Chris Moore spends hours in his Coral Springs workshop caring for the finest details of beloved handbags from across the country — deconstructing pieces, matching textile colors and textures, polishing and replacing hardware, and other tasks.
That expertise comes from decades of experience learning under his father, Donald Moore, at Artbag, one of the most highly acclaimed repair houses in the nation — a house that also made history as one of the first and only Black-owned small businesses on New York City’s Madison Avenue.
The self-declared non-perfectionist works with care and precision, often on items that have passed through families for generations…