Goldsmith turned industrial designer turned jewellery designer again, Saskia Diez is chaneling the zeitgeist in spades with her sensational new range of low key, classically styled travellers. Papier bags are hand crafted from Tyvek (a super tough synthetic paper by Dupont) making them lightweight, water resistant, recyclable and tear proof. The goldsmith’s touch isn’t missing though with the bags labelled in sterling silver. And I love the way Diez insists on presenting the bags in both their pristine ‘unused’ and rather more lived-in ‘used’ forms. Either way they look great.
And there’s not long to wait. The Munich-based designer is launching the Papier range through her online shop and selected stores in April 2009.
