"It was a hot day in June 2011, we were on Lake Bilancino to participate in a market of handicrafts, the heat was so much and people found it hard to move from the lake to look at the stalls, we were bored and between a chat and the 'other we have made up our minds to transform old scratched and unlistenable vinyl records, which were in the car to be taken to the landfill, into a very special handbag.
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"It was a hot day in June 2011, we were on Lake Bilancino to participate in a market of handicrafts, the heat was so much and people found it hard to move from the lake to look at the stalls, we were bored and between a chat and the other we got into the head of transform old scratched and unlistenable vinyl records, who were in the car to be taken to rubbish dump, in a very special handbag. Among the tools we had brought with us were a drill, embroidery thread, and some leather. And here in a few hours we have made the first bag YaMa – they tell Yaya and Maura, the creators of this new eco-fashion accessories brand - At that point the records no longer ended up in a landfill but the idea took off: use fabrics, leathers and anything else that lies unused in the house to produce original accessories".
And this is how the original YaMa bags Classic were born, the alternative YaMaSound cd holders, the comfortable YaMaMusic headphone holders, the very useful YaMaLady beauty cases and the refined but also trendy YaMaDandy shoulder bags, all rigorously handmade by inseparable friends, recycling old 33 and 45 rpm and combining them with waste materials from the manufacturing leather and eco-leather.
But not only that, in fact, over time the two girls have refined their collection re-giving life to old clothing from which they recovered the tissues such as the Jeans or velvet, and old bags using accessories such as zips and shoulder straps.
Ideal for the lady of the console, and obviously for their fans, the bags have finally been presented to the public at the Florentine club BeBop, under the patronage of Rotaract Club Firenze Bisenzio, l'Meyer Children's Hospital, and a regional enterprise.
The proceeds from the event were donated to the realization of a project, currently unique in Europe, concerning the prevention of the abandonment of the child in the car, a highly topical problem, brought to the fore also by the most recent news. And for those who want to see the photos of the evening or admire the collection of recycled bags just visit the facebook profile of YaMa bags.
Gloria Mastrantonio
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