'Of course we still want beautiful things—but we want them to transcend the whims of fashion, to contribute as little as possible to the fraught state of the planet, and to remain beautiful for a very long time.'
For his 21st birthday, the late British actor Richard Attenborough received the gift of a Tanner Krolle suitcase. “Forty years later, we fixed the handle!” Tabitha Simmons says, laughing. Simmons, who is now Tanner Krolle’s creative director, explains that this kind of longevity—she calls it “slow luxury”—is what she loves and admires most about the heritage brand.
Simmons’s latest creation—an irresistible handbag called the Nightingale, which has the air of a modern vintage valise—is made from an unglamorous-sounding material called—wait for it—“waste leather.” As tanneries grade skins, fully 20 percent of this waste leather is headed for the trash bin—or it was until Tanner Krolle rescued it. “It’s completely shredded, then bound and made into a roll—you can stomp on it,” Simmons explains. If the specifics remain slightly opaque, that is intentional.
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