10.03.53

My name is Luca, I am 30 years old, I am a leather goods designer and model maker.

In 2010 I started studying fashion design and prêt-à-porter at Instituto Secoli in Milan, while working as an accessories seller at Céline to finance my studies. Passionate about these products, in my free time I trained with a leather craftsman who taught me the manual skills of working with leather.

After my studies, I bought a used sewing machine and installed a workshop in a small garage, where I created bags with the materials that I gave a second life to. This was the time of experimentation.

I went on to win a scholarship funded by Gucci to specialize in leather goods prototyping, which led me to be hired by the brand in its development department in Florence, followed by its style office in Rome.

A year and a half later, in search of international experience, I moved to Paris where I become a junior accessories stylist at Paco Rabanne as well as for other independent designers.

At the end of 2016, I went on an adventure to Mexico. For 8 months I made customised tote bags in a pop-up workshop on the beach of Tulum in front of the eyes of their future owners.

Back in France, I joined Isabel Marant’s studio leather goods designer. Here, I drew the collections and made the initial models, thus combining my two passions: artistic creation and manual work. I also participated in the launch of I-Cicle in Paris by imagining their first catwalk collection of bags. At the same time, I was a leather goods style consultant for several French brands.

With these experiences, summer 2020 marked a turning point. A need for an artistic expression and independence pushed me to start this project and give life to 10.03.53.

The name is a tribute to my father, born on March 3, 1953 and died in 2016.

What I bring in my project is the idea of the bag as an independent object and not just an extension of our clothing styles or a phenomenon of fashion. The latter is too often reduced to a status symbol, directly linked to the image of a brand or a personality. Thus, the accessory obtains a desirable character in the eyes of its consumers by the links of dependence that it maintains with these images.

This shift inspires my approach today. My ambition is to create bags that become appealing for their technical and functional characteristics while striving for innovation and aesthetic harmony.

For these reasons, I like to design my bags as one would create a building or design object.