The Orsay bag is like a poetry reading: everything resonates and concurs into a final product that’s overflowing with beauty. The history of the bag begins in 1905, when Jean-Baptiste Morabito opened a metalworking boutique in Nice. 10 years of apprenticeship in the jeweler trade in Rome led him to work with tortoiseshell, coral, and nacre like none other. Soon his headquarters would become the talk of the town with its pure and sleek elegance. No surprise than that all of his bags are created with a metalworker’s sensibilities, the spirit of a jeweler being omnipresent within his workshops. These bags, crafted in the most luxurious of hides, are enchanted by Morabito’s touch. Gracious and refined clasps, encrusted noble materials like gold, silver, or even more delicate, coral… These hand-sewn bags where an unparalleled savoir-faire is brought together with a spirit of invention brings originality to tradition.
The plot of the iconic Orsay thickened in 1958. In that year, Marilyn Monroe voiced her desire to Morabito: a glamorous bag that could be used as a travel beauty case. And so Jean-Baptiste Morabito created the Orsay bag for her, able to be brought anywhere. Today it’s one of the brand’s classics, and the perfect illustration of a hand-sewn piece in the leathergoods sphere. The bag’s interior is entirely composed of lambskin, presenting several compartments that are readily available to serve all the needs of the modern woman. Even better, the Orsay bag is exceptional in that it is released, in addition to its emblematic crocodile skin version, in noble hides such as veal, lizard, or ostrich… Like working an exceptional jewel, pockets, fasteners, and clasps are brought together with extreme care to obtain a result that is irreproachable as much so from an aesthetic point of view as for its long lifespan, since an icon is immortal. Morabito is thus able to adapt to the spirit of the times: the range of colors available is vast and audacious, and the Orsay Mini made of iridescent lizard skin is the perfect example. A true gem!
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