Hey girls (and to the guys who shop with us too),

I started Mare di Luna by accident, on what was supposed to be a one-year break from a business degree. I moved to the South of France, told myself it was temporary, and never really left.

Here's the part that actually matters: I'm clumsy. Embarrassingly so. I've cracked screens on cobblestones, dropped my phone into a literal fountain, watched it slide off a café table more times than I can count. So I went looking for a case that could actually keep up with me, and ran straight into a wall that I think a lot of you have hit too.

Every cute case I found was breakable. Every case built to survive me looked like it belonged to someone else, bulky, generic, the kind of thing you'd never choose if looks mattered to you. And looks matter to me. My phone is in my hand in every mirror selfie, on every table at dinner, in every photo my friends take without asking. I wasn't going to carry something that didn't feel like mine just because it was "practical."

So I tested everything. Every material, every finish, every claim a case ever made about being protective, until I found the formula that actually worked: something slim enough to feel like nothing, sturdy enough to survive an actual drop, and styled enough that it said something about me, whether I wanted that something to be loud or quiet that day.

Once that existed, it made sense to keep going. I'm always listening to something, a podcast, a playlist, whatever's stuck in my head that week, so the AirPods cases came next. And I read constantly; there's nothing that ruins the fantasy of a cozy reading afternoon faster than an ugly, unprotected Kindle. So we fixed that too :)

Mare di Luna is what happens when you refuse to pick one: style or protection, standing out or staying practical. You shouldn't have to choose. I didn't want to. So now, neither do you.

Lots of love,
A 💓
Founder, Mare di Luna