ROAD TRIPS

With automobiles came both long crosscontinental expeditions and new lifestyles of leisurely drives. Louis Vuitton made car trunks that could be strapped to the top, side or back of cars. Among the famous trunks displayed in was a special photographer’s trunk that once belonged to Albert Kahn, a French banker and philanthropist who in the 1900s attempted to photographically document the world in the project, His distinct red trunk bears three “X” marks that fans of Nicolas Ghesquière’s Petite Malle might recognise and have wondered about. Now you know their origins.