If a Transformers toy existed for grown ladies, it will be Parallelle’s Traveller collection of toiletry baggage.
Ribbed on the skin like Optimus Prime’s boots, the Traveller appears like a typical (albeit fashionable) make-up bag on the skin, however peer inside and also you’ll see a warren of different-sized pockets and loops and adjustable dividers. Unzip the bag all the best way round, fold the edges down, and voila—there are all of your journey toiletries, standing upright and totally so as, in a make-up organizer similar to you’d have at residence. Once you’re completed, flip the edges up, pull the zippers again to the highest, and it is again to being a journey bag, sturdy and safe sufficient to toss in a suitcase sideways and even the wrong way up.
Preserve It Contained
The Traveller is the brainchild of Annie Fan, a profession designer of private-label baggage for different manufacturers. She favored to take a SoulCycle spin class earlier than work, however discovered herself both forgetting her make-up and toiletries, being unable to seek out them in her bag, or having to put out all her objects on the communal counter. In 2022, she got down to design her personal bag: the last word journey cosmetics bag.
“After I began designing the Traveller, construction was key,” Fan says. “It wanted to operate like a transportable vainness—maintaining the whole lot seen, safe, and precisely the place you want it, with out the necessity to unpack.”
As for the design process, it was a matter of fixed fine-tuning. She in the end went by means of 60 prototypes to make sure she received the design exactly the best way she needed it. “Each element needed to be fastidiously thought of, from the flexibleness of the structure to how the whole lot stays organized and accessible,” Fan says.
At this time, there at the moment are 4 sizes of Traveller, all with the identical sturdy, vegan leather-based and water resistant cotton exterior. There’s the Small, with 9 pockets, two divided compartments, two mesh pouches, and 5 loops for brushes or different objects; Medium, with 16 pockets, three divided compartments, and 4 mesh pouches; and Giant, with 20 pockets, three divided compartments, and 6 new pouches. There’s additionally a brand new “Brush” model, which stands 9.6 inches tall and has 13 wall pockets for brushes and different toiletries, a zippered pouch, and a spacious “ground” for full-size merchandise.
{Photograph}: Kat Merck
Street Examined
I examined the Medium and Brush Travellers on a latest five-day household journey to each a resort and Airbnb in Louisiana, and I can verify each function a veritable clown automobile of skin-care merchandise and make-up. As soon as I arrived at my vacation spot, I positioned a Traveller on the toilet counter, unzipped and peeled the edges down like a banana, and there have been all my merchandise—totally seen, no worse for put on from being tossed round in my suitcase, and straightforward to seize and change. Regardless that I’ve examined extra than 20 toiletry baggage prior to now 12 months, I used to be nonetheless impressed.
{Photograph}: Kat Merck
