Loewe was founded some 179 years ago by a collective of Spanish artisans pooling their leather work expertise. Their excellence snagged them real and Hollywood royalty as clients – Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Marlene Dietrich and King Alfonso XIII, who awarded them the warrant. The name Loewe, translating as lion, comes from a German craftsman, however, Enrique Loewe Roessberg, who wound up leading this pride of craftspeople some 30 years later, hence the strange Teutonic pronunciation of the name of a quintessentially Spanish brand. You’d be hard-pushed to think of many others – Spain is more known for paella and the Prado, less so fashion, bar the big black shadow of the Basque-born Cristòbal Balenciaga. With a hyper-classic trapezoid shape, albeit one slouched and lightly relaxed, the Loewe Madrid bag looks like something a woman may have clutched in those hallowed salons in the 1950s or 60s.
The Loewe Madrid bag is available in medium and small now.
