Looks like it’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s for Rimowa this fall. The Cologne-based luxurious baggage manufacture’s newest collaboration sees them flying throughout the Atlantic to New York for a particular three-piece sequence in Tiffany blue. The particular sequence is immediately recognisable as Tiffany & Co. even with out the model brand accompanying Rimowa’s because the pairing of Rimowa’s signature aluminium and Tiffany & Co.’s home color of Robin Egg Blue is paying homage to choose items from the jeweller in addition to different notable collaborations, e.g. the famed Tiffany Blue Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711, the final of its household to be produced.
First appears to be like courtesy of the 2 homes are glossy, enjoyable and thrilling. Aside from the excellent Tiffany blue featured on the leather-based and felt interiors, handles, baggage tag and wheels, the aluminium-brushed our bodies additionally comes with a particular “Rock Lower” design mimicking the floor of a diamond — a nod from one luxurious home to a different. The trio incorporates a single cabin suitcase and a vanity-cum-jewellery case each in aluminium and a smaller polycarbonate jewelry case decked out in full Tiffany blue.
Seasoned Collaborators
The collaboration is however one in every of many for the Manhattan jeweller who has run the gamut in luxurious partnerships, their portfolio starting from restricted artwork items with American modern artist Daniel Arsham to one-of-one particular designs just like the diamond-titanium “Crown of Thorns” made specifically for main hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar’s performances. Rimowa themselves are not any stranger to collaborations, having finished their justifiable share throughout the years with notable companions like Moncler and Porsche to call a couple of.
Extra modern, avant-garde collaborations for the home have positively picked up since its 2016 acquistion by LVMH, little doubt half of a bigger push from the luxurious vogue conglomerate in the direction of a mass market viewers. In that vein, a Rimowa x Tiffany & Co. collaboration will need to have been ready in drafts, contemplating that LVMH additionally purchased over the jeweller simply in 2021. Second-generation Arnault govt, Alexandre Arnault, has been quoted professing that each manufacturers are “extremely private” to him, the collaboration one that he’s “thrilled to debut”.
A Significant Design?
Rimowa particularly designing jewelry instances for a collaboration with Tiffany & Co. could seem solely acceptable, however the underlying affect of the collaboration’s design decisions should be learn between the traces. The jewelry instances can absolutely be used for different small objects, however there’s simply one thing so deeply opulent about reserving cabin area for one’s jewelry — an aspirational form of luxurious that the collaboration has managed to so finely contact on.
Casting aluminium within the likeness of diamonds is yet one more layered design alternative, contemplating Rimowa’s historical past of utilizing aluminium for his or her luggages going again to the Nineteen Thirties when a manufacturing facility fireplace ruined most of their merchandise, leaving solely the aluminium for use. The “Rock Lower” design is therefore a two-fold metaphor, alluding to each the partnership with a storied jeweller in addition to Rimowa’s promise of luxurious luggages constructed to final.
It’s maybe therein that lies the success of such luxurious collaborations. A significant collaboration should succeed not solely within the worth of what it could actually do, but additionally within the affect of what it desires to say. The Rimowa x Tiffany & Co. collaboration is ready to launch later this month in choose Rimowa shops globally and on-line, 26 September. The Rock Lower Cabin will retail for S$4,870, the Jewelry Case for S$6,550 and the Jewelry Private for S$3,020.
All images courtesy of Rimowa.
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