That's what happens.

When you search and search and search and still don't want to find anything.

At least not what one, more precisely: what Dimitrios Tsatsas had imagined.

A bag, namely, timeless, classic and made of leather, in a quality that you can enjoy it for more than just one summer.

So what to do?

Whenever something is missing, not good enough or just too small, maybe out of the question for a man or made under conditions that you don't want to support.

The story that needs to be told is basically the story of a lack.

An embarrassment, if you will, and perhaps that's why it actually sounds too good to be true.

Christopher Schutte

Freelance author in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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Viewed in the light of day, the solution is obvious: you simply get to work yourself.

Because as an industrial designer, who Tsatsas was for the first time after studying at the Offenbach University of Design, you know best what you want, what you need and what you probably don't, and because your own father happened to be known for decades Marken works with his fine bag maker.

That's how it started.

It could have stayed that way.

Of course, Papa Vasillios had to do it more often.

The enthusiasm among friends and acquaintances was so great that soon a second, third, fourth bag of the model now marketed as "Lucid" left the Offenbach workshop.

“Look inside the heads of designers”

That was around ten years ago, and what has become of it can be seen in the German Leather Museum in Offenbach, which set up a great exhibition for the label's birthday.

In fact, it is not only a large part of the now more than sixty bags, pouches, pouches and accessories that Esther and Dimitrios Tsatsas have designed in their studio in Frankfurt's Gallusviertel that can be admired.

The first "Lucid" in classic black, for example, on the basis of which the label's first true classic, "Fluke", was soon created;

the business bag "Coen", with which Hillary Clinton drew much attention in the presidential election campaign, "Linden", "Anvil" and "Anouk", "Shift" and "Rhei" and "Malva" and and and.

Tsatsas even present one or the other model that, like “Nexus”, will only be launched later this year in a museum context.

And that's always extraordinarily seductive, if you stop for a while in front of one of the showcases or the exhibits that are spectacularly circling around the room - and you'd like to stop the carousel now, when nobody's looking.

The highlight of the show is that it not only presents the results and therefore the models.

And the bags are shown – just as they can be seen in selected shop windows all over the world and as Tsatsas have been presenting them in their own showroom at Paris Fashion Week for years.