Designer Ellen Truijen makes leather bags and accessoires that stand out because of their simplicity and thought through detailing where the emphasis is on the different leather qualities used. Before venturing into bag design, Truijen worked, among others, as a professional dancer and prop designer in the fashion industry. She started developing her ideas for bags in the year 2000 and soon found friends and aquaintances eager to get their hands on one of her designs. This prompted her to start thinking about a collection and she founded her own label, Ellen Truijen in 2002. Leather aficionados are drawn to the collection that is divided into several lines, Ellen Truijen basics and lines that change with every season. Together they make for around thirty different designs. To accomodate the abiding demand for certain popular designs, the basic collection was established. They feature the same designs in changing varieties. The high quality leather used for her products is selected with great care and the bags are handmade in the Netherlands by passionate craftsmen.