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Hello from us here at Samantha Holmes. We've decided to start writing a blog to give our customers a little insight into us, what we do and what we are inspired by. Samantha Holmes is a luxury ethical womenswear label. You can have a look at our products over at our website.

The founder of the business is obviously the lovely Samantha Holmes herself who lives a beautiful Art Deco home on the North-West coast of Scotland with her husband and two little daughters. Samantha employs two members of staff, Gemma and Pauline to help her run her business.  

Primarily it will be Samantha's glamourous assistant Gemma who will be posting pictures and writing about all the goings on in the office, though Samantha might also pop in occasionally. 

A little bit about Samantha herself... Well, after studying Art History and Languages at Edinburgh University, Samantha went on to work for a variety of companies, a whisky company and an International trading company which imported cashmere to make pashminas to name a few. 

It was while she was working for the trading company on a product sourcing trip to Nepal that she noticed a gap in the market for ethically sourced Alpaca products and she thought "I could do that!". Fast track to today and she has since built a successful company designing and selling luxury, handmade, ethical, Aplaca womenswear, babywear and homewear, which she exhibits and sells internationally.