Executive Leather Backpack

Most vintage leather backpacks are covered in buckles. This one is not, and that is the entire point.

A flat back, a plain front and a single clean zip line: the leather commuter backpack that works worn over a suit jacket rather than against it. It holds a 16-inch laptop flat against your spine, opens without a performance, and reads in a meeting room as considered rather than costumed.

Quiet luxury is mostly a matter of what has been left off.

Features

• Padded compartment sized for a 16-inch machine
• Flat back panel and plain front — no external buckles or webbing
• Front zip organiser and an exterior rear slip pocket
• Deliberately understated dark metal hardware
• Padded, fully adjustable shoulder straps
• Available in crazy horse and smooth black finishes

Specifications

• Material — cowhide, crazy horse and smooth black finishes
• Laptop Size — up to 16 inches, padded compartment
• Dimensions — approximately 41 × 29 × 12 cm
• Weight — approximately 1.2 kg
• Compartments — main compartment, padded laptop section, front zip organiser, rear slip pocket
• Closure — zip closure
• Hardware Finish — dark metal
• Colours — Black, Brown, Dark Brown

Perfect For

• Office and business days that end in a meeting
• Daily commuting with a 16-inch laptop
• Business travel
• Anywhere a buckled rucksack would read as too casual

Why You'll Love It

The restraint is what makes it expensive-looking, not the hardware. A plain leather panel has nowhere to hide, so the hide has to be good — and cowhide is the only thing that improves under that scrutiny. It will darken where your hand takes the grab handle and where the straps meet the shoulders, and after a year it will look like a bag you have owned for five.