Design begins with a question. For SANAUI’s first leather collection, the question was simple: what does it mean to make a bag that is both entirely functional and genuinely considered? Not decorated. Not branded. Considered — in its proportions, its construction, its relationship to the body that carries it.
The answer took the form of a collection built around geometry, movement and the logic of interlaced form.
Architecture as a Starting Point
The references that shaped this collection were not drawn from fashion. They came from built space — from the way light moves through a latticed screen, from the rhythm of interlocking geometric forms, from the structural intelligence of surfaces that are both decorative and load-bearing.
What interested SANAUI was not the visual result of these references but their underlying logic. The way a form can be both open and closed. The way a cut-out can reduce weight while adding presence. The way proportion determines how an object sits in space — and how it moves through it.
These ideas were translated into leather through a process of reduction. Each bag in the collection carries only what is necessary. The shapes are clean, the lines deliberate, the volumes considered. Nothing has been added for effect.
Crafted in Italy
The collection is produced in Italy, in workshops where leather craftsmanship is understood as a discipline rather than a process. The choice was not made for its associations. It was made for what it makes possible.
Italian leather production at this level offers a particular kind of precision — in the selection of hides, in the handling of edges, in the construction of structures that hold their form over years of use. It is craftsmanship in the most literal sense: knowledge applied to material with the intention of making something that lasts.
“A bag can be functional and still carry the presence of an object.”
At SANAUI, the Italian workshops are understood as collaborators. The design language comes from the brand. The execution — and the knowledge that makes it possible — comes from the hands that build it.
The Blue Within
Open any bag in the SANAUI leather collection and you will find the same interior: a deep Mediterranean blue, precise and consistent across every piece.
It is a detail that is never seen from the outside. It exists only for the person who carries the bag — a moment of recognition that belongs entirely to them. The blue was chosen for its specificity. It is not decorative. It is a signature, placed where signatures should be: quietly, and with intention.
The SANAUI emblem, pressed into the leather of each piece, recalls the form of an interlaced ribbon — a reference to sfifa, the handworked trim that appears throughout the brand’s ready-to-wear. Here, translated into a mark rather than a technique, it connects the leather collection to the broader SANAUI design language without repeating it.
Objects in Motion
The bags in this collection are designed to be used. They are sized for the demands of a real day — structured enough to hold their form, light enough to carry without effort, proportioned to work across contexts without adjustment.
This is what it means, at SANAUI, to make a contemporary object. Not a piece that references the past or anticipates a future. A piece that belongs to the present — to the movement, the pace and the particular demands of the life being lived now.
The first SANAUI leather collection is an introduction. To a design language. To a way of working. To the belief that an object made with genuine attention will always be worth carrying.
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