Jonathan Charles Handbags
Company profile
Our aim is to create fabulous, funky, kookie handbags for fashion conscious women of all ages who demand individual, functional fashion accessories at sensible prices. Our unique design style combines popular themes, bright colours and functional features with quirky styling to create accessible, fun & highly fashionable & collectable designs.
The firm is based in London and formed out of the partnership of entrepreneur, Charles Rudgard and designer, Jonathan Burge. With a degree in Fashion from Bristol University, Jonathan Burge has more than 5 years designing accessories for some of the top UK fashion houses including Urban Outfitters, Joshua Joseph, Miss Selfridge, Top Shop, John Lewis & Debenhams.
Charles Rudgard, as managing director, has over 10 years experience of business start-ups, business management and consultancy in UK, France, Holland, Russia and Czech Republic. Working with companies such as Egg, Prudential & Albert Heijn he has a specialist interest in customer experience and customer service projects. His approach to business design is flexible, fun, fast moving and dynamic. He has a degree in Management Science, Lancaster University.
We are in the process of expanding into Europe. We already have distribution deals in Holland, Belgium & Luxembourg and are actively seeking additional distribution arrangements for other countries.
If you have any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Please email or call Lorraine on +44 (0)845 201 1695.