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Backpacks From The Sun And Bags From The Ocean

The quest started as the result of a random online search. About three years ago, Salima Visram, founder of Soular, was looking for a simple handbag on the internet. She looked hard and wide, but could not find anything as minimalistic and elegant as she would’ve liked it. That’s when she asked one of the factories manufacturing for Soular to make a bag based on designs she quickly drew up.

Over the next few months, she received hundreds of compliments on her custom-made bag and then decided

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