Adventures in Asia…

We know that there is a global fan base for our canvas bags which have been spotted everywhere from Mumbai to Mauritius. So we have some good news for customers in Hong Kong and Singapore. 

We have produced some gorgeous bags with a series of animal prints for the high end 360 Supermarket chain in Hong Kong.

The bags are unique in that 360 have decided not to put their own logo anywhere on the bag. Instead they have chosen to provide some information about us on the inside pocket…

And it’s not just the Hong Kong market that re-wrap have managed to enter. You can now purchase one of these sophisticated bags at the famous Raffles Hotel in Singapore too. 

Re-Wrap & Louboutin: A Perfect Pair….

Christian Louboutin’s first UK retrospective exhibition opened to the public this week at London’s Design Museum. If a pair of Louboutin’s have remained another elusive item on your designer wish list then we’ve got some wonderful news for you. A beautifully put together book celebrating Louboutin’s career to date will be on sale at the exhibition and with every purchase of the book visitors will receive this fabulous Louboutin Re-wrap bag!

Re-wrap goes High Fashion…

Cutting edge designer Hussein Chalayan is one of our newest clients. To celebrate the launch of his Grey Line and the brand new E-store, customers will receive a free Limited Edition Chalayan Tote bag when they buy online. Grab one while stocks last! 

Seeing Red…

We took our iconic Daunt Book Bag and gave it a festive makeover by creating 2000 limited edition bags which sold out in a blink of an eye once they hit the shops.

The general public seem to have got themselves all in a frenzy over how to get their hands on the coveted products…

Sara Philippidis from Art Wednesday summed it up well -

“There is a Daunt books hierarchy, also. Many times have I been walking the streets and spotted someone carrying a Daunt Books bag - it is like a secret society. We smile shyly, nod our head, and continue walking on, confident in the fact that we belong…You may have seen the…much cooler green satchel, but apparently - and this is something I have only just discovered - there is also a red satchel…The red is clearly a much less common, rarer satchel, and is obvious proof of being on some higher intellectual plane in the Daunt echelon of customers than I myself am. I am now, of course, determined to get my envious, twitching hands on one.”

http://artwednesday.com/2011/03/09/sex-the-bookstore

So, if you’re one of the lucky ones who managed to get your hands on our gorgeous Crimson Christmas Daunt Bag then you can give yourself a pat on the back. If, however like most people you are furious at having missed your opportunity we have good news…

There are more gorgeous limited edition colours coming in the Spring! So keep a watchful eye on your local Daunt Book shop to snap one up as soon as they hit the shelves.

Lush has Christmas all Wrapped Up…

With just one month to go, the countdown to Christmas has most certainly begun! Banish those anxieties about gift buying because we have just the answer…

Our wonderful clients at Lush have got Christmas all “wrapped up” for you with a range of their heavenly cosmetics beautifully presented in an ecological alternative to wrapping paper. The Organic Cotton Knot Wraps which re-wrap have produced for Lush are not only gorgeous, but have also enabled Lush to save 11.6 tones of waste this year!





                             Choose from the adorable Penguin Knot Wrap

                                                      Mr. Frosty

                                          Or The Christmas Pudding

The Daunt Books Bag Phenomenon…

The most famous and coveted of all our products has got to be the Daunt Book Bag. What can only be described as a “phenomenon” began back in 2008 when model Anouk Lepere was spotted carrying the bag.

“If the Daunt Bookshop has become a destination, then the canvas Daunt Book bag has become an unlikely fashion icon. Designed by Diana Liu, the bag achieved cult status when it was photographed on the arm of model Anouck Lepere outside the Tuileries on the Sartorialist Blog…The green and white Daunt bag is now the sine qua non in the wardrobe of any aspiring blue-stocking about town.”
http://www.varsity.co.uk/arts/1575


“Ever since we saw this Sartorialist pic of Jefferson Hack (co-founder and editor of Dazed & Confused, aka ‘father of Kate Moss’s child’) and his fiancée, Belgian model Anouk Lepere, we’ve been thinking about their bag of choice (because we have too much time on our hands) which is a re-usable ‘eco’ shopper from Daunt Books… and we rather love it for a number of reasons.

Of course being Jefferson Hack and Anouk Lepere helps enormously in making a cheap canvas shopping bag look cool, but it’s a perfectly nice bag anyway (with the added intellectual posturing and good taste cachet which comes with Daunt Books), and it’s more appropriate (and original) than being seen with, say, a giant Chanel shopper in the current economic climate.”
http://hapsical.blogspot.com/2008/11/jefferson-hack-anouk-leperes-bag.html


The Daunt Bag has been on the receiving end of it’s fair share of cultural commentary - and here is one of our favourites (in a tongue and cheek kind of way):


“Thank goodness… for the Daunt’s Bookshop cloth book bag. Whenever I see one, it reassures me that there are still some upper middle class people out there who like things unflashy. These are the old-money, low-fuss Londoners who would never shop at Harrods, and who go to the opera at Convent Garden but hop on the Number 19 bus home afterwards.


A friend recently spotted one a long way from a Daunt’s branch, in New York, and we discussed the volumes it speaks about the wearer. First of all it tells you, obviously, that he or she buys books and uses environmentally-sound cloth bags. Secondly, that they buy travel books, (preferably published by Eland), hinting that the bag wearer travels to places other than Gstaad. And finally, the understated wealth associated with the bag comes from the location of the bookshop’s branches in Chelsea, Cheapside, Hampstead, Belsize Park, Holland Park and Marylebone.”
http://www.middleclasshandbook.co.uk/journal/2010/11/5/the-best-bag-in-britain-why-a-small-london-book-chains-bag-l.html


Another Blogger seems to agree with the above, posting an image of the one and only Helena Bonham-Carter toting the Daunt Bag with the caption:

Who knew that this is the message you are conveying when leaving the house with your gorgeous Daunt Bag draped proudly over your shoulder? Certainly not us!


Here’s a little reminder of the very humble origins of this very fabulous bag…