Women's Business Backpacks

Leather business backpacks, handmade in Florence from full-grain leather. Structured enough to look right in a meeting, light enough to carry hands-free and sized to protect your laptop. Complimentary personalization, backed by a 5-year warranty.

If your tote has started to punish one shoulder, a leather backpack fixes that and keeps your hands free. The trouble is that most professional backpacks look like either gym gear or a gadget bag. Von Baer chooses full-grain leather that holds its shape and looks the part across a desk, and the two business models carry a padded compartment for a 14-inch or a 16-inch laptop. You are buying leather that ages into a patina instead of peeling, backed by a 5-year warranty.

Von Baer Business Backpacks. Designed for Female Business Professionals.

Every Von Baer Women's Business Backpack is handmade from full-grain leather instead of a coated or bonded grade, has a structure that holds its shape by your chair, and enough organization to run a working day without digging for things.

• Your bag looks like it belongs in the meeting, not at the gym. Most work backpacks look like either sportswear or a laptop caddy. We choose full-grain leather and a structured build that holds its shape, so the bag stands upright by your chair and looks like a leather bag, not gym kit. There is no logo plate and no printed wordmark, only a small embossed mark, so it works with what you wear.
• Full-grain leather that gets better with age, backed for 5 years. Cheaper bags use bonded leather or a coated split, lower grades that peel where the stitching pulls, often within a year or two. Full-grain keeps the strongest outer layer of the hide, so with everyday use it deepens in color and softens to the hand. We back every bag with a 5-year warranty against faults in the materials or the making, and more than a thousand buyers have reviewed the range.
• The small everyday bag is made with the same care as the larger ones. We design the range and work with family-owned studios in Florence that cut and stitch each bag by hand, the same workshops for the compact everyday backpack as for the larger business bags. Every one is full-grain leather, the top layer of the hide that wears in rather than out, finished with signature hardware in a tone that matches the leather.
• One honest price, with duties and personalization already in it. The figure on each product page is what you pay at the door: we cover the shipping, duties and taxes, so nothing extra arrives with the parcel. We set one price on each bag and keep it there, with no seasonal markdowns to wait out. Personalization is part of it on the business models, with your initials hand-embossed on the included leather luggage tag at no charge.
  

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Von Baer Women's Backpacks. Quiet Luxury Executive Aesthetic.

These Von Baer bags cover three ways of working. One is a compact everyday backpack for the days you carry little more than a phone and a notebook. One is a structured work bag sized for a 14-inch laptop and a full desk of essentials. The third converts between a backpack, a messenger and a travel bag for the weeks you spend moving between airports and meetings.

If your day is a commute, a laptop and a run of meetings, the Liberty is the one to reach for. A padded sleeve protects a 14-inch laptop, two zipped front pockets and three pen slots keep the small things findable, and the structured panels let it stand on its own by your chair so you reach straight in. It is cut from Cuoio Superiore vegetable-tanned full-grain leather, the certified Italian leather that develops a patina with use, lined in natural cotton canvas rather than the polyester most bags use. At 1.4 kg (3.1 lbs) it stays light for a daily carry, and your initials go on the leather luggage tag it comes with, at no extra cost. If laptop protection is your priority, our laptop backpacks focus on exactly that.

For weeks with back-to-back flights, the 10X does the job of two bags. It wears as a backpack for the long walk through a terminal, then a few buckles turn it into a messenger or a hand-carried travel bag for the plane. The padded sleeve takes a 15.6-inch laptop and fits a 16-inch MacBook Pro, four removable padded dividers keep chargers and folders in order, and the whole bag expands from roughly 21 to 28 liters when an overnight turns into two. Like the Liberty it is Cuoio Superiore vegetable-tanned full-grain leather with a cotton canvas lining, and it stays within cabin and personal-item limits. At 2 kg (4.4 lbs) it is the heaviest of the three, because it carries a whole trip on your back; the 10X page has the full detail.

On the days you leave the laptop at home, a compact everyday backpack is enough for a phone, a cardholder, keys and a slim notebook, carried hands-free. The Bella is that bag: at 0.6 kg (1.3 lbs) it is the lightest in the range, with an outside zipped pocket for what you grab first and a slip pocket inside that holds a phone. It is made from soft full-grain pebble leather, so it takes the knocks of a commute without showing them, and it works from a lunch to an evening out without looking like work. Take a closer look if a lighter carry is what you want.

Not sure a backpack is the right shape for you? Two nearby collections cover the same working day:

• Women's Leather Work Bags gather the totes, shoulder bags and laptop bags for when you would rather carry by hand than on your back.
• Want to compare more side by side? The Women's Work Backpacks range is wider still.
• Buying for him too? The men's business backpacks use the same leather and build.

Still weighing a backpack against a tote or a laptop bag? Our guide to choosing a work bag walks through the trade-offs.

If you travel with the 10X, it helps to know what counts as a personal item at the gate.

Full-grain leather is not waterproof: it handles a light shower and wipes clean, but it will not seal out water like a synthetic pack. A soaking becomes part of the patina, not the end of the bag, and how leather handles water covers the care. That trade buys you a bag that looks better in year five than in year one. A backpack also spares you the tote's one-shoulder load, the ache your neck notices after a long day.

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