There is tea packaging inside your bag

A structured bag needs something rigid inside it. Without a core, leather collapses and the silhouette disappears.

What is usually used

The industry standard is a synthetic board, produced new, bought by the roll. It works, it is cheap, and nobody thinks about it because nobody ever sees it.

That last part is exactly why it is worth looking at. The invisible parts of a product are where most of the compromises hide.

What we use instead

Selected bags carry recycled cardboard recovered from tea packaging inside their structural core.

It is not a symbolic gesture and it is not decorative. It is a material with the right rigidity, already produced, already in circulation, that would otherwise have been discarded after one journey from a warehouse to a shelf.

The same logic as the leather

The leather comes from deadstock, sourced through responsible networks and partners such as La Réserve des Arts in Paris. Premium hides that already exist, chosen one by one rather than ordered new.

The cardboard follows the same reasoning, applied to the part nobody sees.

Why it matters

Sustainability tends to be discussed as an environmental commitment, which it is. It is also something simpler: a way of valuing what is already there.

Making something new out of what already exists is harder than ordering a roll of board. It is also the only interesting constraint we have found.