London born designer Tamara Fogle creates elegant hand-made handbags that never shout but are always noticed.

Raised near Portobello Market, she worked in interior styling and antiques before embarking on a career fashioning ranges of uncompromisingly practical yet sensuously alluring handbags, purses and leather accessories.

Her picturesque studio, at the end of a verdant garden in Notting Hill, brimming with hand-tools, vintage fabrics, period buttons and metal fittings, is enveloped in the alluring aroma of the supple colourful leathers that are the heart of her designs.

Whether it is for a night out with the girls, an elegant special occasion or - as she uses hers - simply for walking a gorgeous black Labrador around Hyde Park, Tamara Fogle has a range of handbags for every mood or occasion.