The World’s Most Stylish Stuff – This Week
Rimowa Electronic Tag Suitcase
If we’re going to spend up to £1,045 on a suitcase, we want it to fluff and pack our Speedos and spend the rest of the trip ferrying to and from the pool bar for us. Sadly, not even Rimowa’s most advanced models do that (yet), but they do show off a future without long lines and ugly paper tags. The German manufacturer has developed a case which uses an app, e-ink screen and syncs with airline systems to create and display an electronic baggage tag. Call it robo-case. Available at Rimowa, priced £600.
Bentley
It’s the ridiculously luxurious car millionaire fly fishermen have been calling out for. Finally. We’re not sure what took Bentley so long but the British firm has at last updated its Bentayga SUV, dubbed ‘the fastest SUV in the world’, to include a fishing station. Dreamt up by Bentley’s in-house custom shop, Mulliner, the car features four leather-trimmed rod holders, a burl walnut tackle box and a china set. Now that’s fly. The fly fishing kit is available as an add-on at Bentley, priced £76,035.
Freddie Grubb Fleet DB Silver Edition
The past decade has seen hundreds of thousands of ‘Mamils’ (middle-aged men in Lycra) take up the newly cool sport of cycling. An integral part of the boom has been new style-led wheels, like those turned out by Freddie Grubb. The independent bike manufacturer, named after British cycling maverick Frederick H. Grubb, has created an all-silver road bike to mark the record holder’s dual silver medal wins at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic games. Available at Freddie Grubb, priced £1,299.
Xbox One S
Microsoft’s smaller, slicker and sharper Xbox One S dropped into man-caves across the UK this weekend. Equipped with a new a striking ‘robot white’ colour, 2TB of internal storage and the holy grail of 4K Ultra HD playback, the tech giant’s flagship console has gone from boy’s toy to man’s machine Want to know what you should be playing it on? Check out Panasonic’s new 50-inch design-focused TV, for starters. Available at Microsoft, priced £349.99.
