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Andy Warhol Grins In His Grave Over $2,500 Luggage Bearing His Name

Between this Globe Trotter Warhol-branded luggage set and the Flight 001 chichi rent-a-luggage we covered a few months ago, we're starting to think that manufacturers are just trying to bait us. Are people really dropping thousands of dollars for something they check through at the front of the airport, only to pick up hours later when they're bleary eyed and jet lagged? Here's the deal on these pricey, limited-edition bags:

In association with the week-long Andy Warhol x Hysteric Glamour pop-up shop at the ISETAN store in Tokyo’s Shinjuku precinct, a marquee item... with three different sizes, each feature an all-black exterior while the inside features a Warholian skull motif with signature. The Andy Warhol x Hysteric Glamour pop-up shop on the 4th floor of ISETAN runs from the 16th till the 23rd of September.

True story: we have a writer at Jaunted HQ whose very first non-airport experience in Japan was at the world's busiest train station in Shinjuku. During rush hour. Dragging all his international luggage. Because our writer is not very smart. That's a whole other story howeve, and this post is about Warholian skulls on the inside of overpriced luggage sets. Just how overpriced, you ask?

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The Ultimate Packing List for Costa Rica

All this week, Lost Girl Amanda Pressner will be bringing us reports from her recent trip to Costa Rica with her entire family. Any questions about traveling to Costa Rica or family-oriented activities to do while you're there? Let us know.

When I returned from my yearling round-the-world adventure with The Lost Girls back in 2007, I swore that I’d retire my trusty blue Snowgum backpack and only travel with a rolling suitcase from now on. Fast forward two years to July 2009, and you’ll see me digging around my aunt’s basement in upstate New York, trying to find the only bag I really trust to get me and my three weeks worth of clothing—across rives, through jungles and overnight buses in Costa Rica.

The first time that I had to traipse through two feet of seawater to board a boat that took me across the Gulf of Papagayo from one destination to the next, I realized that it would have been near impossible to accomplish the task with a big suitcase on wheels. Not getting rid of Big Blue was the best travel decisions I ever made (that and running away from an insane cab driver in Vietnam, but that’s another story).

While living out of a backpack for 12 months straight got pretty old on my last big trip, it did teach me one important life lesson—how to pack effectively (if not exactly lightly). Some may look at the list below and think “holy crap, girl…that’s way too much stuff!” but I truly did utilize each and everything below at least once, and usually many times during my recent Costa Rica trip.

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Would You Rent Expensive Luggage Just to Impress Other Travelers?

We understand that people sometimes need to rent expensive clothing for a night. You're at an event with people that you want or need to impress so you enhance your plummage accordingly. Fine. We might bemoan our inegalitarian culture, where society's velvet rope is lowered only to those who can turn heads, but whatever. People have wanted to look good for other people since the dawn of time.

Which brings us to this afternoon's edition of But Really? Today's topic: Flight 001's new rent to rent chichi luggage program:

If a pricy set of name-brand luggage is beyond your budget but you still want to travel with the crème de la crème, check out "Baggage Claim for Hire," debuting this spring at New York travel outfitter Flight 001. By the day or week, the store will rent cool wheeled luggage made of lightweight polycarbonates by the German company Rimowa. Bear in mind that a medium-sized Rimowa suitcase — like topaz gold — retails for around $500. So you can turn heads at the airport without breaking the bank.

Is this a trend? Are people really trying to turn heads at airports? With their luggage?

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