“When we were 16, we travelled to India and became fascinated by how little they wasted. We didn’t know what the word sustainability even meant back then, but it was amazing to see how they created things with so little resources and simple tools. We recognised something very beautiful in what they were doing,” says Daniel, who was recently in Hong Kong.The story goes that Markus came up with the idea of using discarded truck tarps to make their bags after watching the vehicles go by his flat window in Zurich. He took the waterproof fabric and fashioned it into their bestselling Top Cat F13, a courier bag for cyclists that fit papers ranging from A3 to A2 in size – “no one carried laptops in those days, just paper folios,” he laughs.