Everyday life or a cheerful get-together with friends, a festive occasion, a hurried shopping trip, a relaxed stroll through town - whatever project takes you out into the world, this handbag will add even more color to your life. This truly cheerful bag is not only strikingly colorful, but also an elegant, loyal companion made of supple sheepskin. The upper leather is openworked using an artistic knotting technique, allowing the inner bag, a durable twill fabric made from organic cotton, to shine through as a subtle counterpoint. This gives the bag a visual lightness, thanks to which the colors appear powerful but not obtrusive. The carrying capacity of the handbag remains unbroken, with a zipper-secured compartment for your essentials, from smartphone to lipstick, from e-book reader to USB stick. Four slip pockets on one side and a leather-lined zipped compartment on the other separate your cards and small items for quick access. The bag also proves its versatility with the detachable shoulder strap braided into a colorful leather cord: With the strap, it proves its special chic as a cross-body bag, without the strap as a clutch.

Belgian label Allan K is considered a specialist in bags and shoes made of hand-braided leather. Founder Alain Kadic sums up the passion for his company and the products in one sentence: "Braided leather is in my DNA." No wonder, since the company's genesis dates back to the 1960s, when his father Ivan Kadic, an engineer with an inventive spirit, developed a spiral cutter capable of cutting a narrow strip hundreds of feet long from a leather hide. Many of his inventions, including an automatic leather weaving machine, soon find their way around the world.

In the 1980s, Alain Kadic, now an engineer himself, followed in his father's footsteps and traced the machines to India. Here, the craft of leather weaving has a long tradition. After working with various leather weaving companies for several years, he finally founded the Allan K brand in 2012 and from then on had his designs manufactured in Madras. The timeless-classic shoes and bags made of woven and braided leather are handmade there, which can take up to five days depending on the model. The leather for them is still cut on the machines that his father developed at the time.