German Artist Aline Seller
German leather artisan Aline Seiler has always been into bags. “As a teenager,” she says, “I always wanted to know about the latest bag of the season and one of my big, big dreams was to one day own a designer bag. I was obsessed with everything Alexander Wang did back then and I talked all the time about someday purchasing my own Chanel bag.”
She was a dedicated fashionista from an early age. “As a child, I always wanted to dress myself and I even put together a fashion show in school when I was about 12 years old. I initiated a project in which some other students and I made our own clothes and modeled them for our classmates.”
Still, she says, though she did dream about getting into the fashion industry, she never imagined that she would pursue a career in bag making. But, as so often happens to us all, life had other plans for Aline. Her bespoke bag brand, the eponymous Aline Seiler, turns out sleek and unique handcrafted luxury totes, clutches, cross body bags, evening bags and shoulder bags. A one-woman shop, Aline is based today in the city of Leipzig.
Known as a hotbed of protest before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Leipzig
