BAGS OF LOVE

  It's with barely contained emotion that I'm going to tell you about a project that I loved making with my friend MaiYou're getting to know us now, and we're both a pair of little Care Bears... A few months ago, in July to be exact, Mai came to our house and told me the story of an NGO in Viet Nam that takes women out of forced prostitution and teaches them the trade of dressmaking. "FAIR FASHIONwhich she had already met the year before, and which she would love to put to work... Two minutes of ping pong of ideas later, we decide we've got to make something. It's going to be a bag, a sort of diamond-shaped tote bag, a bit of a concept, all that... The deal is that we'll have the bags made by this NGO, customize them with our own little hands and sell them, giving the proceeds to another association, a sort of infernal loop of love... And the association that will receive these donations, your donations indirectly, has been chosen in a not at all arbitrary way, because it's my dad's association. "BASB which builds and renovates schools and orphanages in Africa, and more specifically in Benin. I'll let you discover these actions on his website website. It's a bag to please, to please yourself and to do a good deed... If you've run out of ideas for a Christmas gift, visit the boutique ETSY shop of makemylemonade  where you can buy 13 bags, all different, or for Parisians, there will be 13 more on sale this weekend at Galerie Simone, all "blank", which you can customize with us in a small DIY workshop. More info here for the Simone gallery.

I'll let you discover MAi's wonderful video... ( she's too good, isn't she? ) 

Bags Of Love, by Lisa and Timai from Supertimai on Vimeo. 

Bonus gif of all the bags for sale on Etsy...