KREJCI BAGS: REDESIGNED FROM BIKE INNER TUBES!

Here's the first post in our series about the designers behind the products you can find in PUG's web shop. We're starting with Doreen Westphal of Dutch design company Krejci. Click photos for larger versions!


Ukol

These fabulous bags are made from bike inner tubes that have lived their lives in Amsterdam’s busy city. The bags are produced in Poland by disabled workers.

The interior of the bags is lined with coloured felt - you can see hints of the colours in all the photos:


Mifa


Mifa


This is how Krejci describes their designs:

"The young label from Amsterdam started off three years ago with a series of bags made out of gray industrial felt. When designer Doreen Westphal received a bag full of inner tubes as a joke Christmas present she started to play around with the material, which resulted in her first inner tube bag, the MIFA. After much experimentation and study KREJCI succeeded in creating TUBUS, a line of strong, unique looking bags based on unusual materials: original Amsterdam bicycle inner tubes and felt."



Gava


Gava


Krejci's achievements:

"In February 2003 KREJCI was one of the first labels beeing presented in Young Designers United (a platform for new Dutch fashion in the heart of Amsterdam). From there the bags, often being sold to foreign Amsterdam visitors started spreading beyond the borders of the Netherlands. Soon KREJCI started selling in the Guggenheim Museum shop Berlin.
In august 2005 the label was selected to present itself in the High Promises section at the Modefabriek Amsterdam."

You can read more at Krejci's blog - they just wrote a blog post about how they obtain the inner tubes! If you want even more information, you can visit Krejci's website.

Here are the links if you'd like to buy these bags from our web shop:

Ukol
Mifa
Gava

We'd say that these are great for cool girls of all ages!