Paul Smith’s runway presentation at Paris Fashion Week, two of the most well-known fashion brands in Britain, Mulberry and Paul Smith, present their future partnership of neutral collections of bags for the approaching fall/winter season of 2023.
The Paul Smith and Mulberry collaboration will debut in the fall with a 10-piece capsule collection that updates Mulberry’s classic messenger bag, the “Antony,” with Smith’s vibrant characteristic stripe webbing straps, striking colour-blocking, and shadow stripe embossing.
According to a press release, the collaboration was born out of a “shared approach to heritage style and sustainable innovation.”
Sir Paul Smith said, “Paul Smith and Mulberry were founded within a year of each other in the 1970s, so you could say our brands grew up and came of age together. I think that’s at least partly why we share such a similar approach to creativity and craft – that and our Britishness.”
The “Antony Clip” and the “Antony Tote,” two completely new shapes, will be part of the full capsule, which will be available later this year. With leather supplied from gold standard tanneries recognized by the Leather Working Group, each model will be made in the UK at Mulberry’s carbon-neutral Somerset factory.
Regarding this, Thierry Andretta, chief executive at Mulberry said, “British creativity and craft are central to the Mulberry x Paul Smith collaboration, and we are proud that the full collection will be made in the UK at our two carbon-neutral Somerset factories.”
