The passion for travel bags ignites the bourgeois classes in the industrial era, the train and the automobile having facilitated escapes to the coasts and initiated the transition from the Grand Tour, a tradition reserved for young male aristocrats, to tourism . The starting point of a new odyssey, packing your bag is the first stage of the journey, from the transition to holidays and vacations, to the inversion of priorities which presides over the sorting of things that you take away or that we leave behind.
The XXL, so-called weekend bag, takes on a material and symbolic weight. We put objects there that say who we are and connect us like invisible threads to the world we come from. A toiletry kit, adapted clothes, files or notes to complete, a whole kit that once decorrelated from its context will quickly lose its meaning.
Beyond the futile and the essential, the travel bag carries with it multiple dimensions of existence.
It also, and above all, places hopes, feelings (contained in certain objects), wishes and avenues for the future. A photo, a fetish, a book that we would like to be entertaining enough to finish and strong enough to come out of it reoriented, a notebook to start noting down what usually evaporates and never expresses itself, an idea in germ, a desire in progress, a project in places initiated.
Beyond the futile and the essential, the travel bag therefore carries with it multiple dimensions of existence, pasts that have not happened and dreamed futures that everyday life tends to cast aside.
Baggage is also the pride of luxury houses, with what their history often began, the first medium through which their logo or monogram imposed itself on the sight and codes of a society. Ensuring transport in all its forms, it is also an object of transmission, which promotes its consistency in clean lines and warm, deep colors, these so-called natural hues, reluctant to ephemeral fashions.
Along the arm, in the crook of the elbow, on the shoulder or across the body, it is worn snuggled up against you. Because, in the midst of the effects intended to preserve appearances, we also take with us what we cherish the most. Even if we don’t go very far.
