The Guardian (U.K.): From customisation to DIY handbags — how customers became designers

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1 min readJan 3, 2017

Customisation was one of 2016’s strongest trends in fashion and it’s set to take flight in 2017 as the consumers — once dictated to by the industry’s all-powerful designers — becomes the designers themselves.

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Now, smaller startups are developing something that tends towards the bespoke, moving away from adding something to an existing design, to creating it in the first place.

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