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<ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.handbagclinic.co.uk/">Handbag Clinic</a> in London restores, authenticates, and resells <keyword id="170" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Designer">designer</keyword> handbags and shoes.</li><li>Cofounder Charlotte Staerck walks us through how an artisan restores a stained <keyword id="11280731" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="chanel-gst">Chanel GST</keyword>.</li><li>This includes wiping the bag with ink remover, using a bristle brush with foam, and repainting the bag.</li></ul>The following is a transcript of the <keyword id="21654" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="video">video</keyword>.Narrator: I am Charlotte Staerck, and I'm cofounder and CEO of Handbag Clinic. Today, I'm going to walk you through how our artisan Chloe will restore this <keyword id="11280730" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="grand-shopper-tote">Grand Shopper Tote</keyword> that has pen ink all over it. The <keyword id="118206" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="chanel">Chanel</keyword> Grand Shopper Tote reached around 2,000 pounds when it was able to be bought direct from Chanel. When this <keyword id="61642" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Restoration">restoration</keyword>'s complete, we would sell a Grand Shopper Tote for anywhere between 1,700 pounds and 1,950 pounds.The first thing that Chloe will do with this item is remove all of the ink. The most important part of restoring this bag will actually be the initial cleaning, because ink can spread and can create more staining. We use a special ink remover. So, you can see Chloe taking the ink remover with a small cotton bud and gently rolling this over the initial ink. This is so that we don't have any spreading, any further contamination of that ink to the bag. One of the main reasons for this is because ink is actually very oily, and oil and leather really don't mix. We then also use a range of products. Some are solvent-based, which will help to dry out any areas which have absorbed additional oils. And then we also use products which have natural oils embedded into them, which will then nourish areas that have dried, such as the corners or any areas where the ink has been drawn out of.We then use our specialist cleaning solution with the brush and a foam, which then will remove any excess product. Caviar skin leather is grained, so you need the brush to get into all of those grooves to be able to really make sure it's clean and make sure it's ready for the next stage of the process. Caviar leather, it gets its name from being a pebbled-texture leather, which means that it has printed into it this almost bubbled effect. If anything is trapped there or left in there, you would run the risk of that later peeling or coming away.Because it is ink that has contaminated this, the cleaning process alone will not remove this stain, and we must apply other methods. In our research and development team, we realized that ink stains, in particular, were very stubborn, so we created a metallic solution which actually blocks that coming through to make sure in a year's time you're not going to start seeing that ink stain come through. Chloe takes the specialist solution and she applies it lightly with an airbrush throughout every area where you can see the ink.Chloe will then create the color match, which we have discussed with the client in advance. This colorant, once created, will then be airbrushed on this bag. We always want to be as sparing as possible to ensure the texture of the leather is maintained. Because of the iconic CC quilting and the CC on the front of the item, which makes this item the iconic Chanel look, we want to make sure as little pigment gets onto those stitches as possible. And the bag is ready to go.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="118206" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="chanel">Chanel</keyword>'s iconic quilted leather handbags can last a lifetime if they're properly cared for. </li><li>Leather craftsman Gerry Gallagher has over 30 years of experience repairing luxury handbags. </li><li>He restores a $3,000 Chanel Grand Shopper Tote, or GST, that is discolored, broken down, and has a burnt pocket.</li></ul>The following is a transcript of the <keyword id="21654" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="video">video</keyword>.Gerry Gallagher: I'm Gerry Gallagher, master leather craftsman and founder of Leather Surgeons.The customer reached out to us, and I believe that she said that she was in a restaurant, and the <keyword id="6405772" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bag">bag</keyword> was burned by a candle.Chanel GSTs were a really popular <keyword id="650296" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Handbag">handbag</keyword>.Unfortunately, it's discontinued.They stopped making them now.I'm not sure we can get much for the bag in this condition, but I think that after I <keyword id="71648" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="restore">restore</keyword> it and get it up to speed, it should be able to go for $2,000 or $3,000.We had a problem with the fading in the 24-karat-gold hardware on the bag.The white metal underneath starts, or the nickel starts to show through.You need to take the stitches out carefully and one at a time, but the leather is on the dry side.It's fragile. Handbags are built around what we call stays.This is what happens when the stays break down.So, you get a bag that looks sloppy.So what you do is you put this behind the different sections of the leather, and you would align the front and the back.Now you would have a skeleton, something to hold the bag up.I would have preferred to be able to save the pocket, but in this case, we really had to replace the pocket. It was burned all the way through.I have to get this side open to be able to stitch in the new pocket that I'm gonna make properly.The most challenging part of this job will be making sure that the quilting that I add to the new pocket matches the quilting seams in the bag itself.So, as far as cleaning, it depends on what kind of leather you're cleaning.The blue is a waterborne leather soap.You could use that over the whole bag.It's not gonna do anything to damage the bag at all, but the other two are solvents.So you don't wanna use solvents on leather unless you absolutely have to for things that a waterborne product wouldn't remove, like dye transfer or ink.In taking the ink out, you're gonna wind up also taking some of the color out.The first thing we do is cut a pattern.So, you find the right leather, the exact leather the bag was made out of, and you just replace the pieces that you can.We've seen, you know, angry boyfriends cut bags with razor blades.I mean, there's things that happen all the time.I've got all the stays in the bag, and I have the bag structurally sound.A skill unto itself is restitching in the original stitch holes.You don't wanna create new holes and leave vacant holes.So, you take the pigments for the Chanel beige caviar.We use the white.We use the oxide, which is like a gol dish, yellowish color.We use, like, a medium brown.The syringe just forces you to use just a little bit.Now I'm ready to get started airbrushing the color.The idea is to use as little application as possible, so you could come back and do it over and over again and keep the bag looking good without having the texture suffer.You cut the leather twice as wide as you want the final product to be.You fold it to center, and then you fold it one more time, and then you stitch it.Chanel has a very specific way of carrying.So, they use interlaced leather chains."It's a beautiful thing.They've been doing this for years and years.I think that we have a circular economy.It gives somebody that otherwise wouldn't be able to afford to carry a bag if they were to have to buy it retail a chance to buy it in the secondary market, and have us restore it, and be able to carry it until they're ready to pass it on to somebody else.There is no reason why that bag can't last forever, really.There's definitely a sentimental attachment to handbags, especially ones that are passed on.They're boxes of history really, the handbags.

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