Louis Vuitton Horizon Clouds Monogram 55 Blue Clouds Suitcase

This is the Louis Vuitton Horizon 55 suitcase in Monogram Clouds, a hard-sided rolling cabin case in the blue cloud-motif canvas from Virgil Abloh's 2020 menswear work. It's for a traveler who wants carry-on luggage that reads as a collected object rather than another dark spinner coming off the belt.

The Horizon 55 is built from coated canvas with leather trim and silver-tone hardware, with a fabric-lined interior, four spinner wheels and a telescopic handle, and it's made in France. At 55cm it's the cabin size, sized for overhead bins on most carriers, so it's a weekend and short-haul case rather than a checked trunk. Hard-sided construction protects what's inside better than a soft duffle, at the cost of some packing give.

What separates it from a standard Horizon is the canvas. Monogram Clouds was tied to one period of Abloh's work for the house — clouds worked over the Monogram in blue — while the plain Monogram and Eclipse versions of the Horizon have stayed in production. One unit in stock.