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Handbags with a Conscience – Introducing Spanish brand Lautem

FOUNDED in Spain, Lautem is an exceptional leather goods brand that promotes an unique blend of luxury, conscious production with timeless design.

Clean lines, boxy shapes and strong, rich colours form Lautem signature style. The designs are all carefully created to transcend fleeting trends – Lautem only launches a small number of new models per year, usually outside of the conventional fashion season dates.

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Lautem bag entitled Structurae – I Got Rhythm Yellow

Lautem redefines the “box bag” vogue and succeeds in fashioning a staple that bridges generational gaps. Luxuriously modest design appeals to women of all ages who, like the Lautem team, adore a simple, but excellently executed detail – hence the brand’s celebrity following which includes Emma Watson and Eva Herzigova.

The brand’s founding principle is ultimate extravagance with ethical edge which it combines with the exceptional skill of its makers with every stage of the bags ’construction led by the notions of excellence and durability.– resulting  in a modern classic destined to last decades.

ponsa1A model with a Lautem bag Structurae

The creative mind behind Lautem is designer Elena Garcia Silva whose prime interests and experience come from restoration, architecture and furniture design, which all manifest themselves in the sophisticated practicality of Lautem bags. In her own words, she is “an architect is first and foremost a thinker-designer. From a blank sheet you start creating using your knowledge and experience”.

Lautem relies on traditional craftsmanship and handmade production to create their exceptional goods – all elements are made in native Spain. The assembling of the bags takes place in a small village Ubrique, known as the homeland of some of the most prestigious leather specialists in the world, with the leather first treated in Catalonie and the handles manually manufactured in a small factory in Valencia.

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Another view of a Lautem bag in yellow

Most importantly, however, Lautem follows the growing trend of brands turning to highly skilled crafts people capable to produce their output. The local Spanish artisans producing the bags for Lautem use of historical techniques which are the main component of the final item. The brand also stresses the importance of fair treatment and payment to all of its employees.

by Magda Pirowska

Lautem bags are available from their online store and selected stockists – details here