About Us
Los Angeles Handbag & Accessories Brand Since 2005
Urban Expressions is a Los Angeles-based handbag and accessories brand founded in 2005. For more than 20 years, we have designed women's handbags and accessories that combine trend-forward style, everyday functionality, quality construction, animal-friendly materials, and accessible pricing.
From totes, crossbody bags, shoulder bags, backpacks, and evening bags to travel accessories and everyday essentials, our goal has remained the same: create products that look great, work well, and offer exceptional value.
Our Story
Urban Expressions was founded in Los Angeles in 2005 by two longtime friends and entrepreneurs who saw an opportunity to create a more modern approach to animal-friendly handbags.
From the beginning, the brand focused on creating fashionable alternatives to traditional leather handbags without sacrificing style, functionality, or affordability. More than two decades later, those principles continue to guide every Urban Expressions collection.
Our Los Angeles design team follows emerging fashion trends, colors, materials, silhouettes, and the changing ways women use their handbags and accessories. We translate those influences into versatile designs made for everyday life.
Women's Handbags Designed for Real Life
We believe a handbag should do more than complete an outfit. It should make everyday life easier.
Urban Expressions designs women's handbags and accessories for work, travel, weekends, evenings, and everything in between. Our collections include everyday totes, crossbody bags, shoulder bags, backpacks, clutches, evening bags, and other fashion accessories designed to balance style and practicality.
Whether you're looking for an everyday handbag, a lightweight crossbody, a work tote, a travel bag, or a statement piece for a night out, Urban Expressions creates accessories designed to move with you.
Vegan Handbags & Animal-Friendly Design
Animal-friendly design has been part of Urban Expressions since the company was founded.
As an active PETA-affiliated brand, Urban Expressions uses high-quality vegan materials to create handbags and accessories that offer the look, feel, durability, and functionality our customers expect.
Our approach allows us to create modern vegan handbags and accessories while staying true to the principles that have been part of the Urban Expressions brand since 2005.
Style, Quality & Value
Great design shouldn't have to come with an inaccessible price tag.
Urban Expressions has always focused on delivering the right balance of fashion, functionality, quality, and value. We pay close attention to the details that matter—from materials and hardware to organization, proportions, comfort, and everyday usability.
Our goal is simple: create handbags and accessories people are excited to carry, make them well, and price them fairly.
Introducing Urban Essentials
As Urban Expressions has evolved, our product assortment has expanded beyond traditional handbags and fashion accessories.
Urban Essentials is an extension of the Urban Expressions brand family, created to bring our approach to design, functionality, and value into more areas of everyday life.
Urban Essentials includes cosmetic bags, travel organizers, pouches, accessories, and other thoughtfully designed everyday products, with new categories continuing to expand the collection.
Like Urban Expressions, Urban Essentials is built around a simple philosophy: useful products can also be stylish, well designed, and accessible.
Urban Expressions at a Glance
- Founded: 2005
- Based in: Los Angeles, California
- Specialty: Women's handbags and accessories
- Materials: Animal-friendly and vegan materials
- PETA Status: Active PETA-affiliated brand
- Brand Family: Urban Expressions and Urban Essentials
- Retail Presence: United States and international markets
- Design Philosophy: Fashion, functionality, quality, and value
More Than 20 Years of Urban Expressions
What began as a Los Angeles handbag company in 2005 has grown into an established accessories brand with a broad retail presence across the United States and international markets.
While fashion continues to change, our philosophy has remained remarkably consistent:
Create products people want to use. Make them functional. Make them fashionable. Offer exceptional value. And keep getting better.
