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ORBISLEATHER & BAG MAKERS IN LONDON8 stores · curated ORBIS register
London / Online
The modern British leather house — document cases, travel bags, and the accessories brand that has become the leather goods choice of the British establishment.
Best for Document cases, travel bags, and the modern choice of the British establishment.
London / United Kingdom
Carl Friedrik makes structured leather briefcases, travel bags and hard-shell luggage with restrained detailing. The Printemps counter gives shoppers a chance to test handles, wheels, case weight and interior organisation.
Best for Vegetable-tanned briefcases and polycarbonate luggage
London / United Kingdom
DeMellier was founded by Mireia Llusià-Lindh, a Barcelona-born, London-based designer with an MBA from Harvard Business School who previously worked as a strategy advisor to luxury houses including Burberry and LVMH.
Best for The Vancouver and Nano Montreal handbags, with each purchase funding vaccines
DeMellier was founded by Mireia Llusià-Lindh, a Barcelona-born, London-based designer with an MBA from Harvard Business School who previously worked as a strategy advisor to luxury houses including Burberry and LVMH. The brand's name fuses 'De,' drawn from her Spanish family lineage, with 'Mellier,' from a French-descended branch of her family. Its founding premise was a handbag 'with no compromises' — pieces conceived to be modern and rigorously made, ethically and sustainably sourced, yet still attainable, with every model handcrafted in vetted European factories. DeMellier built a direct-giving model into its retail structure from the outset: a portion of every purchase funds vaccines and treatments intended to save the life of a child in need, a mechanism the brand foregrounds rather than treats as incidental philanthropy. Signature styles include the structured Vancouver tote and the compact Nano Montreal, both built around the same ethically-made, no-compromise brief. The company has grown into a recognized name in accessible luxury leather goods built explicitly around social impact, positioning craftsmanship, sustainability, and charitable purpose as inseparable parts of the same design brief rather than a marketing layer added afterward.
London / Online
Royal Warrant leather goods — bridle hide wallets, card cases, and the British leather house that has held a Royal Warrant since 1996.
Best for Bridle hide, Royal Warrant, and the finest British leather accessories.
London / Online
Mulberry was founded in 1971 in Somerset by Roger Saul, who began at his kitchen table with 500 pounds from his mother. His sister drew the tree logo, and the first designs were buckled leather belts, followed by bags and womenswear. The house style, dubbed Le Style Anglais, joins English rural pursuits with London energy. It remains a British leather goods brand with a global reach.
Best for Bayswater bags and British leather heritage
Roger Saul founded Mulberry in 1971 with £500 of his twenty-first-birthday money, a kitchen table in Somerset, and his mother Joan sewing alongside — and built from it the definitive English leather-goods house. The tree logo and the county stayed: The Rookery in Chilcompton and a second Somerset factory still make the classic bags, the largest luxury leather manufacturing in Britain, complete with apprenticeship schools.
The Bayswater, launched 2003, is the house in one object — postman's-lock practicality, heritage leather, the English It-bag that outlived the It-bag era — flanked by the Alexa (named for Alexa Chung, satchel of an entire decade) and the Lily's chain-strap charm. Country codes — saddlery stitching, waxed leathers — anchor even the trend pieces.
Ownership sits with Singapore's Challice, and recent years brought restructuring and a "Back to the Mulberry Spirit" refocus on Britishness, craft and repair — the Lifetime Service Centre restores decades-old bags. Somerset leather, London polish: England's everyday luxury, still made where it started.
London / Online
Rivet & Hide sells Japanese selvedge denim and heritage menswear from 11-12 Old Burlington Street in Mayfair, where it moved in December 2024. A Manchester store trades at 59 Thomas Street. Founded in 2012 as a by-appointment service, it stocks small-batch jeans from makers such as Iron Heart and Pure Blue Japan alongside leather jackets and bench-made boots. Jewellery and a vintage hemming service round out the offer.
Best for Japanese selvedge denim with expert fittings and hemming in Mayfair and Manchester
Rivet & Hide began in 2012 as a by-appointment service built around Japanese selvedge denim. The company behind it was incorporated in London on 15 November 2011. It opened a London shop in 2014 and added a Manchester store at 59 Thomas Street in the Northern Quarter in 2019. In December 2024 it moved its London flagship from Fitzrovia to 11-12 Old Burlington Street in Mayfair, a short walk from Savile Row and three times the size of the old shop. The stock-in-trade is small-batch jeans and jackets from Japanese mills and makers, among them Iron Heart and Pure Blue Japan, Momotaro Jeans and Studio D'Artisan. Around the denim sit made-to-order leather jackets and flannel shirts, together with bench-made boots from Viberg and Tricker's. Knitwear comes from Dehen 1920 and hand-cast jewellery from Good Art Hlywd. Much of what it sells is strictly small run. The shop favours brands that build modern styles with old-school construction. Both stores offer a vintage hemming service. The shop describes its style of service as unhurried and knowledgeable rather than a hard sell.
London / England / Online
London luxury leather goods since 1750 — whips, umbrellas, and bridle leather accessories.
Best for Bridle-leather goods, Brigg umbrellas and travel accessories
London / Online
Swaine's New Bond Street flagship brings leather goods together with Herbert Johnson hats and the house's other collections. Workshops within the London store make bespoke leatherwork and hats at the same address as the shop. The shop also handles aftercare enquiries for older pieces.
Best for Leather goods, hats and bespoke services in London
Swaine's flagship at 127 New Bond Street combines a shop with working spaces for leather artisans and hatters. The collection brings the house's leather goods together with Herbert Johnson hats, and the store presents archive pieces alongside newer designs. For a visitor interested in how an object is made, the workshops give the address a different purpose from a display-only boutique.
The leather and hat workshops undertake bespoke orders. A commission therefore begins with a discussion about the piece and the work involved, rather than an assumption that everything on display can be altered in the same way. The store also accepts older goods for its aftercare service, making it relevant to someone who already owns a Swaine item.
Use the flagship to compare pieces in person or ask about a particular service before commissioning work. Ready-to-buy collections and bespoke production serve different needs, and the presence of a London workshop does not establish where every item in the wider range was made.
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