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.

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.

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.