Mulberry

great service and fantastic selection of bags. found perfect bags for my fiancée and staff helped alot.

Like a child to a sweet shop, my eyes fixated on this shop as I walked past. The wonderfully colourful window display trapped me. There were two horses from a fair ground carousel and jars of sweets. And then I noticed the horse was a vehicle to display the actual product being sold in this shop — handbags! Handbags galore! Bigs ones, small ones, extremely colourful ones and very expensive ones! The whole shop was dressed up to create an image of fun. It said to me — if you have one of these handbags you are fun, classy and crazy!
I really like this about the shop and went in to have a look even though the handbags are way out of my budget. I didn’t feel intimidated as one might going into a shop where you clearly can’t afford to buy anything. This may have been because of the female shop assistants who didn’t look very intimidating. I’m sure they smirked to each other as I walked out. HOw rude. Luckily I don’t need a handbag to express my personality for me. And I guess if you don’t have the cash to splash don’t even think about it!

Mulberry as a designer line is gorgeous, and if handbags are your thing then the finely crafted leather bags are sure to tickle the fancy of handbag lovers. However, thinking you’ve found a dedicated Mulberry store in the, yes we know, coveted and sophisticated Victoria Quarter, and assuming it would be interesting is a serious let down. It’s a snore is what it is. I’ve heard of not overcrowding a retail space so it looks like the sales racks at TK Maxx, but to call this sparse is a bit of an understatement. Being one of the only Mulberry stores I can think of that stands alone from a line at House of Fraser stores I’da thunk that Mulberry would take advantage of this. But despite hanging £600 bags from papier mache red and orange coated tree branches, the whole thing looks a little boring, and again, dare I say it, unremarkable. There’s nothing really to entice you in, aside to enquire about prices, as the large glass front exposes everything that the lower level has to offer, in fact when you do step in, the sales staff look kinda surprised you actually bothered. In the words of Simon Cowell, the whole experience is distinctly average.

Mulberry prides itself on high quality, high fashion clothing and accessories for both men and women.
The Mulberry bag is always sought after from fashionistas and always a staple wardobe accessory in Vogues capsule wardrobe collections!
It’s easy to be taken in by all the beautiful, yet quirky designs in store. But, as always in fashion, beauty comes with a nice, fat price. Shoulder bags will cost you around £650 which is way out of my budget it hurts. The quality is impeccable but I just can’t justify spending so much on a bag that I will probably get fed up of after six months. Maybe if i’d been born into a ridiculously filthy fortune I wouldn’t think twice… oh well!
Anyway, the shops nice, nothing spectacular but nice with a few key bits and pieces. There are a few affordable pieces… you just have to look really, really hard to find them.