E&J Handbags

Our factory employs eight craftsmen and women. We have over 20 specialized machines from sewing machines, clicker for cutting, spraying machine for glue, 360 crease machine for stitching, heavy stitch machines, and optitex technology. The factory is in a light filled studio off of park avenue with seemingly endless rolls go beautiful fabrics and exotic leathers covering the walls. Our team of craftsmen is led by Farid Gadalla who comes from a long family history of makers and artisans. Farid possesses a unique ability to transform any idea into a detailed, multi-piece pattern both by hand and digitally with Optitex. You can loosely describe an idea or sketch to Farid and he can produce it immediately, from the pattern to the final product. Farid took over his father’s Egypt-based leather goods factory when Farid was 21 years old. Once he had children of his own, he moved his family to the U.S. and taught himself english while working random jobs. He began working in the studio a small handbag maker where he caught the eye of COACH New York. During the 15 years he was at COACH, he created his own patent, worked as a pattern maker, manager, senior manager, quality controller, and trainer for Coach’s factories in Vietnam and India. After leaving COACH, Farid continued to work in Asia for two more years with TBS Group based in Vietnam as the director and quality manager for the Handbag Division.
Today he is the very loved leader and teacher of our team. Farid is eager to make any product imaginable. He offers design, pattern making, and production. He truly does it all, like magic! Farid’s current customers include Kaila Katherine, and others (NDAs).