Our history
In September 2018, Nathalie Colas and Hélène Carrouée founded the new Parisian luxury leather goods house Le Luco Paris, inspired by the nickname that the inhabitants of the Left Bank give to the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. Both share the same taste for beauty, the demand for the best know-how and a great complicity based on their complementarity. Hélène Carrouée, artistic director, creates models with an essential and sophisticated design. The house develops a minimalist aesthetic and is distinguished by the lightness of its models. Le Luco Paris seeks the quality of exceptional leathers, the accuracy of details and colors, a commitment to Italian know-how. So many unique features that express luxury and typically Left Bank Parisian chic.
a creative vision oriented towards an invitation to sublimated simplicity
In my capacity as artistic director, trained in product and graphic design at the higher school of industrial design in Paris, I create models with an essential and sophisticated design. My values are based on a minimalist aesthetic, my models are distinguished by their lightness, the sensuality of the materials and the accuracy of proportions and details. The purity of the lines meets the sophistication of the colors for a Parisian look and sublimated simplicity. My identity is that of an artisan designer responding to the challenges of our time where modernity and tradition combine perfectly. My creative thinking is based on a concept of simplicity which appeals to instinct and intuition and results in objects that are essential in terms of their structure, atmosphere and functionality. With fantasy, the accessories are staged in a body-to-body relationship with the material. Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci who considered that “simplicity is the supreme sophistication”. My credo is that of sophisticated simplicity where curved lines respond to straight lines, without frills or superfluities in order to create a style shaped by the mind and the hand. The result is collections presenting a diversity of shapes, colors and materials whose common thread lies in being worn without weighing it down.
A partnership between craftsman and creator, a guarantee of quality and durability
With subtle and minimalist cuts, Le Luco Paris is in line with a Parisian, sophisticated and cosmopolitan style which brings together a team united around a project of quality and sustainability. In the creative process, manufacturing is an integral part of the design and creates the unity and singularity of the product. The selection of exceptional leathers and Italian know-how are part of our identity and our commitment to traditional know-how. Manufacturing results from a partnership, or even companionship, between the craftsman and the creator, allowing the development of a collective intelligence around the manufacturing of the product. Designed in Paris, the collections are made in Italy by talented artisans in quality work
Le Luco Paris was created with the desire to think about objects differently.
A search for truth, the desire to hide nothing, an ethical approach underlies our practice. The ideal of material in accordance with a simple and harmonious form.
Hélène and Nathalie chose the bag because it is the companion of our lives and conceals within it an invisible and powerful power. They chose to return to the essence of things, sensory objects that have a soul. The bag, companion of our lives, conceals within itself an invisible and powerful power.
The philosopher Ludwig Fueurbach said: “The deepest mysteries lie in the simplest natural objects. »
They have outlined what the ideal bag should be.
How many bags hug the body, carry without weighing, give pride of place to the softest materials, keep deep within the hand that made them, masterfully combine simplicity and refinement?
This is why Nathalie and Hélène decided to create Le Luco Paris to sign their line of bags, thinking and designing according to their relationship with the body.
Inspired by the Luxembourg Gardens: the Luco, as Parisians who have fallen in love with it affectionately call it.
At Luco, Nathalie and Hélène come to recharge their batteries, find inspiration and nourish the energy that drives them to create.
The models are designed in Paris in our design workshop, very close to the Luxembourg Gardens. They are thought out and designed in volume before being made in our Italian workshop.
We pay as much attention to the inside as to the outside of our bags; the lambskin or calfskin linings are designed to suit each bag and match the exterior color. The hand can feel the sensuality, the softness of the materials.
Le Luco Paris bags are handmade with care and passion by artisans recognized as being the best. Our models are made in Italy with exceptional leathers.
The bags are available in subtle shades, evocative of the nuances that nature reveals throughout the seasons, at Luco.
The quality of the materials, the sobriety of the volumes, the timelessness of the style in a range of sought-after colors including clay green and ice blue… these are the words that define us
Le Luco Paris offers objects designed to become companions in our lives
Our collection consists of models that respond to different moments in a woman's life.
The leather shoulder bag, Equilibre, a revisited bag, an expression of Parisian chic par excellence, can be worn day or night.
The Court Carré leather clutch bag, emblem of “Less is more”, allows you to keep the essentials close at hand.
The Epure and Grand large leather tote bags, playful with their ties to tie or untie freely, accompany you on life's small and big journeys
Totem, leather tote bag, lightness it-bag, ultra flat for a perfect body fit, hugs your body.
Morning run, origami bag, all-terrain, all-climate companion, ready for the unexpected, is ideal when the pace picks up.