Twenty weeks a year in a bag

Four continents, one carry-on and a rule that nothing in it may need ironing.

On the road

Client
Diplomat, Copenhagen and elsewhere
Kept
14
New
8
Out
47
Looks
33
Season
A full year

The constraint here was not taste, it was cabin baggage. Everything had to survive a folded night in an overhead locker and come out fit for a ministry.

We tested the list for a season before publishing it: eleven pieces, all wool or heavy cotton, all in three tones. Two of them were already hers and had been at the back of the wardrobe for four years.

Look 11
Rail 11
Eleven pieces, and the bag holds all of them
Detail 11
Empty hangers, the morning after a good edit