16 May 2023
RIMOWA is launching a 125-Year retrospective in Tokyo, and it includes the suitcases of Billie Eilish and Pharrell Williams
VOGUE
To celebrate its 125th birthday, the Cologne, Germany-based luggage brand Rimowa is launching a traveling exhibition that’s as much a timeline of its history as it is an object study in peripatetic curios.
Called “SEIT 1898” (“seit” is the German word for “since”), the expo features a modular series of dioramas, which spotlight everything from the company’s highly recognizable grooved aluminum cases–which were first introduced in 1950, paying homage to the cladding on a 1919-invented Junkers aircraft–to “Special Purpose” one-offs, like violin or wine carriers, to a wunderkammer of artist editions and collaborations (Supreme, Off-White, Palace Skateboards, Porsche, and Dior to name a few, many of which have happened since LVMH acquired Rimowa in 2016). SEIT 1898 opens in Tokyo’s Harajuku neighborhood on June 8, rolls to New York City in September, and concludes in Cologne in early 2024.