This bag starts with choice of the material made with collaboration of incredible know-how by a well known Florentine “man of leathers”. The form and design wanted by style is given to the bag by the expert hands of a prototype artisan.

The leathers are all among the top luxury rated ones; crocodile, snake and ostridge.  We chose them one by one for our bags. Select them for perfection. The shopper is a big bag and needs a perfect animal to have an amazing frontal crocodile part. As you can see I have no cuts in it. It’s not small pieces of leather sown toghether. It is one and only one frontal and back. So this means the leather had to be perfect.  Once we select them we keep them in a controlled environment as to mantain their beautiful nature. Everything from choice of leather to first prototype is done exclusively by hand. The beautiful look these leathers have when put under sun light is due to this process and all the incredible care.

The heart handle shopper in crocodile is the must beautiful thing I’ve ever seen… It’s really the top of my collection Le Forme!

This entire collection began with the idea of bags that had to look like paper on which a little girl had glued one of her favorite forms such as hearts and clouds.

What seemed quite easy and simple at the beginning ended up very complicated and almost impossible! There were so many challenges.
First of all I wanted the bag itself to keep its paper bag form but i didn’t want it to be stiff. Actually you can even bend these bags. The handle became functional and not only ornamental since we had to study a special material inside the handle so that the handle could take a lot of weight but not loose its form. We patented the handles. It took us six months to come up with this fantastic structural solution.
The bag’s softness was also a challenge because it had to hold the weight of the handle but at same time be so soft as to be folded. This has been the mother of all the other shopper that I will release in the months to come. We’ve overcome all the challenges and we’ll be able to finish all the fifteen collection handles!

The materials used are ostrich, crocodile, calf napa leather. There will be a version for the beach too.

Inside we use spaccato di capra, silk and cotton.