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Brûlé Brief Bags it

With the World Cup on our minds, we almost forgot to say some snappy things about Tyler Brûlé's FT column this past weekend.

Tyler is focused on the perfect carry-on bag. Of course, he designed his own at first, working with "factories in Florence and Naples", but he wasn't satisfied with the end result. If only we had a nickel for every time our attempts at luggage design didn't pan out.

We can't think of a good response to this particular issue, as it's approximately three million miles away from our own travel obsessions. We recently snagged an Outdoor Products duffel bag, and it works fine. It appears that Tyler would agree with our approach, as his current bag of choice is a duffel bag that's only available in Japan.

We've said this before, but we think Tyler should return to doing what he does blisteringly well, which is giving us a sense of which destinations, newspapers, television shows, and architecture firms are worth googling, not to mention issuing forth fantasy urban planning directives. In the future, we hope he leaves the quotidian luggage concerns to someone else.

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