Troubadour Goods founders Samuel Bail and Abel Samet are on a quest to make bags that are functional but also eco-friendly. It’s not been a straightforward journey. “We’re not bag experts. We started this business largely to create bags for ourselves,” says Samet.
They began their bag company while still working day jobs at a financial institution. In fact, they’d get leather hides for their new startup delivered to their desk. It was not the ideal setup.
But ten years later, Troubadour now has its first retail store in London. At the height of the pandemic, they took a risk, opening a store in the busy