Krukrustudio creators are Max and Lyuba. We were both born in the North – in Karelia Republic, close to Finland. And both received a typical Russian education, Lyuba as a philologist and myself as a physicist. But both had quite a different interests: Lyuba was good in drawing and I played guitar and attended courses in tailoring. We got together in Moscow back in 2008 and three years after came to the conclusion that we need to develop our talents rather than only work.
In January 2011 we finally got down to business. Why pouches? Because everyone needs a pouch! Wool felt that Lyuba found was perfect for experimenting and we spent about two months making quite classical style bags for our friends and for local shops. Until we realized that the felt offer great opportunities for modeling all kinds of shapes and unleashed our creativity.
The first “bag-object” we ever generated was the Dirigible. It came out very big and that made it even more stunning. The second one was the Milk can pouch. We were really impressed ourselves because we haven't ensure anything like that before( and we still are !). We set it up on Russian social network and received so many orders, that we did only these two models for two months.
These suitcases made a certain breakthrough in consciousness. People realized that now any object could become a pouch! We received a lot of petitions from people for purses shaped like their favorite objects. We had a notebook full of ideas for a future container but didn't know what to start from – then people's requests made a choice for us! That's how our collection grew over the years.
Later, as we learned, we started working with leather and recently with faux leather( for our vegan friends ), discovered printing technologies and trained several seamstress to help us with production.
