LV ICONS - Keepall
>> Tuesday, November 4
Le Bourget Airport, Paris, March 1946
She had arrived well in advance of the scheduled boarding time. Waiting in a cozy lounge, she soon made the acquaintance of the other passengers with whom she would share the next twenty-four hours flying to New York. She had heard much about the extraordinary comfort of the airline's new Constellation planes, yet nevertheless felt a certain apprehension she found difficult to conceal. Her paper was counting on her to provide a wholly neutral account, however. It had been arranged that at each stopover -- Shannon in Ireland, Reykjavik in Iceland, and Gander in Newfoundland -- she would phone through to give her impressions, which would be published without delay in the following edition. The airline had politely but firmly informed her that she could bring on board only what was absolutely necessary, as space was limited. Her suitcases would be traveling in the hold. Luckily, she had remembered spying a charming canvas bag in a window of the Champs-Elysees store. It was roomy enough for her to pack her nightdress, a change of clothes and her toilet bag. Plus a book, which would be welcome after all the subjects of conversation with
her traveling companions had been exhausted. A Keepall -- the name said it all.
The Keepall is the quintessence of Louis Vuitton. It first appeared in the 1930s, in a canvas version designed as an additional item of luggage that travelers could fold at the bottom of their trunks. The latest version of this most elegant of soft bags is -- most appropriately -- in Nomade leather.
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