The Paris-based Polène is a stylish new contender in the leather-goods space. Now, it's going global.
This, Mothay hopes, is as much due to the bags' microfiber drafting process as it is the materials that complete them. Polène uses full-grain calf leather that comes sourced from Italian and Spanish tanneries and certified by the Leather Working Group , an international organization that claims to offer more sustainable and transparent leather goods.
Polène knows it's not enough to simply claim best-in-class materials anymore. For the first four years of the business, Mothay's brother Mathieu inspected each and every piece of leather, one by one, before it was moved into production. As it turns out, Mothay and his siblings are equally as obsessive about metal hardware. Polène's come gilded with a vacuum coating called Physical Vapor Deposition plating, a technique used in the watchmaking industry for its long-lasting quality. It's also more sustainable than the traditional galvanization process, in that it uses no water and no chemicals — just electricity — to bond gold with metal.
"The strategy is always to go step by step," he says. "The company is growing really fast, and we could grow even faster, but we really want to build up a contemporary house of fashion."
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