I've been creating ever since I can remember and its not until I realized the power of expression that I began to truly understand the why of my being. I'm 25, 6'3", 180lb and have a charming personality…. on the right day of course. I embrace change and non-conformity and am very aware that I am here to encourage others to do so as well. I'm a hopeless anachronistic that bows in the presence of esthetic and beauty from past worlds yet I see myself traveling 186,000 miles per second enamored with modern design and future dimensions.

The one thing that stands out about my bags is the structured silhouette, which embodies power and beauty, femininity and masculinity, the classic and the modern. Creating a wonderful sense of ambiguity, which most people are afraid yet fascinated by. The audience I target is a strong one, a confident and grounded one who knows what to wear and how to wear it.

In pursuit of my stylistic vision I founded “Antinous Couture” in 2002 to fill the need of haute couture fashion and accessories at an affordable price, but as experience would show it was the latter which offered a greater measure of versatility and popular accessibility. This encouraged me to release my line of leather accessories under my own name, Lui Antinous. I have an eminent artistic background in painting, drawing, sculpting, performing and shocking which I incorporate in every design.

I had to go through fourteen different sample makers till I found the right one, one of the sample makers had a stroke while I was working with him and I had to help take him to the hospital were after working in leather for thirty odd years he passed away, I’ve held on to that very last accessory he worked on just to honor his existence as a fellow artisan.

My greatest achievement is to have done what I love to do and not have the mental conditioning I was brought up with thwart my dreams but instead to find my self and not be afraid or intimidated to pursue my passions.
Its all worth it so that some kid some were will look at my work and be inspired to believe in him or herself, raise their heads high….. and keep on pushin!