When a certain cult accessories label sets out to blur the ‘tote-able’ boundaries between fashion and art, we know better than to do anything but stand at attention in anticipation. We highly recommend you follow suit and ready yourself for the Deadly Ponies Yingo Yango collection.

Endeavouring to boldly balance the contrasting energies of male and female, dark and light, the elegant outcome features a fashion forward take where colour choices and exotic textures are granted the time and space to shine. And thanks to fashion and art photographers and stylists Karen Inderbitzen-Waller and Delphine Avril Planqueel — authors of Smoke & Mirrors launched with a show at the Saatchi & Saatchi gallery in Auckland in 2013 — a charming visual merger of contemporary renaissance and antipodean rusticism has perfectly set the scene for what will, without a doubt in our minds, be the bags you’ll love to own all year long.

To peruse the Deadly Ponies Yingo Yango collection, click here.