Vintage by Jeannette handbags were first featured in the 2005 fall issue of The New York Times Style Magazine that said Jeannette Gueola was "serving up L.A.'s most delectable handbags" and that they were blowing out of the store at Gaia in Brentwood, Calif.

Each purse is hand sewn with deconstructed vintage materials to create a new design. 

A resident of California, Jeannette studied art and literature in Paris where she is photographed here in the late 1970s.