High Fashion Accessories – Jewelry Fashion – Meet Jane Ip Of Jeanne Lottie

My guest today is Jane Ip, the founder of Jeanne Lottie. Jane runs a successful high fashion accessories business. Jane started her company in 1985. She started out by designing and selling stylish and sophisticated handbags. Today apart from handbags her company’s product range includes shoes, jewelry, key chains and stationery. She has also come out with her own signature fragrance ‘Diamant Rose’.

She says: “When designing for our customers I believe there’s a little girl inside every woman and I design with that in mind. Our philosophy at Jeanne Lottie: True beauty is true happiness.”Read and get inspired.

How did you come up with the idea for your business ?

There was a void for fashion handbag in the industry…

You have been in the business for a long time (more than 20 years). Not many businesses can boast of such long term success. Can you please share with us your secret to longevity in business?

Passionate about my business.

You support a lot of charity organizations and charity events. Why is this so important to you and your business ?

To give back…Jeanne Lottie is Chinese is true happiness…everything that we do is with this philosophy in mind.

Yours is a highly competitive industry. How do you stay on top of it all ? Does competition ever faze you ?

Love it

What has been your biggest hurdle in business so far ?

Employees’ dishonesty.

If you had your time again, is there anything in business that you would do differently ?

No

Finally, your five keys to success ?

1. Love what you do
2. Be patient
3. Be creative
4. Be honest
5. Be smart

Sites Of Interest

Visit Jane’s website to get more information about her Jeannelottie.




This interview was published on 25th July 2007

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