Louis Jean Scherrer, the brand handbag designer
Louis Jean Scherrer, the brand handbag designer
KOMELY HANDBAG FACTORY
This fantasy world of a Botticelli woman rising from a shell serves as the ideal medium for the revelation of a silk-chiffon Evening handbag with a waterfall collar and butterfly cape.
Its luxurious yet dramatic qualities adorn Jean Louis Scherrer’s refined classicism. Scherrer moved into haute couture when, after the petrol crisis in the 1970s, he provided the wives of affluent Arabs with longer, covered-up fashions that satisfied the modesty requirements dictated by Islamic laws.
While also proclaiming their wealth, Parisian ballrooms have witnessed Scherrer’s sumptuous embroideries silk bags and glittering silks since he started as Christian Dior’s assistant, after an accident finished his career as a dancer at the age of twenty.
After Dior’s death and the choice of Saint Laurent as his successor, Scherrer left and opened his own business in 1962.