Washingtonian
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Founding a luxury handbag brand was not something that DC physician Verniese Moore had planned to do. Instead, the idea came to her as a joke from her husband. It was the summer of 2022 and the pair were vacationing in Brazil when he said playfully, “The next time you bring a handbag [home], it should have your name on it.” Immediately, she says, a lightbulb went off. “I was just like, ‘Wait a minute! A bag with my name on it!’ He said it jokingly, but I took him seriously, and I started to look into how to create a handbag.”
Written by Lydia We
