In 1971 Wolfgang Olbrisch offered the Berlin walled-in city tourists hand-made hippie belts and hand-dyed hair clips on Kurfürstendamm. In 1974 the first handbags of vegetable-tanned leather, hunting bags from the Renaissance era and the melancholy Art Nouveau were his inspiration. Using vegetable-tanned leather in times of scarce resources, it was not only the Club of Rome who was the spiritual guide.