::.. BARDO ..::

Vesna Trisovic-a Belgrade born designer launched the Bardo label in 2000, to create hand-crafted, leather handbags with character. Bardo started producing one-off pieces for her clients, and has now moved on to selling and exhibiting at the most prestigious venues for an international market.

At the age of eight, Vesna taught herself to sew on her grandmother's treadle sewing machine. Frustrated by a lack of materials she stole her father's jacket to make her very first handbag. Following the jacket-bag success, she has further developed her philosophy, to create handbags that defy convention in their multi purpose shapes and forms. Turning traditional processes on their heads she 'forms' bags in a fluid, tactile process. She 'experiences' the material, playing with form and functionality-at the hands-on stage, rather than on drawing board. For Bardo the pattern comes last.

Bardo is a core member of the fast growing, cutting edge fashion industry based in the East End of London. The signature technique that Bardo employs, is a textural pattern that is defined by the shape of the piece.

Vesna studied Fashion Design at London College of Fashion and Middlesex Uni. She then worked for a variety of avant-garde companies in London such as Preen and Fake, and freelanced as a designer for London businesses that specialise in leather.