Our Meredith handbag is our most celebrated bag and we wrote about her *here* and why she is our most sold product. However, whilst Meredith is perfect for date night, and whilst she is beautiful and compact, we wanted to create a more heavy duty bag.
Her name is Daphne. She was created at the type wherein we lost founder, Moray Luke’s grandma and named this bag after her.Joy Daphne. Joy Daphne was a formidable woman and due to lockdown restrictions we couldn’t properly mourn her; so we made a bag in her honour. She was not only a phenomenal grandmother but also an archeologist, a dutiful mother and grandmother and a wife to a cricket star. This lady needed *a lot* of tools to go about her day to day to day life. We wanted to make a bag that was bountiful in how much it held.
However we needed to make a prototype first.
The Daphne Prototype
When the pandemic was raging in the beginning of 2021, we had no idea fish leather would have the reception that it did. Fish leather is a controversial material. Moray Luke herself was very scared to debut her fish skin handbags at Paris Fashion Week. So we made a prototype in traditional Scottish bovine.
However, fish skin got a worthy reception and on our first day of Paris Fashion Week, the BBC contacted us about how we used our salmon leather.
Daphne stayed as a bovine prototype carted around by Moray herself holding fashion week and photoshoot essentials. Its fish leather counterpart never saw the light of day.
Until now.
In this version of Daphne we use fish skin from Slovenia saved from a bin; turning it into an heirloom. Matched with a buttery Italian leather, and inside a red Italian suede, for the glamorous old Hollywood aesthetic, she is complete.
Now after a whirlwind couple of years of the brand, 2024 was a year we wanted to take a breather. Think of our next steps and what we want the brand to be. Not only is Daphne an emblem of this, we finally got round to transforming her from prototype to product, but also we hope she is going to be the bag that we sell out rather than the Meredith.
For 2025 we are working on a Moray Luke print range, a Meredith bag in a couple more shades but will be bringing you the Daphne for sale in this beautiful bottle green. Whilst we make a couple more adjustments before her arrival, we implore you to sign up to our waiting list and enquire about her. As we go off to see the Spring/Summer 2025 collections at London Fashion Week and what our fellow designers have been planning, we will take Daphne and hope that our 2025 will be as bountiful as the amount of items she can hold.
Sign up to our waiting list or email hello@morayluke.com for information about the Daphne bag.
