Savette

Savette was founded in 2021 in New York by Amy Zurek as a contemporary luxury handbag-and-accessories brand specifically focused on what Zurek described as 'a deliberately-architectural and deliberately-sculptural contemporary-luxury handbag vocabulary anchored to Italian-craft construction and minimalist proportional play.' The brand has been one of the defining post-2021 NYC-anchored contemporary-luxury-handbag brands. The Savette vocabulary settled around several specific products: the iconic Savette Tondo handbag (the brand's defining product since 2021 — a deliberately-sculptural round-shaped leather handbag with the brand's signature curved-strap construction that became one of the most-collected post-2022 contemporary-luxury handbag-conversation products), the Savette Slim Symmetry handbag (a structured architectural-leather variant), the Savette Hooked handbag, various deliberately-architectural leather mini-bag and pouch programs, and a colour palette anchored to washed-cream, oxblood, washed-charcoal, ecru, soft-pink, natural-tan, plus the brand's recurring use of saturated red, washed-grey, and the iconic contemporary-architectural-aesthetic accent combinations. Production is entirely Italian at small leather workshops in the Florence and Vicenza regions. The brand is independent and held by Zurek plus institutional luxury-investors. Savette operates with no permanent retail of its own, distributing through SSENSE, MATCHES, Net-a-Porter, Mytheresa, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, the Webster, Lane Crawford, Boontheshop, and a curated set of contemporary-luxury-handbag specialty retailers globally. The brand has been one of the most quietly successful post-2021 NYC-anchored 'sculptural-architectural-luxury-handbag' brands.