If a Transformers toy existed for grown ladies, it could be Parallelle’s Traveller sequence of toiletry bags.
Ribbed on the surface like Optimus Prime’s boots, the Traveller appears like a typical (albeit trendy) make-up bag on the surface, however peer inside and also you’ll see a warren of different-sized pockets and loops and adjustable dividers. Unzip the bag all the way in which round, fold the perimeters 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. If you’re achieved, flip the perimeters 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.
Maintain It Contained
The Traveller is the brainchild of Annie Fan, a profession designer of private-label luggage for different manufacturers. She appreciated 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 gadgets 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 conveyable self-importance—protecting every thing 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 way of 60 prototypes to make sure she acquired the design exactly the way in which she needed it. “Each element needed to be rigorously thought-about, from the pliability of the structure to how every thing stays organized and accessible,” Fan says.
Right this moment, there are actually 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 gadgets; Medium, with 16 pockets, three divided compartments, and 4 mesh pouches; and Massive, with 20 pockets, three divided compartments, and 6 new pouches. There’s additionally a brand new “Brush” version, which stands 9.6 inches tall and has 13 wall pockets for brushes and different toiletries, a zippered pouch, and a spacious “flooring” for full-size merchandise.
{Photograph}: Kat Merck
Highway Examined
I examined the Medium and Brush Travellers on a latest five-day household journey to each a lodge and Airbnb in Louisiana, and I can verify each function a veritable clown automotive 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 perimeters 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 simple to seize and substitute. Though I’ve examined extra than 20 toiletry bags prior to now 12 months, I used to be nonetheless impressed.
{Photograph}: Kat Merck
