Alessa

The Alessa in black suede is the small soft shoulder bag for the dry day and the evening, and it is not the bag for the laptop or the rain. The Versa Carryall is: 50 cm of black pebbled leather with a grain that takes weather, a full working day inside, a tote that becomes a backpack when the hands are needed. The suede does the fine afternoon and the dinner; the Carryall does the commute, the drizzle and the day that ends with the shopping. Same black, nap beside grain, the small soft bag beside the largest working one. A wet Thursday: the Carryall goes to the office and the suede Alessa stays dry.

The Alessa in black suede and the Alessa in black pebbled leather are one shape at two textures. The suede is the softer, drier-day piece, the one for the evening and the clear afternoon. The pebbled one is for the rest: the rain, the commute, the market, the days the nap would rather not see. Same size, same strap, same zip, so the hand knows the bag before the eye does. Black with black, so the wardrobe does not change when the weather does. On a fine Saturday night the suede goes to dinner; on the wet Monday after, the pebbled Alessa goes to work.