About Us
Daisy Mulan was founded on a simple belief: that a bag should get better with use. Every silhouette is designed in-house and made from full-grain leather that softens and darkens as you carry it — in six shapes and five sizes, so there is one that fits what you actually carry.
Our Founder
Daisy Mulan began with a single idea at a workbench — that the bag you carry every day should be the one that lasts longest, not the one that wears out first. What started as a small studio of pattern cutters and leatherworkers grew into the workshop it is today.
Every design still starts the same way. It is drawn by hand and made up in calico before a hide is cut, then stitched and finished at the bench rather than pushed through a production line. That is slower, and it means we release far less than we could — but no bag leaves the studio without having been carried by the person who made it.
The same patience decides what we will and will not work with: full-grain hides from tanneries we can name, solid hardware rather than plated pot metal, and linings you can actually see into. We would rather explain why a bag takes longer than quietly compromise on the part of it you cannot see.
It also shapes how we build. Straps, zips and linings are made to be replaced, because a bag that cannot be repaired is not really an investment — it is just an expensive purchase.
“I wanted to make bags that look better in year five than they did in week one. Everything we release is something I would carry every day myself.”
Daisy Mulan
Founder & Creative Director
Our Craft
Every bag is cut, stitched and finished by makers who have spent decades at the bench. Panels are cut by hand so the grain runs the way it should, stress points are double-stitched, and each bag is loaded and carried before it is allowed to leave.
Our Promise
We buy full-grain leather from tanneries that publish where their hides come from, and we use the offcuts for card cases rather than discarding them. Our canvas is undyed organic cotton, and every bag ships in a dust bag it can be stored in for years.
Our Heritage
Straps, zips and linings are replaceable, and we will replace them. A bag that cannot be repaired is a bag with an expiry date, and we would rather make fewer bags that stay in use than more that do not.
