weniger ist nicht genug – less is not enough

Used, but still usable, materials inspire me to find new ways in which to use them. My idea is born from a combination of wanting to re-interpret what I already have, develop unusual material compositions and using what is familiar. Nowadays, there is a lot of talk about the old style
conventions that shoes and handbags always have to match in terms of color and material. With my “shoe bag”, I wanted to match the shoes to the bag in the truest sense of the word. But I didn’t simply want to match the bag on your arm with the shoe on your foot on the basis of appearance only. I wanted to cancel out their spatial separation and so I invented my “shoe bag”, as a tongue-in-cheek laugh at the old fashion rule that these two accessories have to match. The sole of a shoe forms the basis or bottom of the bag, while the leather body provides the volume, in which all the necessary handbag contents can be stowed. Shoes and handbags cannot be matched any better than this.