Funky but chic. Urbane more than urban style.
Fausta Zambelli was born in the city of Padova, where she lives with her two children, husband, and dog.
A former student of foreign languages she learned to understand and admire the surprisingly extraordinary properties of rubber while working in the tire recapping company founded by her paternal grandfather in 1919.
After dedicating the next ten years exclusively to her family, Fausta thought of a way to develop her creativity on an ingenious hunch: transfer her family’s legacy of knowledge and know-how in rubber materials to a sector much closer to her own particularly feminine sensitivity and taste.
This was the birth of Ummagumma, the visionary and creative “tire repair woman”, designer, stylist, and artist who transforms old inner tubes into shoulder bags, belts, sandals, shoes, even vases and other items of interior décor.
A former student of foreign languages she learned to understand and admire the surprisingly extraordinary properties of rubber while working in the tire recapping company founded by her paternal grandfather in 1919.
After dedicating the next ten years exclusively to her family, Fausta thought of a way to develop her creativity on an ingenious hunch: transfer her family’s legacy of knowledge and know-how in rubber materials to a sector much closer to her own particularly feminine sensitivity and taste.
This was the birth of Ummagumma, the visionary and creative “tire repair woman”, designer, stylist, and artist who transforms old inner tubes into shoulder bags, belts, sandals, shoes, even vases and other items of interior décor.