Travelling business The cargo of the frequent-flying executive is a study in competing needs: it has to be tough enough to survive all that mileage yet light enough to keep the sprinting steady; it has to be stylish enough to suggest distinction yet understated enough to project a sense of seriousness. As practical as it is artful, Tumi is the perfect choice for the blue chip in perpetual motion. The Short Trip Expandable from the brand’s Alpha 2 Collection combines svelte leather seams with tough ballistic nylon, striking an expert balance between pith and polish. Navigating a terminal practically becomes a joyride with the bag’s four multidirectional wheels, and its astonishing array of compartments saves time and separates business from pleasure. The Trip’s sibling in the Alpha 2 Collection, the wheeled garment bag, is roomy and durable as well as dark and handsome, and its folding frame is a marvel of contemporary design. If these pieces are the very image of power – like the Tumi, the sacrificial knife of the Incas after which the brand is named – then the featherweight totables from Porsche Design suggest the full-throttle pace of a man without a minute to lose. A casual complement to the hulking severity of Tumi, Porsche’s duffel is the perfect grab for the eleventh-hour business flight in which every checked bag is a bet against time. And Porsche’s sleek polyester backpacks are a staple of the suited set across the Pond, where headlong capitalists speed to meetings on Vespas, their hands concerned not with hauling luggage but with steering toward the next deal. 1 2 3 4 1 Tumi Alpha 2 Short Trip Expandable; tumi.com 2 Tumi Alpha 2 Wheeled Medium Trip 3 Porsche Design backpack; porsche-design.com 4 Porsche Design duffel Photos victor prado; styling richie owings for halley resources; ILLUStrations quickhoney Chako BY L-ATITUde shoplatitude.com To a certain kind of traveller, vacation means one wave of nostalgia after another. A trip is tied to the Kodak, and all the plot points of an itinerary are pinned to the pages of the scrapbook that soon will recall them. For these wide-eyed sentimentalists, no brand has more cachet than Globe-TROTTER – a perennial favourite of the British royal family and an enduring emblem of the Golden Age of Travel. Like every piece the brand produces, its suitcase and accompanying attaché are masterworks handcrafted with the same Victorian machinery it has used since 1897. The style in white, a collaboration with Etiquette Clothiers, puts fresh details on a familiar frame with a patterned silk lining by Dutch artist Jonny Detiger. Smythson smythson.com Going nostalgic Passport SecurITY The most precious of cargo is actually the lightest. Make sure your passport is well protected in a cover that’s easy to spot – and easy to grab –amid the various ephemera in your bag. While the form remains ever the same, Globe-Trotter’s colourways are as diverse as the rainbow, though after browsing the wares on its website (globetrotter1897.com), it may be best to source them at the London flagship store. And few luxury brands embrace their vintage present more lovingly than Prada, which started out as a luggage supplier to the Italian aristocracy in 1913, long before diversifying into ready-towear. Complete the set with a leather tote and carryall, whose midcenturyinspired design and mod patterning evoke the resort boom of the 1950s. While the Globe-Trotter will have any citizen of the world looking like he stepped straight off the Orient- Express, the Prada will suggest he is about to board Pan Am. Bottega VenETA bottegaveneta.com 1 2 3 4 Asprey asprey.com 1 Etiquette x Globe-Trotter attaché; etiquetteclothiers.com 2 Etiquette x Globe-Trotter suitcase 3 & 4 Prada Saffiano bags; prada.com CENTURION-Magazine.com 41
