Handbag Stories
Friday, November 21st, 2008
I recently helped out my friends at Greet and Wendy at WeJane and Ute at Colibri with a paper they presented at Esomar, about women and their handbags. You can read all about it for yourself at Globalbagstories.com.
I was delighted and honoured to be included as the UK partner on this project and I had an absolute ball doing the fieldwork. I got to talk to some amazing ladies about their handbags while Richard took some fantastic, often poignant, pictures of them in-situ. We blogged about it so that the ladies writing the paper could get feedback on our interviews as we completed them. This format also allowed for further probing on their parts should they have any additional questions. For me, this is a great way to run an international project. It’s quick, it’s insightful and it’s actually quite fun to do!