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Story Our goal is to craft fashion from utility – to create useful, understated items that get better with time. We built our own shirt and jacket factory and connected it to our design studio so a collaborative spirit could exist. Our factory is small, but produces great products with a personal feel. In stark contrast to most brands, we design and make many of our products within feet of each other – not oceans apart. History Hlaska was founded in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, in 2005 by Anthony Mazzei and Chad Hurley. What started as a collaboration to make stylish work bags, expanded over the years to become a full offering of bags, wallets, clothing, and even watches. THE NAME HLASKA - We already had prototypes of our first wallets in hand but they sat blank without a name. Grabbing an old atlas, thinking it might have a good name for us I started to search. Everything already had an association connected with it. I kept coming back to the name Alaska, drawn to its K and As. Spotting Hawaii on the map, I wondered what would happen if I joined the two names. It was both familiar and exotic and it could be an open canvas for our designs to fill it with meaning. At the time, I had no idea how often questions would swirl around our company name. Mission accomplished. – Anthony Mazzei, Co-Founder and CEO
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