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DK Bags & Clothes
Two models in white shirts and black trousers stand against a travertine wall, each holding a black DK 01 Moscow tote by its handles.

Different cities.
One signature.

Independent designer bags from Ho Chi Minh City, since 2021.

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Ho Chi Minh City, 2021

DK Bags & Clothes is an independent designer label, founded in Ho Chi Minh City in 2021 by Denis Kurchenko. It starts from one idea: the working parts of an object — pockets, closures, straps — can be the design itself.

Black-and-white studio portrait: a model holds the DK 01 Moscow tote up by its handles, front pockets facing the camera.
Archive 2021

DK 01

Moscow

The first DK design. A structured unisex tote organised by a grid of external pockets. Ten pieces were made in Vietnam. Several are still carried every day.

Year
2021
Series
10 pieces
Made in
Vietnam
Close view of the DK 01 Moscow front: three zipped pockets with metal zips and a flat panel carrying the DK mark.
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The City Collection

Six cities, one design language. Moscow is the original, made in 2021. Saigon, Tokyo, Bangkok, Rome and Paris are design concepts in development.

  1. 01MoscowArchive 2021
    A model in black lifts the DK 01 Moscow tote by its handles against a warm brown studio wall, showing the grid of front pockets.
  2. 02SaigonDesign concept
    Concept sketch of DK 02 Saigon, a crossbody
  3. 03TokyoDesign concept
    Concept sketch of DK 03 Tokyo, a backpack
  4. 04BangkokDesign concept
    Concept sketch of DK 04 Bangkok, a travel / weekender
  5. 05RomeDesign concept
    Concept sketch of DK 05 Rome, a briefcase
  6. 06ParisDesign concept
    Concept sketch of DK 06 Paris, a handbag

Our story

It started at a red light.

In 2021, riding through central Ho Chi Minh City, Denis Kurchenko noticed a bag on the back of another motorbike. At the red light he looked closer. When the light turned green he followed, overtook the rider and stopped to ask where it was from — so suddenly that the two of them nearly collided.

The rider was Anh. The bag wasn’t from a shop; he made bags himself. Denis brought sketches, Anh helped turn them into a physical bag, and ten pieces of the first design were produced in Vietnam.

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Function is part of the design.

  • Function

    Every element has a reason.

    If a pocket exists, it has a job. If it has a job, it should be easy to reach. Nothing is added for decoration alone.

  • Architecture

    Geometry creates identity.

    Clear planes, strong silhouettes and pockets of different sizes set in considered relation — a structure recognisable across a room.

  • Culture

    Cities set the brief.

    The pace of a place, how people move through it and what they carry inform the proportion, colour and mood of each model.

  • Versatility

    The object adapts to real life.

    Hand, shoulder, cross-body. Work, travel, evening. A bag should follow the day rather than interrupt it.

Design philosophy
In profile against a brown studio wall, a model carries the DK 01 Moscow tote over the shoulder.

Lookbook

DK 01 Moscow, photographed in the studio and on the street.

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Black-and-white studio image of a model in profile carrying the DK 01 Moscow tote on the shoulder, his shadow on the wall behind.

Founder & Designer

Denis Kurchenko

Russia is part of his cultural background. Vietnam is where his brand was born. DK Bags & Clothes sits between the two — and looks outward, to the cities where people actually use what they carry.

About the designer

In development

Bags & Clothes

The name has always held both. Bags came first — they are where the DK language was tested. Clothing is part of the brand’s future development and will follow the same principles: function you can see, structure you can feel, pieces made for real cities.