Black star wallet

A zip-around wallet that opens flat

Pull the gold slider and the wallet lies open in one movement, because the zip runs round three sides rather than stopping at a corner. Everything inside stays in view at once, which matters more than it sounds when you are paying at a counter with a queue behind you. Closed again, the zip teeth sit flush with the edge and nothing catches on a bag lining.

What fits inside 14x10 cm

Flat slots take the cards you actually carry, and the middle section holds notes folded once. At 14x10 cm this is a short wallet, not a travel one: it is sized for the cards and notes of a single day, and it stops there on purpose.

A black tassel on a gold chain

The charm hanging beside the slider is cut from the same grained material as the body, so it reads black rather than shiny, and only its chain and small cap pick up the gold. It also gives the zip something to pull on, which helps when your hands are cold.

The silver star and the grained black finish

Two surfaces do the work here. The body is matt and evenly grained, so the grain breaks the light up rather than bouncing it back, while the silver glitter star sits proud of it and shifts in the light. The back panel is left plain, so the wallet reads as plain black the moment it is turned face down.

When a small wallet is the right one

Plenty of days do not need a full-size wallet: a walk into town, a train journey, an evening where the whole bag is barely bigger than the wallet itself. Black suits all of those, and the star stops it looking severe. If you would rather have more room, or another way of closing it, look through how the other wallets in the range fasten before you decide.