When I think about Tano Handbags the first two words that leap to mind are "leathers" and "colors". While Tano's color palette improves season after season, the same is true of their leathers.
But for Fall 2009 Tano seems to have really set a new standard.
Tano's primary leather for the last several seasons is Crunch leather. Hand stained and lovely, Crunch leather is durable, wears beautifully, and has a glow to it. A glow, you ask? To say the leather is shiny is not really the proper way to describe it. The leather is certainly not a matte leather but it's not a flashlight either. Tano Crunch leather seems to just glow.
Last fall Tano produced velvet leather. Velvet leather was a very lighly pebbled, shiny, lovely leather. Not anything at all like Crunch, it gave your Tano closet a swift kick to step it up a notch. Velvet bags wanted you to walk with your nose tilted maybe a tiny bit in the air.
When news started to leak about the Fall 2009 collection I instantly started to try and dig up information on the leathers.
Bella leather was described as "drum dyed, matte, smooth grain leather". Not enough to make me want to light a bonfire but, hey, info is info, right?
Then first few pics of bags made from Bella leather started to leak out. My ears perked up. A few more pics leaked. I got a hot flash. The moment I was able to pre-order Edgy Out There from Must Have Bag, I was on the phone.
And today my Tano Edgy Out There in Bella leather arrived. When I opened the box the first thought I had was "Stubben jumping saddle" ...because the beautiful smell that enveloped me was that of a tack store full of brand new saddles.
When I pulled the handbag out of its wrapping I was stunned. The matte leather is elegant. It is thick and smooshy to the touch. It's far and away the best leather I've seen on any bag (Tano or otherwise) in a long time.
Tano Bella leather is exquisite, soft, delicious, and impossible to stop touching. The Edgy Out There won't be my only Bella leather Tano bag...one is not enough.
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