FANUM FAUNA LEATHER

HANDCRAFTED ORIGINAL & BESPOKE LEATHER GOODS & SACRED TREASURES

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ABOUT

Fanum Fauna Leather is a female run New Orleans home based studio that delivers handcrafted bespoke leather goods locally and abroad. To the designer, Kylie Payne, utility and quality are important factors in bringing her customers the family heirlooms they deserve. Her goal is to use as much of each hide as possible to create timeless wearable art that leaves a more eco friendly and intentional impression on their community.

Sustainable fashion is trending right now for a reason; it is the solution to the environmental pollution that fast fashion has caused. It is necessary to look deeper into material use and make decisions based on environmental factors like water usage, chemical use, and waste. Making bespoke, made to order, up cycled products means lower waste, and Payne’s goal is to use as much of any natural material she comes across just like her ancestors. This heritage craft started as a way for her to preserve the sustainable fashion practices she learned in her heritage studies, and it continues to enlighten her still. She uses natural materials like bone, feather, or crystals to highlight her leather handbags/pouches, jewelry, and accessories, and each piece is designed around that material’s capabilities.

Each one of a kind piece is functional and wearable art, mastered with sustainable practices and detailed craftsmanship.

This line invites us to hold our stories sacred in communion with the fauna and flora here on Earth. Talismans, altars, and costumes are the bearers of a sacred language- a reminder and an expression of our trials and gratitude for life. This collection is about honoring the journey, about listening, and about celebrating the body & life on this planet.

“What we wear and how we decorate should not be defined by our gender, our age or our class. Fashion is a heritage craft, an expression of our spirit, illuminating the human experience, and that is too powerful to disregard. ”

— Kylie Payne

A collaboration shot and edited by Jiaya Wilson.

Home of The Portable AlTar

After being gifted my first talisman I became aware of how powerful one single charm could be- I found myself wearing it daily, and tracing it when I felt challenged. I realized jewelry can be more than an accessory; with a little intention it could represent hope, love, or stregnth and that’s when the portable altar was born.

Altars can be found in many places of spiritual or religious worship; they are traditionally used for prayer, reflection, gratitude, honor, or any form of inner work. They are an outer representation of our inner attunement, helping us to stay connected to our intentions we set for our day and our life, so I love the idea of it being mobile. There are many things that bring distortion to the energy field, and I want to make work that resonates with healing and restoring wholeness and balance.

All animal products are recycled or repurposed to bring healing, vision, guidance and transformation to a wasteful world of fast fashion.

New Orleans, La