BRAND

SENSUAL CURVES AND FUNCTIONAL LINES, BLENDING BEAUTY WITH PURPOSE IN PERFECT HARMONY

 

Founded in Paris in 2024, Saraén is conceived as a maison devoted to the art of leather—where form and matter are transfigured into living sculpture.

After graduating from L’Institut Français de la Mode in Paris and working as a designer for several French maisons, Azer Céline Bayindir honed her mastery at Louis Vuitton, Chloé, and Lanvin, before embarking on her own creative journey. Having worked at all levels of the design process—from designer to executive to consultant—throughout her fifteen-year career in Paris and Istanbul, she brings to Saraén a wealth of technical expertise and artistic vision.

Her formative years within Paris’s grandes maisons laid the foundation for an approach rooted in reverence for craft, construction, and the integrity of noble materials. This classical training is deepened by her perspective as a researcher of form and structure, constantly exploring the dialogue between function and poetry, material and idea. At the same time, her Turkish heritage grounds her sensibility in the historical, political, and aesthetic realities of her lived experience.

Saraén thus emerges as a dialogue between memory and modernity, sensibility and structure. Rooted in femininity yet unconfined by it, the brand embraces sensual lines and organic forms to compose a distinctly Parisian poetics of elegance. Each creation seeks to move beyond the notion of accessory, becoming instead a tactile meditation on beauty, movement, and time.

Every piece is born as an encounter between Parisian artistic discipline and the ancestral savoir-faire of Istanbul, Bayindir’s birthplace. Prototypes shaped in the Paris studio find their full expression in the refined hands of Istanbul’s artisans, merging two cultural legacies into a singular language of craft.

At Saraén, this dual legacy—discipline and inquiry—culminates in creations that transcend fashion, sculptural meditations on elegance, sensuality, and the lived body.

To carry a Saraén bag is to embrace a philosophy: where clarity of form meets lived sensuality, where utility is transfigured into art.