Anya Hindmarch
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m joined by one of the most established names in British luxury - the designer and businesswoman, Anya Hindmarch. Anya started her accessories business as a teenager, inspired by the leather bags she saw on her travels in Italy. Within a few short years, her designs were stocked by some of the most prestigious fashion outlets around the world.
She is known for using fashion as a force for good. Back in 2004, her £5 white tote bags, with the slogan “I’m not a plastic bag” written on them, graced the shoulders of A-listers around the world, sparking a global frenzy with queues of over 80,000 people outside Sainsbury’s shops, trying to get their hands on the canvas bags.
More recently, during the pandemic, she’s worked with University College London to design a special holster for frontline NHS workers to wear, along with thousands of PPE gowns.
Just as fashion takes inspiration from cultures and destinations all around the world, so too does Anya, whose travel diaries take us from Morocco and Myanmar to Japan, Italy and glamorous Mustique.
Destination recap:
- Marrakech, Morocco
- El Fenn, Morocco
- Kasbah Beldi, Morocco
- Cap Ferrat, France
- Florence, Italy
- Mustique
- Park Hyatt, Tokyo, Japan
- Tokyo, Japan
- Patagonia
- Ethiopia
- Beirut
- Egypt
- India
- Inle Lake, Myanmar
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is in memory of my beloved uncle, Anthony Lean. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm Holly Rubinstein. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm a travel and entertainment journalist. |
| 0:18.2 | And here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest |
| 0:21.8 | about the seven chapters in their life's travel diaries. |
| 0:25.2 | From their earliest childhood travel memory and the first place they fell in love with |
| 0:29.9 | to their hidden gem and what's at the top of their travel bucket list. |
| 0:34.1 | We'll be uncovering their adventures around the world and the travel experiences |
| 0:38.4 | and destinations that have shaped their lives. So I hope you're all having a good week. |
| 0:44.0 | I've just booked my first trip of the year, which I'm so excited for. I'm heading up to |
| 0:49.0 | Scotland at the end of May, I hope, doing a road trip through the Highlands that I was meant to do last year. And over on my |
| 0:56.3 | Instagram at Holly Rubinstein, I've been asking you where you're heading first on your |
| 1:01.6 | travels as we ease out of lockdown. So the Bristol botanist, she says I'm heading to the South |
| 1:08.5 | Devon coast near to Hope Cove. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm actually looking at places to stay near there right now. |
| 1:14.3 | I want to take my mum, who's actually coming up later on the podcast, so stay tuned for her. |
| 1:19.7 | Rebecca Holloway says she's heading to Northern Ireland as soon as she can, and Ivy Manilang is looking forward to going to Ireland too. Rache Everett is off to Northumberland. |
| 1:31.3 | Ruth Haft is heading to the beautiful Forest of Dean in July. That's where Netflix films Sex Education, |
| 1:37.4 | isn't it? It looks beautiful. Tinky T-77 says her first day will be at the Gower Hotel. |
| 1:43.5 | Maybe that's the Gower in High Park or I see that |
| 1:46.7 | there's also one in Swansea, so have a lovely time wherever you go. And N. Jolner is going on a |
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