Yara.

Yara's backpack is built to carry real things through a long day. Forty-five centimeters tall, body in white 600D polyester, cream upper band where the black caiman's portrait is printed. A main compartment with a double-slider zipper and a padded interior sleeve ready for a laptop up to fifteen inches. Two parallel side pockets on the flanks, just right for a half-liter water bottle, a bundle of rolled cables, a small digital recorder, or a slim wallet. Padded shoulder straps, stitched with reinforcement at the top so they bear distributed weight without digging into the collarbone by kilometer three.

The inside of the main compartment has enough space for four or five analogue cassette tapes standing upright with room to spare, or for an A5 notebook, a pencil case, a wrapped tablet, and a folded light jacket. Not a giant trekking pack, not a miniature urban bag: a medium everyday size, designed for someone moving between home and office, between class and library, between a café and a studio. Whoever carries a laptop, notebook, headphones, compact camera, and a sweater in case it gets cold will find a place for everything here.

The print pattern doesn't cover the entire backpack. The piece has two visible zones: the lower white body, which takes up roughly two thirds of the surface, and the cream upper band where Yara's full portrait sits. The band starts just above the laptop compartment and extends to the top edge, including the grab handle and the strap attachment point. The print is applied in a single pass, with no seams interrupting the portrait, so the ivory-cream bomber jacket and the white ribbed-knit sweater, the two gold rings on either side of her lower jaw, and the neutral background of the original are readable at a glance.

The white-cream combination solves a common problem with printed backpacks: when the portrait's background is already light, an all-white backpack dilutes the image. The cream band acts as a chromatic frame, underlining the rectangle where the portrait lives and leaving the rest of the backpack in clean white. The fine gold rings in the portrait — picking up the warm accent of the cream — work here as a visual signature. Seen from a distance, the upper band reads first. Up close, you recognize the gold.