The origins of the name "Paolo Vinetti" started off as an alter ego, sitting down at the third or fourth bar with a late night out with friends in Chicago. Seriously, go check the first Instagram post! I was doing a cross country roadtrip series with a brewing company, and after a while, I got bored being by myself and I would do these random accents & personas based on the regions I traveled to. That night in Chicago, I was doing this second generation "Bronx" Italian pizzeria alternate ego impersonation and slapping my friends faces telling them "ya disgusting beautiful son-of-a-bitch! I love ya!" They asked me who I was and I said, "I'm Paolo! Paolo Vinetti!" I started my "finstagram" that night, documenting my roadtrip series, then eventually forgot about it afterwards.

The account laid dormant for years - until!! - in 2o2o I thought I'd take up sewing as a hobby during the pandemic. I actually started embroidering but it quickly turned in to sewing. The year previously I had the opportunity to do a little European tour and saw all these dope ass cross-body bags. I didn't have the funds to buy one at the time so I took an old accessory bag for pens and whatnot, tied a shoestring around it and called it a cross body bag! I eventually took my knowledge of embroidering and then decided to start hand sewing some things. I eventually decided to to a coin purse and quickly realized it was a lot to even handsew a little one of those. 2o21, I got a sewing machine for christmas. Thank you mom!! I broke 20 needles the first time I tried to sew but kept with it and eventually a bag turned out. I made a few more and then my roomates started to notice when I was playing around with some interesting designs. I put my actual name on one, Jordan Presley, and he said, " yo! if you put Paolo Vinetti on a different bag, I'll buy it for you." BOOM that's when Paolo Vinetti was born and I haven't looked back. Appreciate you, John, for getting this wild hobby going