Parallelle Traveler Review: Unparalleled Attention to Detail Leave a comment

If a Transformers toy existed for grown ladies, it could be Parallelle’s Traveller collection of toiletry baggage.

Ribbed on the skin like Optimus Prime’s boots, the Traveller seems to be like a typical (albeit trendy) make-up bag on the skin, however peer inside and also you’ll see a warren of different-sized pockets and loops and adjustable dividers. Unzip the bag all the way in which round, fold the perimeters down, and voila—there are all of your journey toiletries, standing upright and totally so as, in a make-up organizer identical to you’d have at residence. While you’re performed, flip the perimeters up, pull the zippers again to the highest, and it is again to being a journey bag, sturdy and safe sufficient to toss in a suitcase sideways and even the wrong way up.

Maintain It Contained

The Traveller is the brainchild of Annie Fan, a profession designer of private-label baggage for different manufacturers. She preferred to take a SoulCycle spin class earlier than work, however discovered herself both forgetting her make-up and toiletries, being unable to seek out them in her bag, or having to put out all her objects on the communal counter. In 2022, she got down to design her personal bag: the last word journey cosmetics bag.

“Once I began designing the Traveller, construction was key,” Fan says. “It wanted to operate like a conveyable vainness—retaining all the pieces seen, safe, and precisely the place you want it, with out the necessity to unpack.”

As for the design process, it was a matter of fixed fine-tuning. She in the end went by means of 60 prototypes to make sure she obtained the design exactly the way in which she wished it. “Each element needed to be fastidiously thought of, from the flexibleness of the format to how all the pieces stays organized and accessible,” Fan says.

Right this moment, there are actually 4 sizes of Traveller, all with the identical sturdy, vegan leather-based and waterproof cotton exterior. There’s the Small, with 9 pockets, two divided compartments, two mesh pouches, and 5 loops for brushes or different objects; Medium, with 16 pockets, three divided compartments, and 4 mesh pouches; and Giant, with 20 pockets, three divided compartments, and 6 new pouches. There’s additionally a brand new “Brush” version, which stands 9.6 inches tall and has 13 wall pockets for brushes and different toiletries, a zippered pouch, and a spacious “flooring” for full-size merchandise.

Street Examined

I examined the Medium and Brush Travellers on a current five-day household journey to each a resort and Airbnb in Louisiana, and I can verify each function a veritable clown automotive of skin-care merchandise and make-up. As soon as I arrived at my vacation spot, I positioned a Traveller on the toilet counter, unzipped and peeled the perimeters down like a banana, and there have been all my merchandise—totally seen, no worse for put on from being tossed round in my suitcase, and straightforward to seize and exchange. Despite the fact that I’ve examined extra than 20 toiletry baggage prior to now yr, I used to be nonetheless impressed.

{Photograph}: Kat Merck