Hunting Season crafts The Saddle, a handbag born from ranch
Danielle Ojeda translates the functional elegance of equestrian saddle bags into a slim, curved shoulder bag that moves with the body. The Saddle arrives as a love letter to life at the ranch.
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The geometry of a saddle bag, refined through generations of working horsemanship, carries an uncomplicated logic. It must sit flat against the horse without interruption. It must not shift or swing. From this constraint emerges a shape of surprising elegance: slim, curved, purposeful.
Danielle Ojeda, the founder of Hunting Season, recognised in this silhouette the makings of something altogether different. The same proportions that ensure a saddle bag lies close to the animal’s body create, when translated into leather and handbag hardware, an object that settles against the wearer with quiet intimacy. The curve becomes sculpture. The function becomes form.
The Saddle retains the essentials of its equestrian ancestry: the distinctive curved flap, the slimness that allows the bag to move with rather than against the body, and edges touched by western inspiration. A tassel hangs at its base, an echo of working tack. Long straps allow the bag to rest at the hip or across the body, a detail born from practical need but refined into something genuinely beautiful.
In conversation with Ojeda, the bag emerges not as historical pastiche but as an intimate connection, a piece that holds the memories and spirit of ranch life even when distance intervenes. It is leather shaped by someone who understands horses and the people who work alongside them, translated into something a person who loves both that life and the city can carry without apology.
The Saddle is available through Hunting Season.
Imagery courtesy of Hunting Season (@huntingseasonnyc).
