BIO
SUSAN SZATMÁRY is a modern luxury brand founded in Sweden, influenced by Susan’s multitude and diverse cultural background. Susan´s vision is to create high end accessories with a unique identity, that provide luxurious simplicity and delicate elegance. Her accessories offer uncompromising quality, timeless luxury, and designed with impeccable craftsmanship. Susan’s focus is on sustainability focusing on great timeless products that do not sacrifice themselves to passing trends. The brand will focus only on introducing one or two new models per year.
Susan is a Swedish designer and consultant for luxury brands accessories. She was born in Baghdad and raised in Sweden, studied in Italy and has lived in London and Paris. She has worked for Alexander McQueen, Céline, Elie SAAB, and Paco Rabanne. She is currently working for various brands and a brand under her own name. She studied in different schools of art and worked as a scenographer before moving into the fashion industry. Her interest in leather goods started when she began experimenting with natural leather in the same studio that her mother used to do her ceramics. She made her bags by herself from old leathers jackets that she bought in vintage stores. Her interest and love for Art and History has shaped her path in life as well as her work.
Susan presented the Valisette collection inspired by the Deco Period with an industrial touch in Paris September 2018 and was written about in Vogue November 2018. The article penned by Laird Borrelli-Persson says "Susan Szatmáry Rolls Into the Accessories Market With a Wheeled “Valisette” Bag Packed With Wow Factor" and "Susan Szatmáry Is an Accessories Designer to Watch - Vogue".
Susan Was nominated as "Future Talent" in 2019 with Nordiska Kompaniet in Stockholm and was awarded as "Accessories Designer of the year" 2020 for Elle Sweden and a winner of the prestigious Prize "Guldknappen Accessoar" Gold Button Accessories with Damersnasvärld 2020.
