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BiArtis is the first brand in the world that made unique luxury handbags made in leather with originally sewn oil on canvas. The name BiArtis comes from a Greek-Latin word that means "double art".
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This bags are designed to be inherited as a permanent value, as it is not just a utilitarian object and attractive fashion accessories but also a work of art.
All artists working for BiArtis are acknowledged academic painters. Each bag is followed by a handmade painted silk scarf by the same author with fragments of painting which are sewn in to the purse.
Prices for these bags range from 1000 to 2500 € . Costs escalate according to the motifs on a painting sewn onto it. Discounts are not given for as the painting gets older the bag gains more value as a peace of art.
History
The creator and inventor of BiArtis bags, Elizabeth Suzana Kozina, as every woman is crazy for shoes and bags. In the end of 2012. she wanted to put art work on something else than walls, so she thought: I can put painting on a bag.
In the beginning of 2013, she draw her dream on paper and she ordered oil on canvas from an painter and went to a factory for them to saw it into a bag prototype.
But, what they did wasn't good, so she wanted another one but it wasn't good either. So the factory said it could not be done. You can't saw oil on canvas on bag, and she literally was kicked out of factory. In the meantime, she found out about factory, 5 minutes away from last one, she showed ruined bag to an owner and asked: "Can you do better than this?". He replied: "Not only I can but I WILL", and that is how BiArtis bag was made.
First publicly shown BiArtis bag, that satisfied inventors criteria, was introduced in May 2015.
Design
Craftsmanship
The bags are handmade in Croatia. First blueprint is made, then academic painter paints a painting and a scarf .The painting needs 20 days to dry. Next thing is choosing model and color for the bag. Painting then is taken to a factory where sawing painting and bag is handmade at same time and it is done with gloves, because painting is applied in bag, not on it. Then, completed bag is taken to photographer to take photo after which certificate of uniqueness is made.
Bag and certificate is put in exclusive satin bag and than in exclusive white box with declarations.
Time needed for one bag to be done is two months.
Demands
The rarity of these bags are purportedly designed to increase demand by collectors of art for as the painting gets older the bag gains more value.
As the result, BiArtis bag is currently in The Museum of Bags and Purses (Dutch: Tassenmuseum Hendrikje), located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It is a museum devoted to historic handbags, purses and suitcases. The museum's collection includes 4,000 items dating back to the 16th century and BiArtis bag is among them.
BiArtis bag is also presented to buyers on a delivered BiArtis pads and white BiArtis gloves.
With each passing day, BiArtis brand is more and more recognized, both in fashion and business life circles.