Yes, yes it’s finally here

And its true, many of you made fun of me for taking so long to do this, but I could’t help it. I kept seeing bits to  ’fix’ and couldn’t allow it to come out to live and be out-there online.

But now that I managed to press that horribly terrifying button called PUBLISH, I’ll admit that it’s a great  feeling of relief and I’m actually glad its out there.I don’t know, I was told lately that this blog is turning up to  be pretty personal, although in my head it wasn’t that at all. Reading back; I guess I can see why this may be  the case. Maybe its just who I am, and can’t do something without being personally and emotionally so utterly involved… If I learned to live with it, so can you. What I’m trying to say(hopefully) is that I’ll do my best to keep the website less Keren and more K.Brat, so fingers crossed.

‘Boundaries’ is my new collection, which is kinda the reason I went through with the website finally. The collection is a composition of leather bags and belts, where I really explore my love to the craftsmanship of working with leather as a medium. The collection was inspired by ‘Boundaries’(not very literally but more surrealistically and look and the purpose of boundaries and their place in our society. Physical and Emotional boundaries at the same time. I know this all sounds very conceptual for bags and belts but this idea kept me going while I hand stitched every tiny bit of this collection. ‘Boundaries’ was all handmade with extra love and devotion in London UK. I used the best materials I could(very anally) find, and I combined these with beautiful silks I brought from India and Nepal, used as linings.

So for me it was a big week, but then I received an email that Salinger died. He was 91 I think, and I saw so many people have dedicated their recent blog post to him. He was truly loved. Its almost unimaginable to think of being a teenager without adoring Salinger, like you can’t really be 16 and not think Dali totally gets you(which reminds me, today Danny-my beloved husband told me he had never read the Catcher in the rye, hmmm… I guess he just ‘forgot’ to mention it before we got married!).

I, just like all the other teenagers around me, absolutely adored his books. I was in-love with Zooey, as I read descriptions of him, I felt he was standing they, so beautiful, just next to me. I cried for the family when they mourned Seymour. It made me wonder whether he was selfish or not. Salinger has brought these characters to my life (and to so many other’s lives, I know I’m completely not special about this) and made them into real living breathing human beings. I’d miss him, although I feel ashamed to say that for years I’ve neglected him. My friend Ido says he didn’t suffer any pain as much as he knows. I guess that’s comforting. I’m so grateful to Salinger and to the livelihood of the Glass family.

Oh, I almost forgot;I guess this is supposed to be about my website, and fashion and bags and belts… please visit my site when you can and I hope you’ll like it www.kbrat.co.uk

And perhaps a bit more important, please take a second to thank Salinger, because for most of you, he was probably there in your heart at some point, if not always. And he must have played a part in your teen life, showed you beauty, light and grace,conversations with Bessy in the shower room and kisses on the train dock

Good night

K