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STARTED FROM MINUS ONE

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I didn’t start veni morgan because I had experience in fashion. I had none. No connections, no training, no clue how to make a bag. I didn’t even know how to put in a zipper. But I had an idea. And once I had it, I couldn’t ignore it.

It started in a small village in Laconia, at my dining table. No fancy studio, no master artisans—just me, a pile of wasted leather, and my grandmother’s old Singer sewing machine. I had always liked fashion, but bags made sense to me in a way clothes never did. I understood their structure, how they held their shape.

I started folding paper into different forms, cutting, taping edges together—without realizing it, I was doing origami. That’s when it clicked: I wanted ....