The bags were birthed from years of dreaming, collaborating and conversing with
people across Sydney, Australia. Suppliers, makers, family run businesses and local artisans.
Craftsmanship and collaboration are integral to the brand and its centrepiece design, the Belt
Bag, from which this collection was born.

The first iteration of the Belt Bag came to life during a period of grief. From the confines of that
place, the designer leaned towards austerity in all aspects, responding to a life that suddenly felt
small and constricted.

A design was imagined that echoed the conditions of this period. She saw a wearable object
that seemed unwieldy and slightly excessive, defined by its various suggestions and
attachments, but unexpectedly practical—a play on the everyday.

In an attempt to return to form after acting as a carer to a loved one, the designer
frankensteined scrap leather and left over buckles into the first iteration of what is now the Belt
Bag in its present form.

Straps tumble to the floor as the wearer walks, its ends drag along the ground and its core
brattily slouches the more it becomes stuffed with ephemera.

The intentionally placed belts of the wearable sit in symmetry, none taking deliberate
precedence over the other, with each undulating strap working to harmonise the bag.

Forged from a motif of ‘restraint’, the bag informs one’s uniform. It does not oppose change but
rather sits alongside it, unwavering in its durability and resilience.

This first collection is a carefully curated meeting of leather and metal, quality and craft, with
each bag handmade locally by leather workers in Redfern, Australia.

It’s an homage to the feat of pressing forward, a sentimental offering from the designer to the
wearer. Something to take pleasure in. Again. And again.

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Angel Robertson is a designer living and working on Gadigal land in the Eora Nation. She has
worked in fashion across stage, print media and moving image for over a decade.