi 16; 90-212-381-4969; and Sair Nedim Caddesi 14; 90-212-381-4979; www.marcjacobs.com), where the season's high-end accessories are displayed as if they were the crown jewels of the Ottoman Empire.
Snakehive is a British company that makes high-end accessories but at competitive prices.
In the early days, the focus was on high-end accessories and "once in a lifetime" events like weddings or pregnancy.
I felt there was an opportunity to fill the space for high-end accessories, particularly exotics in the men's — as well as women's— market.
The brand was founded in 1961 as 3TTT — Tecnologia del Tubo Torino (Turin Tube Technology) – and is famous for its high-end accessories such as bicycle handlebars.
