10 Suitcases Only Old Money Travels With (And Why It's Never Rimowa)

10 Suitcases Only Old Money Travels With (And Why It's Never Rimowa) Rimowa costs $1,430 for an aluminium cabin case — and in 2016 LVMH, the owner of Louis Vuitton, bought 80% of it for €640 million. That same year, Samsonite absorbed Tumi for $1.8 billion. In twelve months, both remaining independent high-end luggage houses stopped being independent. The families with genuinely inherited money never switched. This is the countdown of the ten luggage houses old money actually travels with, and why not one of them is Rimowa. From Hartmann — the 1877 American house Samsonite bought for just $35 million — through Mark Cross, Valextra, T. Anthony, Swaine, Asprey, Moynat, Globe-Trotter and Goyard, to a Modena workshop at number one that you cannot buy from at all. You can only order its luggage with the car it was measured for. Along the way: the case a one-tonne elephant stood on in 1912, the trunks the Queen took on her honeymoon, the overnight case Hitchcock commissioned for Grace Kelly, and the house that has refused to advertise for 170 years and still sells everything it makes. Which one surprised you? Tell us below. #OldMoney #QuietLuxury #Rimowa #LuxuryLuggage #Goyard #GlobeTrotter #OldMoneyStyle #MensStyle #LuxuryTravel #Schedoni #Moynat #HeritageBrands 1. LVMH — RIMOWA joins the LVMH Group (official announcement, €640m for 80%) https://www.lvmh.com/en/publications/rimowa-global-leader-of-high-quality-luggage-joins-the-lvmh-group 2. CNBC/Reuters — LVMH buys 80 p