The black suede bag my mother used to use when I was a child.

It's like a thin, long handle with no gussets or pocketsIt was a very simple bag.

Although there is no particular design like this

For some reason it's always been in my memory

As if I want a bag like that someday


One day, I met ANDADURA's Yamamoto-san through a mutual friend.

Mr. Yamamoto cut out from my memory and completed

It is a very simple bag named "FLAT".


[ FLAT]

This year too, I made a bag together with jiji, a clothing maker in Wakayama. When I met Hikiami from jiji for the first time, we talked about making a bag together, and this is the bag I came up with in my car on the way home.

I felt a kind of admiration in the scene where she described  me about the image of the bag that her mother was using.

In a book I was reading a while ago, I saw the hiragana ruby ​​word "simple" used for the kanji word "simple,"  and I was quietly shocked to myself. As I stood still for about 15 minutes and watched the words enter my body, I felt the strain around the word "simple" begin to peel away. A little later, I came across the word "artlessness" in a book I read, and realized that the word "simplicity," which I had admired since I was a student, was expressed in a soft way that did not contradict complexity. I just realized this.

When I read what jiji-san wrote for FLAT last year, there was a line that said, "Mr. Yamamoto carved out something from my memory," but when I was making FLAT, what I was cutting out was probably something she longed for. And that was my longing too. When I read jiji-san's words, I get the feeling that she knew this from the beginning.

ANDADURA / Yusuke Yamamoto