Every RIMOWA collabs A decade of collabs, between luxury and streetwear

Over the past decade, Rimowa has worked in at least twenty-two different collaborations between major artists and international fashion brands. The brand, however, was not born recently. In fact, it is older than any other brand it has ever collaborated with. It was born in 1898, in Cologne, founded by Paul Morszeck and Heinrich Gotz. After two years, only Paul remained at the helm of the luggage factory and thirty years later his son Richard changed the name of the company, until then Gortz & Morszeck, in today's Rimowa, an acronym for Richard Morszeck Warenzeichen.

The brand is famous for its aluminum suitcases, but this distinctive mark was the result of chance. In the 1930s, a fire destroyed the factory, charring all the materials inside the warehouses. Only aluminum withstood the flames and the then owner, Richard, was forced to use it to craft the suitcases. In 1937 the first metal suitcases were marketed, while in the 1950s parallel grooves along the surface were introduced, originally created to make the structure more stable and inspired by the aircrafts of the time, finally becoming an integral part identity.

For the SS20 collection directed by Kim Jones, RIMOWA created a three-size trolley set and Personal Case metal bags with leather straps for Dior. All the trolleys were decorated with the Dior Oblique motif and were featured in three colorways: chrome, black and with a gradient of blue. The Personal Case bags, on the other hand, did not feature all-over decoration and had two extra colorways: blue and pink.