Leather & Bag Makers in Milan
8 stores · curated ORBIS register
Borbonese builds part of its bag collection around the occhio di pernice pattern, associated with the house since its early history. L'Artigiano adds hand-worked leather bags and belts from a Brera workshop to the Milan selection. Manikomio Dsgn takes inspiration from naval parachute duffles for its Aviator's Kit Bag, made in Italy alongside related accessories.
Italian leather goods brand launched in 1991 by designer Alviero Martini, built around his geo map print inspired by an antique map he found in a Moscow bookshop in the mid-1980s; flagship stores in Milan and Rome.
Borbonese has made Italian bags since 1910, built around its partridge-eye (occhio di pernice) print. Its suede-and-canvas signature was conceived to be recognizable at fifty metres across the house's leather-goods collections.
Figus Designer has handcrafted Made-in-Milan bags and accessories since 1979, in both genuine leather and animal-free materials. Its online store sells bags, small leather goods, jewels and belts with worldwide shipping.
Artisan leather goods — hand-stitched bags, belts, and the Brera workshop where leather is still worked by hand in the old way.
Italian leather-goods label founded in 2020 by Massimo Cabbia, reinterpreting the WWII-era Navy parachute duffle ('kit bag') as the handmade, Italian-manufactured Aviator's Kit Bag and related bag and accessory lines.
Milan leather house founded 1928 by Stefano Serapian, an Armenian refugee who began selling handcrafted leather goods by bicycle around the city. Introduced the Mosaico woven-leather technique in 1947, still made at the Villa Mozart atelier.
Trussardi began in Bergamo in 1911 as a fine leather glove workshop, later expanding into Milan's leather-luxury lifestyle house. Its greyhound emblem, adopted in 1973, has marked the brand across a century of Italian leather goods.
Milanese architectural leather since 1937 — the Iside and Brera in pergamena calf, logo-free. Brand name is a portmanteau of valigia (suitcase) and extra. Original atelier was on Piazza / Via San Babila (first-party: Via San Babila 1).