Da Vinci, A fashion designer?

The sketch above is an actual design by Leonardo Da Vinci, the same Da Vinci who painted the Mona Lisa and constructed ideas for helicopters, parachutes and submarines!Who would have thought he had intentions of being a fashion house of sorts?

There were only fragments of the sketch and scholars managed to put the pieces together to come up with a clean and clear sketch as seen above. Gherardini, a luxury fashion house from Florence brought this sketch to life by manufacturing it as a calfskin bag called Pretiosa which means Precious.

Apparently Mr Da Vinci designed various fashion accessories, I can't wait to see what will crop up from him again.

There are only 99 bags at the moment and they will be on sale at Gherardini boutiques at the beginning of March. I can only imagine the price.