Akira Minagawa. Seriously. Everything is so adorable and sometimes boarder-lining grandma chic. Apparently, Minagawa designs a more "affordable"(we're still talking in the hundreds here) line. The name?
Japanese quirkiness + Dutch innovation = cute, (practically) storm resistant umbrellas. I'll say yes to that cos more often than not, the hardest thing about holding an umbrella in Vancouver (where it gets very windy) is keeping it unflipped. (It doesn't hurt that the umbrella is so cute though).