Luggage usually gets ruined in transit. Airlines toss it around, baggage carousels chew up the corners, and every dent feels like damage.
For their new collection, RIMOWA and Maison Margiela decided that wear and tear is actually the whole point. Instead of treating scratches and ageing as flaws, the two houses built a travel set designed to change the more you use it.
RIMOWA has spent decades turning aluminium into a living record of movement, letting dents and scratches stack up like passport stamps. Margiela has walked a similar path since 1988, when the house first coated studio furniture in white paint just to watch it crack, peel, and shift under the weight of real life.
That shared obsession with lived experience now lives on the road. The new drop pairs RIMOWA’s iconic Classic Cabin suitcase with Margiela’s 5AC XL bag, both blanketed in the house’s signature Bianchetto hand-painted white finish. It is a coat designed to disintegrate. Every flight, every journey, and every scrape chips away at the white paint to reveal the metal and leather breathing underneath.
It drops on November 19, 2026, across select boutiques and online.
This is not luggage meant to stay pristine in a dust bag. It is built to look better the more life you put through it.
Credits
Photography & Direction: Dexter Lander
Courtesy of RIMOWA & Maison Margiela