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THe Bothos project

Luigino Bottos has 30 years of experience and passionate work in the world of l'Image both in artistic direction as well as style coordination for numerous major Italian fashion houses. Always searching for the subtle and elusive balance between vision, creation and manufacturing techniques, each project is at once unique and part of the whole.

In Hong Kong, city and metropolis where Luigino has lived since 2004 and transferred his “creative laboratory,” the Bothos project is continually inspired by his imagination and, ultimately, realized.

Bothos Laborathory HK is the physical as well as conceptual location where the Bothos style-lines are defined, developed, and created.

A team of creators, designers, and thinkers starting from an inspiration related to the Bothos concept and imagery search, experiment, propose and implement ideas.

The Team’s creative research method was built upon the couturier approach of Bothos Laborathory in order to guarantee that every single accessory is realized “a regola d’arte” or “to the standard or rule of the art” while maintaining the original style footprint.

Obsessive attention to quality connects the intellectual dimension to form and final product through traditional methods of master leather craftsmen.

Exhaustive study and consideration of size/proportion permutations address the issue of the fit of the accessory when worn, striving to steal from and at the same time become closer to the realm of art.

Bothos Laborathory is a place where experiments never cease to teach, inspired by a world rich in visual imagery and creativity, a world in which there exists a constant quest for innovation.

Laborathory and Bothos HQ in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong provides Bothos Laborathory inspiration, energy, and the desire of self-expression. As the modern interpretation of the Silk Road it is the ideal place between East and West.

On 20 Hollywood Road, in the heart of Hong Kong, home to the most important galleries of modern art in the city, between the districts of SoHo, the “evening quarter,” and Lan Kwai Fong, the soul of Hong Kong glam, the first Bothos Concept Store was built. Years later the store was also enriched by the addition of another space next door at 22 Hollywood Road.

They are permanent installations where all the collections, moods, inspiration of the brand are expressed. It is a continuous performance, a theater of action in perpetual evolution to deepen the concepts that feed the Bothos world and establishes the product as the protagonist.

Bothos has a strong link to its Italian origins; Venice as the "port" of departure of this journey; Hong Kong as an ideal base and at the same time one step of the Bothos Project.

“The Journey” and “En-Route Reflection” are part and parcel of the Bothos Imagination.

The journey along a modern Silk Road, a real physical contact at the transition between East and West pregnant with exchanges, goods, ideas, cultures and traditions, becomes images of places seen and subject matter which itself contaminates the Bothos design.

Intense inspiration that often presents itself with a strong aesthetic personality characterized by themes that have inspired generations of Orientalists. Embroidery made by Indian masters or by the hands of the line that embroidered for the Emperor of Heaven. At times unexpected choices of materials, leathers or workmanship, sometimes ethereally modified and perceived through a color tone or a sinuous symbol.

Travel also conceptualized as a Daily Journey, Bothos is meant to dress the varied uses of daily metropolitan life, a piece of Couture that takes on the style of those who wear it, their way of life.

Bothos bags must be worn to be fully understood A particular wear-ability contaminates and at the same time absorbs the style of the wearer chasing the idea of fusion of the concepts of "embodiment" and appearance, but also worn and attire.

The journey that inspires Bothos passes through the concepts of Couture and Design. It is also a physical expression of the creation of unique handmade pieces and the definition of the perfect form.