Luxury Luggage

Designer luggage is something that I never even considered using, for the following reasons:

1. It is never a good thing to attract too much attention at airport/ custom. Particularly if you are travelling in places where pick pockets are common, or places that aren't safe in general; or if you live in country where they levy heavy taxes on purchases you bring home from your trip. Using designer luggage will only make you look like a good target to rob/ to tax. (essentially I consider taxation and robbery not significantly different from one another) Thanks to terrorism, the customs are now much stricter when it comes to examining luggages, especially in the States. I would feel pretty terrible if they cut my LV or Chanel luggage apart to examine inside :S

2. The so called "designer" luggages usually involve very little "design" by the designer. They usually just look like normal luggage plastered with monograms. Monograms are cheesy enough on handbags, the much larger surface area on monogrammed luggage only esculate the cheesiness and are not elegant at all.

3. Indeed, some of the luxury luggage do have better quality. Louis Vuitton started business as luggage artisan, it had been said hat the luggage that they produced survived the destruction of Titanic and was subsequently recovered. (Although now they are better known as an artisan of hideous looking hand bag then quality luggage) The quality of the leather on Chanel luggage is just irresistible. That being said, what is the point of using quality leather for luggage anyways? So that the luggage transportation workers can keep their skin nice and supple since they are handling luggage with soft buttery leather? Luggages are inevitably thrown around in traffic, as long as they provide enough protection so your belongings are safe, it is fine. Brands like samsonite and victoroix can do the job just fine, and I won't wince when they throw around my samsonite as opposed to a Chanel.

So my conclusion is, rather than paying $2000 for a luggage, I'd rather buy a high quality well designed bag with that money. That being said, I do agree some luggage are pretty well designed and looks nice. Like the luggage line that was born under Alexander McQueen's collaboration with Samsonite above, is innovative, edgy, and you can tell there's designing talent behind it! The skeleton shaped luggage is controversial, some find it a little freaky. Although I do find it a bit freaky, I still think the design is brilliant! I really like the shape of it. Seems like more and more designers are entering the luggage production market, but most of them did not show the kind of committment to design. Like the MICHAEL by Michael Kors below, is sold at 500+ at www.nordstorm.com and there is no way I'm purchasing that designless ugly monogrammed chunk.