What happened to Kendal? (man purse update)

I've been curious about what happened to the Indiana Jones man purse company. I got the following email today, complete with typos and bad grammar:

SUBJECT: What happened to Kendal?

Where I (Kendal) have been since the closure of Kendal & Hyde. As you are probably aware Kendal & Hyde, the company I founded and designed for experienced financial difficulties and was closed in late 2016. Even now, over a year and half later, I continue to get emails from people looking to buy bags from me (before you email me with this request, I have none to sell). I have long since lost track of who has contacted me with such requests and it is for this reason that I am sending this email.

After the closure of Kendal & Hyde, I was approached by a various individuals wanting to either resurrect the Kendal & Hyde brand, hire me to design for their existing brand, or partner with me to create an entirely new brand. In the end, I entered into a design partnership with one such group called SALT Co.

SALT Co. is an entirely new company and brand with no connection to Kendal & Hyde the company, nor is it connected to the owners of Kendal & Hyde. The only link between the two is that I designed the product line of both companies.

The founders of SALT Co. were fans of the Kendal & Hyde aesthetic and wanted me to continue to design in the same vein. Their initial catalog of products with which they just launched effectively are incremental refinements of the most popular bags I designed fore Kendal & Hyde—if you liked the former brand I think you will like these as well.

I will continue to design for SALT Co. for the foreseeable future and am already working on some entirely new concepts for them including some women's bags that I expect will be available later this summer.

Their website if you are curious is SaltCoLeather.com.

I have not given SALT Co. your email address so if you would like to follow them, you will need to contact them/visit their site to get on their distribution list. Along the same lines, they being a different company have no record of you or your association with Kendal & Hyde and cannot help you with a Kendal & Hyde product—please do not contact them for this purpose.

For most of you this will be the last communication you will get from me and though Kendal & Hyde ended in disappointment in many ways, I am grateful for the many times I was able to hear from many of you.

Best regards,

Kendal