Ah okay. But he came to Spain quite young and was trained as a leather artisan in Madrid. He then bought an existing traditional leather atelier and started procuring leather goods in the Spanish maroquinerie tradition. Once they got into fashion in the 70s (and Enrique
Loewe, as he liked to be called, was dead) they had creative directors from many places but I would say Loewe is as Spanish as it comes! Not much German fashion influence there and it was never particularly known in Germany either.