Tory Burch credits LIKHÂ on a $350 Dark Cocoa Ella abaca bag made in the Philippines
Tory Burch’s Dark Cocoa Ella Hand-Crocheted Popcorn Stitch Bucket Bag is $350, 100 percent abaca, made in the Philippines, and named on-page as crafted with social enterprise LIKHÂ after about 2.5 years of sampling.
Anika Rao
Tory Burch is selling a $350 Dark Cocoa Ella Hand-Crocheted Popcorn Stitch Bucket Bag with LIKHÂ named on the product page.
Style 179288 is listed as 100 percent abaca straw, made in the Philippines, with a handcrafted crochet popcorn stitch, a top-handle drop of 6.1 inches, and the brand’s hanging leather Double T charm. Tory’s own copy says this Dark Cocoa version “was crafted with LIKHÂ,” described there as a social enterprise that partners with artisans in the Philippines. LIKHÂ and Philippine press say the bag is now available in the U.S. at Tory Burch.
That credit is the story. Luxury often buys Philippine fiber and leaves the workshop off the label. Here the house put the partner in the description shoppers actually read.
Who LIKHÂ is
LIKHÂ, also styled Likha, takes its name from a Tagalog word for create. Founder and CEO Nathalie Llorente-Lim launched the company in 2018 after living across several countries, including time in New York. The brand works abaca, seagrass, palm, coconut coir, and related plant fibers into home and fashion pieces, and sells into U.S. retail including Nordstrom.
Llorente-Lim and LIKHÂ say the Ella project took about 2.5 years of sampling: reconciling the variation of handwork with a global brand’s consistency rules, then twisting and knotting abaca into the popcorn stitch. Nest, the nonprofit behind ethical handcraft programs, is thanked for support along the way. LIKHÂ has held Nest Seal certification since 2023.
Fellowship is not the bag
Llorente-Lim is a 2024 Tory Burch Foundation Fellow. She has said the fellowship and the Ella collaboration began on separate paths. Foundation support is entrepreneurship programming. The bag is a commercial SKU.
The overlap still matters for how the house shows up. A Filipina founder already inside the Foundation network now has a named production credit on a core handbag style, not only a Fellows bio page.
Craft credit, two stages
Last week we tracked a related receipt in Paris: Tilfi Banaras named on Matières Fécales textiles while the feed argued about makeup. LIKHÂ’s version is retail. Same stake, different channel. Named Global South craft where a customer can add to cart.
Our take: watch the credit language, not only the drop photos. If more houses want abaca texture next season, the question is whether the workshop stays on the page the way LIKHÂ did here. Pair the bag with Jo Malone’s Arpita Mehta Diwali keepsakes if you are mapping how craft from Asia gets calendared without being reduced to trim.
