old skirt new bag

my new laptop bag - collaboration with vas krojac

two winters ago

i bought a vintage wool plaid skirt

loved the shape of it, loved the colors

was pretty sure i'll wear the hell out of it

but from some reason poor thing just hung in my closet 

..

so i was thinking to myself

'that skirt needs to find a new owner

or to become something other than a skirt'

..

 first instinct was to turn it into shorts

because i turn everything into shorts nowadays

..

but then i bought a piece of leather

and seeing it together with the plaid wool skirt

all of a sudden i realized i need a new laptop bag

well.. not new, cause i never really had an old laptop bag

but wore my laptop around

in a silly beach bag, tucked into various scarfs and crap
so, yes i really really needed a proper laptop bag
(and why is it so damn hard to find a good looking laptop bag?
and even if you do find one
it's either too expensive
or too small for a 17 inch laptop)

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new plan had only one problem

my sewing machine is not strong enough

to sew trough the wool, leather and really thick double denim quilted lining

so that's where my friend boris

(who just opened a brand new tailoring shop called 'vas krojac'

meaning 'your tailor' in serbian)

came into story

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idea was to sew the bag in his studio

using his industrial sewing machines

but somehow i ended up doing nothing 

but jabbering and taking photos

while boris did all the work himself 

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and boris did pretty damn good job, i think
so good, in fact
that we're thinking we should team up
and make a collection of laptop bags
(we actually received our very first order!)
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mokosha