The Best Luxury Luggage Brands

Luxury luggage occupies a strange category: it’s meant to be used, scuffed, checked, and dragged through airports, yet the best pieces are built — and priced — like heirlooms. The houses below represent genuinely different philosophies on what that means, from aluminum engineered like aircraft fuselage to hand-painted canvas that takes weeks to produce. Here’s what separates them — along with two contemporary brands worth knowing if a heritage price tag isn’t…