Leather used by the big luxury brands are NOT necessarily the best ones. They are the commercial ones. Those with a uniform and resistant finish easily replicatable. Those finishes are a coat of plastic keeping your hands away from the real leather.
Keep this in mind.
How does this work with „a coat of plastic“? Is it applied like a upper color layer, or … ?
In this clip the great leatherstein explains how it's a plastic film that has been hot stamped on the leather. You can see it when he removes it with acetone.
https://video.nostr.build/b574cb0c7141d693f75ef93e0844ac4188169789633b35c538f0b5b3c79ae2dd.mp4
It's not necessarily bad. I like saffiano. The texture pattern is very cool. But it's commercial grade.
I wouldn’t pay 2200 for a bag even if it was from scrotum leather.
I bought leather bags from a guy in Jerusalem. $300 for a huge travel bag, 250$ for a messenger.
Only issue is it’s from the ritually killed animals, but I guess I don’t care because it’s such a great quality.
Why did he cut open the bag ?? He could do whatever he did without destroying a 2200 dollar bag :-)
