Two members of the family on a stone terrace

History

A family history of high leather goods

I

1954

A story between Hungary and France.

OSZI draws its origins from Hungary and France, in the story of a man who chose freedom at the cost of leaving everything behind.

In 1954, when the Hungarian regime asks him to return home, Oszkár refuses. He knows what this choice implies: leaving behind, for good, a part of his life, his country and his history.

Nicknamed OSZI, “autumn” in Hungarian, he then crosses borders with the instinctive elegance that had always defined him.

Young Oszkár in a white shirt
Oszkár elegantly dressed, next to a woman
Oszkár with a cigarette
II

The women

A strength that is passed down.

Around Oszkár, several generations of women carried this same independence.

They worked, raised their families, lived through hardship and built their own path with a quiet strength.

A century later, Félix Tamas, their great-grandson, pays tribute to them through the Maison he founds.

Two women of the family and a young boy, studio portrait
Portrait of Erzsi
Erzsi seated in an armchair
Erzsi and children on a bench in a park
III

The first piece

It all begins with a photograph.

The photograph he found: Oszkár and his gleaming shoes

A photograph, found again.

Oszkár appears in it, impeccably dressed. Félix’s eye stops on one detail: his shoes, gleaming with an almost obsessive precision.

Félix begins to learn leatherwork. Little by little he discovers the material, the gesture and the know-how that give it form.

His first work with leather gives birth to a card holder.

The ROSZI bag

From this first piece, OSZI is born: a Maison founded on an uncompromising idea of beauty, one that lets the material speak and inscribes in every creation a part of those who shaped it.

The Maison’s first manifesto bears a name: ROSZI, in tribute to the founding figure of his family.

ROSZI