Vittorio Vaghi spent around forty years in fabric, fitting out hotels the length of Italy, at the upper end of the market. What a job did not use went back to the family warehouse and stayed. Every metre lying there was bought for a hotel once: velvet, damask, striped chenille, ticking, bouclé, coated shower fabric, sixty thousand metres of it by the brand's own count. None of it is made any more. In 2010 his daughter Margherita began cutting into it.

The first two bags, Lameg and Lanic, came out of coated shower fabric from the 1970s. Launodiuno followed, a project in 2014 and now a line in the shop, each piece marked 1/1. When a length is used up, the model is finished.

For the ATP Challenger at the Villa Reale tennis club Labolsina has cut a short run twice, in 2025 and in 2026, the second year as a Challenger 125: racket covers, a shopper with an angled pocket for the handle, a duffle in printed waterproof eco-leather.

The grey and black diamond was there on the first model and has stayed. The cloth for it cannot be bought ready made, it has to be produced: two or three materials come together, velvet with eco-leather, cotton canvas with polyester, Alcantara with polyester. A laser cuts out the diamonds and high frequency welds them into a single length. What comes out did not exist before. Straps and trims are calfskin, initials on request. Every model carries the article La in its name. A Labolsina, Vaghi says, is not a bag but the bag.

What was bought for hotel rooms now goes over a shoulder.