Ransack Leather
She may ransack, pillage and plunder for materials, but she pulls it off with an edgy élan.
For Lisa Nihiser of Chicago’s Ransack Leather, it’s all about creativity. The one-woman, bag and clutch company lives up to its pirate-punk moniker – with one-of-a-kind designs that pack a wallop of swagger and style. Most of her creations are made with a combination of newly purchased and recycled leather. She may ransack, pillage and plunder for materials, but she pulls it off with an edgy élan.
Nihiser has been “reinventing leftovers since 2004.” Ransack, she says, is a place “where fresh ideas bloom from vintage inspiration.” Her bags provocatively mix and match leopard and zebra prints, snake skin, metallic fabrics and cowhide with studs, recycled vintage ornaments and appliques of patterns, hearts, critters, flowers, and flames…and so much more.
Like many leather artists I’ve interviewed, Lisa has always been creative. “As a child,” she
