GEORGE GINA & LUCY - - A Brief Interview
Written by Yvette N. Coleman

Tell us a little bit about how GEORGE GINA & LUCY started out?
 Me, my girlfriend Nicole and my best friend Oliver were fashion addicted since our youth, Nicole even from her childhood, as her farther is in the fashion business since a very very long time. We all know each other a very very long time, since we met when we were 10.

One evening we started to develop some garments – typical kitchen story - but ended up with a bag. Don´t ask me how this happened. None of us knows! But the style and concept of GEORGE GINA & LUCY was developed during an evening in September 2003.

 When we offered our first 1500 bags in 2004, they were sold out within days. Then a couple of months later we sold our 2nd collection  - about 10,000 bags.And again they were out of stock within a few days after they arrived in the shops. From season to season we increased the numbers, [and this year we have increased it up to] 750,000 bags - - and this within 4 years! People started to sell their bags with ebay, and got much more money for them [than] they paid in  the shops for it.

So bags which cost 150 USD in the shops were sold for 250 USD or even more.  Even used bags were more expensive than the people paid in the shops. There are forums /fanblogs in the internet only dealing with GEORGE GINA & LUCY, [where fans] show pictures of their bag or even of their bag collections - unbelivable! Most of the people have many more then one bag!! We have heard about one female fan who owns  more than 100 GGL bags and has a [seperate] room for them !

Explain the meaning behind the name… GEORGE GINA & LUCY.
We´ ve never told that story… and we probably never will.

 What are /were your inspirations?
 Fashion…Fun & (our) feeling

 Who do you envision wearing this collection?
 Fashionable people who look each day for another perfect bag for every color, style & mood

GEORGE GINA & LUCY can be purchased where and at what price points?
Our price range starts from 150 USD (retail) up to 220 USD for the Nylons. About 160 USD up to 300 USD for the specialties. The current leathers (which follow the nylon concept) are available for 300/400 USD.  Our finest leather bags cost 1000USD or more.

 What do you think will be the biggest trends for 2009?
 Our bags..:-) as we hope that the hype in Italy, Germany, Austria, … will also start in the USA and the rest of the world!

  What's next for GEORGE GINA & LUCY? 
 Our main product so far will still be the “nylon”, but we do have so many different specialties collections, that it´s hard to describe even those developments. If you would give me 3 more hours to describe, explain and show you all developments of the next 12 months, you´d be up to date..:-) Since we sell to many of the best multibrand stores in Europe, some of the best Italian tanneries invited us to do some leather developments with them, what we are quite proud of.  So in about a year, we will see some really special leather bags for which we even had the chance to design the leather and not only the bags. This was fun and the bags will be great (but expensive)!

For more info, visit: http://www.george-gina-lucy.com