Bottega Veneta Tools

Bottega Veneta Tools is the higher-tier hand-craft sub-line of Bottega Veneta, the Italian luxury house founded in 1966 in Vicenza. The Tools sub-line was launched in 2022 under creative director Matthieu Blazy as a deliberately-craft-research-anchored sub-brand specifically focused on what Blazy described as 'the artisanal-tools and craft-workshop visual culture that has defined Bottega Veneta's broader leather-intrecciato-and-Italian-craft tradition since 1966.' The sub-line operates as a deliberately-archival research project anchored to the broader Bottega Veneta house. The Bottega Veneta Tools vocabulary settled around several specific products: hand-stitched leather workwear-derived garments and accessories with deliberately-tool-aesthetic construction details, deconstructed leather-and-canvas workwear jackets and overalls, hand-finished Italian-leather small-goods (the iconic Tools wallets, key-rings, leather-tool-rolls), heavyweight cotton-canvas work-aprons, and a colour palette anchored to natural-tan leather, oxblood, washed-cream, ecru, washed-charcoal, plus the brand's recurring use of authentic-Italian-workshop-aesthetic colour combinations. Production is overwhelmingly at the broader Bottega Veneta Vicenza atelier and the Italian-leather workshops of the Veneto region. The sub-line is part of Bottega Veneta, the Kering-owned Italian luxury house. Bottega Veneta Tools distributes through every Bottega Veneta flagship store globally — anchored to Milan (Via Montenapoleone), Paris (Avenue Montaigne), London (New Bond Street), New York (Madison Avenue), Tokyo (Ginza, Aoyama), Hong Kong, Shanghai, plus international wholesale through Net-a-Porter, MR PORTER, MATCHES, Mytheresa, the major global luxury department stores, and the broader Asian-luxury-customer distribution. The sub-line has been one of the more conceptually rigorous post-2022 'archival-craft-research-anchored' luxury-house sub-lines.