Erin Templeton was raised in the mountains outside of Vancouver, Canada. She began making leather accessories in 1999, while studying shoemaking at Cordwainer's College in London, England. By 2007, her studio graduated from renting the boiler room of a local tailor shop to the actual tailor shop, where she opened her studio/storefront in Vancouver's historic Chinatown. All designs are lovingly handmade in-house in recycled leather, imported cowhides, or locally tanned elks and bison. Erin’s fascination with the past informs designs that aim to defy trends, using minimal hardware and simple, strong construction to allow people to make pieces their own.