Keri Andriana

Biography

Multi-award-winning handbag designer, Keri Andriana is the CEO and Founder of UK affordable luxury handbag brand Amschela. Keri initially started her career as a lawyer in the areas of Criminal and Prison Law, before ending her 15-year legal career as an Adjudicating Judge in 2016 to enter the fashion industry.

Since launching the brand in 2017, Keri has steered the brand to become a recognised celebrity favourite and her brand has appeared at London Fashion Week to The BAFTAs, and made its way to numerous high-end magazines, featuring in Vanity Fair UK, Tatler, British GQ and British Vogue. The brand is currently stocked in UK, London, Los Angeles and Canada.

Keri holds several awards titles and nominations, including Entrepreneur of The Year 2018 (Rise Award), Business of The Year 2019 (MTM Award) and is a past nominee for both The Great British Entrepreneur Award and The British Small Business Awards. The brand is a three x London Fashion Week designer brand with selections in 2019, 2020 and 2021.

In 2020, her brand Amschela was made a designer member of the British Fashion Council and Keri herself was a nominee at the 2020 Fashion Awards. Keri also served as a Judge for the 2021 London Fashion Film Festival.

Keri is currently embarked on a mission to transition her brand to a full vegan brand and is a member of the SME Climate Hub, where she promotes sustainable and circular business models in fashion, transparency and traceability through the production and manufacturing lines of fashion houses, including her own.

In her spare time, Keri enjoys working with disadvantaged young people seeking to enter the fashion industry and provides valued mentoring and internships either within the brand or as a personal development coach.

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