Rimowa just shrunk its iconic aluminum suitcase into a chic handbag

The German luggage maker took three years to engineer the new bag in its Cologne factory.

In the 1920s, the German luggage maker Rimowa built an aluminum trunk. Over the next decades, the company’s engineers and designers would iterate on its design to create Rimowa’s now iconic product, a wheeled suitcase with grooves, that you will find at airports all over the world.