Picked up once, the Trunk explains why the line has been kept in production this long: the trunk-derived hard case that descends directly from Vuitton's nineteenth-century steamer trunks. It is finished in Monogram Eclipse - Vuitton's black-and-grey reading of the house monogram, reserved for the men's line, the material reading as much of the house's authorship as the silhouette. With a 6.5 by 10 by 2.5 inch format, the piece carries with everyday confidence rather than scale for scale's sake. Early versions of the line are tracked closely by collectors, and reissues of this calibre tend to be quietly absorbed by the same audience. Every Vuitton trunk still finishes at the family atelier in Asnieres, where the house has worked since 1859. Offered through Maison de Beaubigonne, where the house quietly favours the pieces that outlast the season.

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