Before running through your mental shopping list of bags, books, and toiletries, you need luggage. With the smart designs and straightforward quality of brands like Gravis, Sansomite, Tumi, Rimowa, Mandarina Duck, and Flight 001's own line, you'll forget those distant days of actually lugging luggage instead of strolling it with style. Besides that the suitcases, garment bags, totes, laptop cases, and messenger bags just plain look good, they're made with ingenuity, hip practicality, and performance wear materials, like Freitag's size-adjustable bags that are made of recycled tarps and seat belts. Besides luggage, every kind of carrying case is available here, to hold documents, toiletries, passports, and CDs. The Pantome line bursts through the normally neutral-toned world of travel with flourescent colored photobooks, date books, CD holders, and bags.

- Review by Amanda Scotese