Radley is a London-based, British accessories brand that designs and manufactures handbags, purses and other women’s accessories for the UK and international markets. The brand was founded by Lowell Harder in 1998. Justin Stead is the current CEO of the brand and was appointed in May 2015.

In an October 2012 interview with Drapers trade magazine, Radley founder Lowell Harder said of the conception of the brand’s dog-shaped logo ‘we were experimenting with different things and one of the designers came up with it. We hung it off a bag and people loved it.’

The dog logo, which hung from the bag strap, was put on a few ranges in the collection for Autumn/Winter 2000 but was added to most of the range by 2001 because of increased interest from customers. After the departure of Harder in December 2010, the new design team implemented a new version of the dog logo which saw a negative reception from the consumer. In her October 2012 Drapers magazine interview, she explained why the original design of the logo was reinstated on her return ‘He was changed after I left and was made too butch. The idea of him was that he was meant to look cute and fun so we are going back to that…it was important to us that we changed him back.