Cole Haan

Handbags are definitely the new shoes. When ladies raged on purchasing handbags, which are now quintessential accessory in creating the perfect get up, designer shoe manufacturing company Cole Haan puts on the shoes of the growing designer handbag market and walked it with style.

Classic footwear makers Trafton Cole and Eddie Haan are the names behind the popular designer brand name established during the 1920’s. The two are known for their shoemaking brilliance and professionalism as Cole pays valuable attention to quality and incredible craftsmanship and Haan on first-class service and style.

Exuding sophisticated masculine quality and style, Cole Haan is recognized as the admired men’s footwear label, originally, when it started in Chicago during the early part of the 20th century.

Getting On With The Times

From capturing the stylistic ideals of the 20’s, when everyone gives value to elegance and quality craftsmanship, the American luxury brand company also managed to get on with the changing and upbeat times, when everyone moves with a more active lifestyle.

Being now owned as a separate subsidiary of Athletic brand company Nike, Inc., Cole Haan manufactures shoes incorporating the Nike Air technology, a high-tech innovation that allows the company produce footwear with state-of-the-art comfort, while maintaining its trademark creativity in coming up with a wide variety of styles for all types of fashion attitude.

Handbagging The Shoes
With a company that acknowledges the potential of going on with the flow of the market, the surge of the very dynamic fashion-oriented global designer handbag market gave birth to Cole Haan handbags.

The label, which has set standard for well-designed and expertly crafted footwear through the longest years, is now on handbags for women to sport. A fashionista, who makes sure that the handbag she carries perfectly matches her shoes, could never go wrong with Cole Haan.

For Cole Haan, the passion in creating their classic shoes should be equally reflected in their handbags, where one can touch, feel and carry an art of fine and unique craftsmanship through sporting a timeless design.

Cole Haan handbags, assured the company’s official website, are designed with the ultimate artisan quality and detail of chic and on-trend fashion offered in unique and eclectic lines that women would surely love to own.

Timeless Collections

On its Spring 07 collection, for instance, Cole Haan released the Modern Artisan Collection, which rediscovers the company’s valued heritage look of signature weaves of exotic braids reflected in the lines of Cole Haan G Series handbags.

Another display of trendy artisanship is its Village Paillette Collection, where elaborate metal decorations are fastened to the fine leather handbags adorned with strong design patterns, which added another unique certain edginess and sophistication to their lines of handbags. Paillette’s shiny metallic detail spawned to popular lines of medium flap and hobo handbags.

The company also spawned posh business leather handbags called the slim tote, which served as a perfect lugging for computer laptops for mobile career women. The slim tote not only provided expandable compartments but also defined business in style with its shiny nickel hardware and sleek waxed leather finish.

Moreover, carrying a Cole Haan handbag also lets you sport all kinds of fashion attitude from being trendy, hip, and cool to being relaxed, sophisticated and professional.

Expanding Heritage

Aside from the chic and unique handbags, Cole Haan has also brought its exclusive and highly engineered design heritage to other fashion items, which include women’s dress and casual footwear, belts, hosiery, small leather goods, fine outerwear, and watches, among others. It has also expanded its footwear items to loafers, slip-ons, oxfords, boots, sandals, dress shoes, and slippers.

Manufacturing fashionable footwear and accessories. The company operates more than 80 Cole Haan stores in about 25 US states and Canada, as well as another 40 stores in Japan. It also distributes it products in high-end fashion store retailers around the globe.