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Adorable Hand-Crafted Bags
Small family-owned firms and young individual designers, backed by the profound tradition of the leather craftsmanship in Turkey, create hand-bags with stylish silhouettes, admired by the global market too.
Bera Design’s handmade bags blend modern craftsmanship with local patterns, and crystallize Bera’s motto: “The Art of Luxury”. Luna bags are the ultimate in brand’s dedication to sustainability, as they are 100% hand-crafted by local women using recycled materials. Stockists: Bera Nişantaşı Store, Vakkorama, www.hipicon.com
Blinq is the hand‑crafted luxury‑bag label founded in 2019 by Turkish sisters Aslı İlkbahar and Burcu İsmailoğlu. What began as a shared love for travel and storytelling has blossomed into a brand that marries vintage charm with modern design, with each collection serving as a love letter to dream destinations like Porto, Morocco, Ibiza and Patmos. Stockists: Beymen, Hillside Beach Club, S9 Boutique and Sign In Alaçatı. Besides having designed a special line for Harrods in London, they also distribute to selected boutiques in Slovenia, Italy, Norway and Japan. www.bepeople.co
Fonfique is a vibrant, handcrafted bag and accessory brand founded in 2014 by Turkish designer Ceylan Kolat. Rooted in her love for color and illustration, every piece is adorned with original watercolor prints, hand-drawn by the designer herself. Her designs draw inspiration from nature, travel and fleeting moments —transforming everyday essentials like clutches, totes, coin purses, laptop sleeves, and AirPods cases into wearable art that sparks joy. The brand has a boutique in İstanbul’s posh coastal neighborhood of Bebek.
Manu Atelier was founded under the parent company of Yeşim Çanta (on the market since 1976) by Beste and Merve Manastır, who are the younger generation of their family. The brand continues to celebrate craftsmanship and manufactures bags and shoes for modern women. The box-shaped Mini Pristine line (above) is among our favorites. The brand is distributed abroad widely from Asia to Europe. Stockists in Turkey: Manu Atelier Showroom, Vakko.
Mlouye, founded in 2015 by industrial designer Mebrure Seymen, is a handbag label renowned for its clean, geometric silhouettes inspired by her Bauhaus and industrial design background. Mlouye has captured global attention, and earned fans among style icons for its distinctive, yet wearable sculptural bags .Stockists: Beyond brand’s flagship boutiques in Istanbul and Milano, Mlouye bags are also available in Vakko V2K Designers – Zorlu Center, as well as other spots in France, Italy and Moscow as well as Dubai, Doha, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Qimu is known to be the bag where Budai kept the seeds of life, according to Chinese Buddhist mythology. Founded by the mother-daughter duo Benan and Esin Terzioğlu, the brand’s design philosophy is based on simplicity, as its spiritual name also implies. Many of Qimu’s most popular designs come in stunning colors. Stockists: Vakkorama, Beymen, In-Formal Yalıkavak Marina and D Maris Bay.
This family company made its debut in 2015 with “Python Bag”, when Deniz Karmona Benbiçaço and Rozita Kandiyoti joined forces to make their common dream come true! The brand leans on high-quality materials and craftsmanship. The brand’s international distribution network includes spots like Los Angeles, Saudi Arabia, and Italy. Stockists in Turkey: Rossea Main Branch, Brandroom in Akasya, Emaar and Kanyon, Beymen Vadi İstanbul and Happy Mikrop Akmerkez, www.hipicon.com
