Within the most recognizable prints one can find on bags and accessories, definitely stands out the iconic map with antique effect from Alviero Martini 1ª Classe , a brand created in the 90s which conquered men and women with their offered accessories and clothes, characterized by what is called “Geo Print”.

The production’s based concept from Alviero Martini 1ª Classe consists in the perfect combination of progress and artisan traditions, while offering an assortment dedicated to contemporary men and women who love to wear functional and aesthetically convincing clothes and accessories, with a continuous liaison of antiquity and modernity. In this spirit the Geo print represents the absolute protagonist of this trend, with its particular manufacture.

Behind the production of accessories and bags from Alviero Martini 1ª Classe there is indeed a complicated process, realized by specialized artisans after the tradition of Italian leather goods: the map is painted with nine shades of watercolors to lend a particular antique effect thanks to warm and convincing shades. The artisans start to draw the outlines of the continents with the darkest color, a dark brown, for then going on with always lighter pigments to fill up the whole map.

The drawing and coloring procedure is operated on a cotton canvas, which when the drawing is completed, is covered with a particular transparent sheet to lend it waterproof and enduring over time. At the end of this procedure, the cylinders flatten the canvas after the artisan gaufrage tradition to realize a lightly hammered texture which is particularly nice to touch.

Completed the iconic Geo fabric, it is formed after the drawings of bags and accessories, realized by Italian designers: every item is rich of refinements made of leather and gold-colored metal details, ideal to loosen up and emphasize the offered pattern.

After we have seen every detail of the product’s manufacture, we want to have a look at the collections of women’s bags from Alviero Martini 1ª Classe: the brand’s assortment reaches from products of reduced dimensions to shopping bags and items of extra large dimensions, ideal for every type of use. The fabric which the bags are made contributes to make the products enduring and versatile to use.

The shopping bags from Alviero Martini 1ª Classe are available in different dimensions, but also in different typologies, reaching from deep variations to thinner ones, from horizontal to vertical forms. The brand offers also items of more elaborate design which remembers a hobo bag, adding to the high capacity and the typical usefulness of this bags also a nice look, with particular thin handles and a reducing form on the top. The shopping bags are available in a variations with zip closure or magnetic clip, in some items can be found also a comfortable extricable clutch on the inside, in which one can store smaller objects.

Of a similar usefulness but completely different style are the backpacks from Alviero Martini 1ª Classe which incarnate the top of the brand’s urban and contemporary style, for women who love to carry around the accessories for every day on the shoulders with an accessory of sophisticated and particular shapes: the brand’s backpacks experiment with rounded forms and leather details, to make every object not only comfortable to use, but also feminine and ideal for every look and every occasion.

Of medium dimensions instead are the hobo bags and straps, ideal for free time and versatile in their style: the shapes, also in this case rounded, perfectly fit to the geo print, to create with a small accessory an adventurous and sophisticated look, perfect to stand out also in combination with casual or sober clothes.

The shoulder bags instead are one of the brand’s strength and offer a numerous quantity of variations. The most romantic products are those enriched by straps with gold-colored chain elements and leather inserts, but also those in the shape of a half-moon, which results particularly beautiful thanks to the small dimensions. Perfect for elegant occasions are the rectangular items of firm forms, ideal to be worn both as a shoulder bag or with the wrist belt as a clutch: the minimal dimensions include in the inside pockets and compartments to contain money, a lipstick and the smartphone!

The small leather goods from Alivero Martini 1ª Classe offer the same design as the women’s bags, but in smaller dimensions and equipped with all necessary pockets and compartments to contain banknotes, credit cards and documents: from the classy item with front flap to those with zip closure and gusset opening, the brand offers clutch, small purses and flat card holders of minimal dimensions, to satisfy every women’s taste. But Alviero Martini also does not forget about the newest technologies and thus offers a wallet-clutch, ideal to contain a smartphone and protect it from scratches. To complete the collection with small leather goods there are the key chains, in the variation of a clinger or as a case to store the keys of house and car.

With its recognizable style, made of attention to the artisan tradition with an eye always to the present and the future, Alviero Martini 1ª Classe represents a reference point for all female lovers of a functional style, ideal for every moment of the day.