Since 2014, Freitag has also been making clothes from the new material F-ABRIC : textiles developed in-house from bast fibers, produced in Europe with minimal use of resources and completely biodegradable. 3596).įreitag sells its products worldwide in over 350 stores and via the 26 flagship stores in Zurich (three stores), Davos, Lausanne, Basel, Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Vienna, Milan, Munich, Melbourne, Seoul (two stores), Rotterdam, Frankfurt, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Taipei, Osaka, Shanghai, Düsseldorf, Kyōto and two in Tokyo.
There is also a Top Cat, Classic L model in the permanent exhibition in the largest European bag museum, in the Hendrikje Cup Museum in Amsterdam (inv. One of the first Friday Top Cat messenger bags has been in the MoMA design collection in New York since 2003. In addition, the Freitag Reference collection was launched on the market in 2010. The use of recycled materials means that every Friday product is unique - the bags are available in countless colors and designs.įrom the first F13 TOP CAT courier bag, the Fundamentals product line was created with over 40 different models today - from smartphone covers to shopping bags to notebook bags. The cult label found numerous imitators in the period that followed, such as kultbag, cargo: bags or Lumabags. These are then processed in external sewing plants in Switzerland, Bulgaria, Portugal, the Czech Republic, France and Tunisia. The tarpaulins are dismantled, washed and the bags cut by hand on an area of around 7,500 square meters.
The factory - design, production, packaging, warehouse, office - took place on the Maag site in Zurich until 2011 and then in Zurich- Oerlikon in the NOERD commercial building. Friday processes 640 tons of truck tarpaulin, 11,000 bicycle tubes and 150,000 car seat belts every year. Since then, a range of over 80 different models has been created.įreitag lab.ag is based in Zurich and today has around 200 employees. The two passionate cyclists were inspired by New York bike messenger bags on the one hand and by long-distance haulage on the Zurich Hardbrücke - the panorama of their shared kitchen on the other. In 1993, the two brothers from Davos, graphic designers Markus Freitag and Daniel Freitag, developed a messenger bag made from old truck tarpaulins, used bicycle tubes and seat belts.