Balkan Tango Interview

I just stumbled upon a fun interview with Ipek Türkoglu, the Turkish designer behind the Hungarian label Balkan Tango.

(The interviewer, David Sasaki, is the director of an awesome international blogging project and seems like a really interesting guy.)

DS: How did you come up with the idea to create messenger bags out of bicycle tubes?

IT: It was something like love at first sight! What particularly appealed to me was the silky way the tubes felt to the touch (after being polished ;). Along with this came the thought of making something that at the same time is environmentally-friendly. These two aspects rolled into one made me come up with the idea of creating bags from punctured bicycle tubes. As I have always been designing and making bags for practical use, this was only too self-evident for me. (read more…)