Bric's X-Bag Capri 25" Spinner

I'm pretty excited for tomorrow!

I was looking around online and saw a Bric's X-Bag being sold for such a good price. According to the seller it had been used once. The color is pretty unique, though, from the available designs in the shop. The tuscan leather used in the current X-Bag lines is brown, the color of the leather used in this particular model is somewhat beige.

I did research on it, and I was able to find an X-Bag model that looked similar to it:

pictures borrowed from Polyvore

This is the X-Bag Capri series. Other models in its line up are the following:

Quite an interesting color-combination, if you ask me. 

We're supposed to go to New Manila tomorrow to inspect it, and hopefully purchase it. Will give you more details soon as I get home tomorrow. 

Rimowa Salsa Sports Trunk 32" Multiwheel

Mommy, Bianca, and I went to Rockwell yesterday. We were just going to go window-shopping, since there wasn't anything better to do on a stormy Sunday. 

We ended up going into the Rimowa store in Rockwell where I had a stark realization - that I might have purchased the wrong luggage!

I really wanted a Rimowa, but the PhP 60,000.00 price range quoted to me when I visited Rimowa in Greenbelt turned me off. Apparently, I asked about the wrong product. That price tag is for the aluminum Rimowas. I wanted a polycarbonate Rimowa which was about half the cost of that. 

I couldn't dwell too much on it, especially since my Bric's Bellagio was a gift from Kim, and we got a really good bargain for it. 

So I considered buying a Rimowa carry-on in blue to match my navy blue Bellagio. Mommy and Bianca wouldn't hear of it. The designs of the two luggage were on polar ends of the spectrum. 

On the one hand, I adore the vintage steamer trunk look of the Bellagio, which gives it a charming old world vibe, and on the other, the minimalist industrial of Rimowa is also quite timeless. 

I decided I would still match my Bric's Bellagio with the 2nd generation hand carry business case:

borrowed from bricstore.com

But that I would buy another set of luggage. I was looking at the Rimowa Salsa Sports Trunk 32" Multiwheel, and I love its shape. I so want one. 

borrowed from the bestthings.com

Another thing I realized last Sunday - Bric's prices are more expensive than Rimowa. 

They're both beautiful in their own right, and if you're having difficulties deciding between two things, then why not get them both?

Bric's Bellagio Ultra-Light Spinner

After our Hong Kong trip, we figured it was time to update our luggage. You might think that luggage is not important, that you can basically get one of those run of the mill suitcases in the department store, and nobody would care. Well, you're wrong.

Your choice in luggage says a lot about you. It was a lesson we learned in a rather odd way.

During our Hong Kong trip, we brought an XL Samsonite soft-case luggage, an XL Echolac polycarbonate luggage, a Bric's carry-on, and a locally manufactured carry on. While going around Hong Kong, we brought along the carry-on with no name. The locals in the MTR were looking at us from head to toe after they realized that our carry-on was insignificant. These locals, by the way, were bringing around Rimowa carry-ons in the MTR! They weren't even going to the airport, they were going to work! I wanted to tell them, "Don't look at us like that, you guys are commuters! We don't even ride the MRT in the Philippines." Alas, it remained in my thought balloon.

Mommy and I vowed this incident was never ever going to happen again, and so our quest for the perfect luggage started.

Naturally, our first option was Rimowa. After all, the commuting snobs of Hong Kong all seemed to approve of the brand. I noticed also that in the international airport in Manila, there were a lot of Filipinos pushing around their Rimowa luggage.

After further research, and several visits to the Rimowa store in Greenbelt, apparently, there are fake Rimowas. Can you imagine spending PhP 60,000.00 on luggage, and people thinking that you're Rimowa probably cost only PhP 12,000.00. A word of caution, best to buy only from the store.

In hindsight, I realized that some of the Filipinos in the airport lugging Rimowa might have been using fake ones.

We almost resorted to, sigh, buying either a polycarbonate Delsey or Samsonite, much to Bianca's delight because Delsey had a pink series.

Good thing I stumbled into Bric's store in SM Aura - during a weekend sale to boot.

Now, we're no strangers to Bric's. In fact, one of our purchases from Duty Free in Manila was a Bric's tote for Mommy. Throw in Jessica Alba and Amal Clooney being spotted rolling Bric's luggage out from the airport, and we were sold.

Mommy was the first to  purchase the luggage. She bought an XL Bric's Bellagio in olive.

borrowed from bricstore.com

I didn't immediately buy one because I was having difficulty choosing between getting a polycarbonate Bellagio or an XL Bric's Life Camo. The Life series is a combination of leather coated in PVC, so it gives a soft case feel to the luggage, but with the water resistance of a polycarbonate shell. 

borrowed from lyst.com

Kim on the other hand offered to buy the luggage for me as a birthday/Christmas/anniversary gift.

This evening, we went to the Bric's store in SM Aura so Kim can see the options. He preferred the Bellagio because of the polycarbonate shell, and even the staff at Bric's recommended that I get that model instead. 

Since Mommy and I cannot travel with the same colored bag, I ended up getting the XL Bric's Bellagio in navy.

borrowed from neimanmarcus.com

Blue Bellagio it is!

Our next trip is to Seoul-Pohang-Busan in March 2017. I'm excited!