About Swoon London

Swoon London is a family-run British label that makes leather crossbody bags designed to carry the essentials and nothing more, and a discount code is a sensible way to try one.

What Swoon London actually sells

The range is deliberately narrow. The core is a small group of leather crossbody bags — the Downton, the Stratford and the larger Downton XL — built around one idea: a compact body that holds a phone, a card holder, keys and a lipstick without turning into a handbag you have to dig through. Around those sit interchangeable straps, from plain leather to woven and patterned webbing, plus card holders and leather keyrings. Despite the name, this is not a furniture brand; if you arrived expecting sofas, you are on the wrong Swoon.

Monogramming and price

Bags are made in leather rather than coated fabric, and most sit between an impulse buy and a serious investment piece. Complimentary monogramming is offered on most bags, which is worth thinking about before you order: personalised items are usually excluded from standard returns, so choose the colour first and the initials second. If you are buying as a gift and are unsure of the recipient's taste, the plain version is the safer order.

Choosing a bag and a strap

Buy for what you actually carry. The standard Downton and Stratford suit a phone, cards and keys; if you carry a larger phone, glasses and a notebook, size up to the XL rather than hoping it will stretch, because structured leather does not. Straps are the cheap way to change the look — one bag with two straps reads as two bags — and they are also the part that wears first. Check strap length against your height and how high you want the bag to sit.

Delivery, returns and using your code

Swoon London ships internationally, with free shipping over a spend threshold, and offers a returns window on unused, unpersonalised items along with a warranty against manufacturing faults. Outside the UK, import duty and local tax are charged by your own customs authority and are separate from anything you pay at checkout. Paste your code into the basket's promotional box before payment and check the total moves; codes are usually single-use per customer and rarely stack with an existing sale price, so if the bag you want is already reduced, compare the two figures rather than assuming the code wins.