She was gloriously stylish: traveling as a reporter to Hanoi in 1968, she brought eight suitcases and a collection of exquisite lingerie.
"When I was pregnant last fall I went around to the stores with a big suitcase to show my first collection," she recalled.
Nevertheless, Benshetrit pushed the boundaries of what a suitcase can be, with a collection of chic, multifunctional bags: totes that become backpacks, reversible briefcases, expandable satchels and a hard-shell carry-on that, with two pulls of a hinge, doubles in size.
In September 2012, the release of the box set, which was scheduled on the same day as the Blu-ray release of The Avengers, was delayed until April 2, 2013, due to a pending lawsuit over the suitcase used to package the collection.
However in September 2012, the release of the box set, which was scheduled on the same day as the Blu-ray Disc release of The Avengers, was delayed until April 2, 2013, due to a pending lawsuit over the suitcase used to package the collection.
However in September 2012, the release of the box set, which was scheduled on the same day as the Blu-ray release of The Avengers, was delayed until April 2, 2013, due to a pending law suit over the suitcase used to package the collection.
The room is a cave of carefully chosen curiosities, from the curved brass bar to the collection of vintage suitcases to the terrariums dangling in the bathrooms.
Some join organised teams, each person taking back a suitcase-full of goods for collection by middlemen on the other side.
In a grand, beautiful house on the Herengracht, the Museum of Bags and Purses is an indulgent private collection of bags, pouches, suitcases and purses from the past 500 years.
The new collection contains a poem, Suitcases and Muddy Parks, that dramatises a fault-finding mother ("There you go again" its refrain).
