Garbanota

Bags With Somebody's Face On Them.

Garbanota is the work of one Lithuanian artist who paints graphic portraits and then puts them on bags, which is a considerably better use of a painting than leaving it in a folder. The portraits have names rather than numbers, and the whole catalogue carries the same hand, so a Garbanota bag is recognisable at fifty paces without a logo being involved at any point.

Totes, hobos, crossbodies and phone bags.

The range runs from zipped shopping totes through velour hobo bags to small phone bags and cosmetic cases, in polyester and velour rather than leather. Most of it is machine washable at 30 degrees, which is a sentence rarely written about an art object.

Also aprons, tea towels and placemats.

The same paintings turn up across the house, for anyone who takes to the work and finds one bag insufficient. It is a fairly easy habit to acquire and no harder to explain than most.

For more to carry, have a browse of our bags, tote bags and crossbody + clutch bags collections. There are more businesses like this one in women-led brands, and more from that part of the world in our Baltic brands.