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My Personality on My Bag

Why do all bags look identical? Pins from soda tabs, patches from old jeans, everything from scratch.
Year
2025
Materials
Handmade pins from soda tabs and handmade patches sewn on the bag
Field
DIY · wearable · punk
My Personality on My Bag by Defne Celet, final work
Final workHandmade pins from soda tabs and handmade patches sewn on the bag
About
this work

Personalizing my bag to fit my aesthetic and leave the generic factory look. Why do all the bags look identical, and no one decorates them to their liking? During my research on pins and patches, the punk style and the ideology have inspired me a lot. The DIY idea inspired me to create the pins from soda tabs and pins and patches from old jeans, building everything from scratch. I picked these materials instead of buying ready-made pins or patches to follow the DIY spirit. Doing all this taught me that personalizing bags is very easy and perfectly lets me show my personality.

Research + process

How it was made

Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin
Soda tab pin

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