Moleskine® was created as a brand in 1997, bringing back to life the nameless black notebooks used by writers and artists like Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and Bruce Chatwin that had long gone out of print. Today, the Moleskine brand encompasses a family of objects that enhance creativity, self-expression and the imagination, including notebooks, diaries, and planners, journals, bags, writing instruments and digital paper notebooks and apps.

The Moleskine brand is a worldwide presence thanks to over 60 Moleskine Stores.  The home office in Milan, Italy includes wholly owned subsidiaries, Moleskine America, Inc. (established in 2008), Moleskine Germany (2013), Moleskine UK (2013), Moleskine France (2013), Moleskine APAC Ltd (2018) which includes Moleskine Japan, Moleskine China and Moleskine Singapore.