.BRAND DNA
* BAL DESIGNS / Handmade in Cologne
Designer Rita Balta founded Bal Designs in 2014. The brand believes in a healthy environment and in high-quality products. Bal Designs is convinced that slow fashion and everybody´s sustainable consumption can have a strong impact on the environment.
The brand obtains its basketballs from local schools and sports clubs. In this way, they not only create beautiful bags but first of all clean up the environment in which we live and work. They then proceed with the collected balls in their workshops in Cologne.
Each Bal Designs bag is handmade, unique, and tells its own story. Their customers spend a lot of time looking for the perfect bag because the joy of the bag lasts for eternity.
behind the scene images by BAL DESIGNS
“We believe in a clean environment.
That's why we recycle basketballs and design unique bags. Sustainable and fair."
Rita Balta, Founder
To continue the vision behind Bal Designs, they plant a tree for every product sold. By this, not only the forest grows, but we, in general, have a positive impact on the C02 emissions.
In 2016, founder Rita Balta became an ambassador for the European Union´s Environmental Campaign „Generation Awake“.
concept & styling Rita Balta
photographed by Tom Edelkind
Model Jamil