But Spark, maybe you meant that the bag would be designed and custom made from scratch with a leather craftsman with the highest quality methods of construction and materials AND then the bag would be a known 'brand' with marketing machine behind it that will give you cache to be seen carrying it? Then I don't know of any option. But there are people who have a passion for this and have set up a shop on etsy to pursue that passion part time without quitting their day jobs and because they are not a brand, they do not command prices worth the time they spend but they do it because they love the process. Just because they are small time doesn't mean the quality is not up there with the most expensive brands. Cathy from iadoremybag on etsy is really passionate about learning the methods that the most exclusive labels use to make luxury handbags and has spent six years studying how to do so and now has expanded beyond making bags for herself and loved ones since she enjoys the process so much as her passion, she puts up her creations on etsy, but is available for a totally custom bag basically at cost of materials (at their cost in Europe, she lives in an expensive part of the world). She has never been able to quit her day job and may never be able to, because a marketing machine is necessary to command prices that would allow her to do so, and maybe she doesn't want to do it full time. Maybe it is more fun as a hobby. But anyways, it is neat to design a bag and not worry about the production process exploiting anyone because it's just her and everything is happening within the first world.
