An exclusive collaboration with Paola Milani, Brisbane based artist.
Native botanicals, folded like origami. Cut from 100% linen, the Waratah Bag takes its shape the moment you pick it up. Triangles of fabric meet in a soft V at the centre, collapsing into a slouchy, sculptural form that drapes against the body and folds flat when you’re done. Paola Milani’s waratahs and wildflowers wrap around every side, so the print turns and changes as the bag moves with you. Inside, a cotton voile lining keeps it light, and a wide strap sits comfortably over the shoulder or hangs easily from the hand.
Roomy enough for the day’s essentials and light enough to carry everywhere, it’s wearable art for the everyday.
Features
- 100% Linen
- Cotton Voile Lining
- Exclusive Artist Print
- Folded Geometric Shape
- Wide Comfortable Strap
- Wear on the Shoulder or Carry by Hand
- Folds Flat for Travel
Dimensions
- Full Width: 44cm
- Full Length: 71cm
- Strap Drop: 26cm
- Strap Width: 6cm
About the Artist
Paola’s work draws on the natural world. For this print she turned to the Australian bush, where waratah, bottlebrush, banksia and hakea have grown extraordinary forms through heat, drought and fire. Old seed pods stand beside new flowers, and the waratah sits at the centre, vivid and unapologetically present. For Paola it’s a way of thinking about the ageing female body and self, not as an autumn leaf whose season has passed but as a whole landscape, weathered and flowering at once. Worn on the body, it carries a small reminder: ageing is not disappearance.
“Perhaps we are the whole landscape, weathered and flowering, protective and generous, carrying our histories while continuing to become.” Paola Milani
