Sometimes all you need is a moment in which you carry nothing heavy. I made it for that moment.
Small and round, it has the shape of something you can hold in one hand, like a thought you finally have time for. The white leather carries a crocodile pattern, quiet and pale, and across it runs a wave of gold, scale after scale, as if the sun had touched it only in passing. At both ends, metallic gold leather closes the shape like two small coins, their edges finished by hand.
It hangs from a fixed gold-tone chain, and a long golden tassel follows every step, so even standing still it seems to move. A zip closes it. Inside, lambskin, soft as a held breath, and a zipped pocket in the same white and gold leather, where a tiny ship's wheel on the pull waits for whoever needs a direction.
It holds far more than it seems: the phone, the keys, a wallet and all the small things of a whole day. Carry it to a dinner, to a gallery, to an afternoon that belongs only to you. Close it, and breathe.
Leather: white, crocodile-embossed, with a wave of gold scales
Ends: metallic gold leather, edges finished by hand
Lining: lambskin
Inside: one zipped pocket, with a small ship's wheel on the pull
Closure: zip
Handle: fixed gold-tone chain with a long gold-tone tassel
