Sentence examples for travel trunks from inspiring English sources
Louis Vuitton's "Time Capsule" exhibition gives new meaning to the term "trunk show". On Friday, the French fashion house — perhaps best known for its monogrammed travel trunks — opened its traveling brand retrospective at the Westfield Century City shopping center in Los Angeles.
And back through the half open door, the shadow of a man dressing furtively behind the travel trunks.
One of the most fascinating photographs on display in the museum shows Zelda, wearing dancer's garb, seated on her travel trunks in the sunporch of this very house.
The brand is most famous for its embossed leather travel trunks and accessories, but in recent years, under the design leadership of Fedor Georges Savchenko, formerly of Goyard, it has gained interest for its hand-sewn carryalls.
Instead it is dedicated to the upscale accessories from the famous LV bags through its travel trunks, fine and costume jewelry or scarves to luxurious gifts like picnic hampers and poker sets.
"There is always an inspiration of travel at Vuitton," said Yves Carcelle, the outgoing chief executive who has done so much over two decades to shape Vuitton from handbag and travel trunks to high fashion.
But there are not many ways to present the lightweight travel trunk, born of the 19th-century industrial revolution and a new era of travel.
Seeing the tap shoes Sammy Davis Jr. wore as a child or Pearl Bailey's travel trunk also gives us a sense of the physical life of these performers during the years when black culture was gradually merging into the American mainstream.
In other words, for all the sweet frivolity of a contemporary dress dangling from a transparent, articulated fiberglass mannequin or the charm of seeing the entire trousseau of a Victorian doll in the historic part of the exhibition — the brand's beating heart is always in a purse, bag or travel trunk.
The $175,000 price tag includes pretty much everything you need: gloves, a mat and--when your training regimen calls for roadwork--a travel trunk to pack it all in.
Why Napoleon ached to flee this sumptuous villa, with its enviable views, terraced garden and library, to once again live out of a travel trunk and trampoline-caliber camp bed (on display in the home) taxes the sensible mind to distraction.
