TUMI Fall/Winter 2016 Collection Debuts @ TUMI Store, The Gardens Mall

Since 1975, TUMI has been creating world-class business and travel essentials to ensure a comfortable journey for their customers. They recently reopened its store at The Garden Mall, Kuala Lumpur. The 1,639 sq.ft. space debuts TUMI’s new Madison Concept Store design created in 2013 by award winning designer and architect Dror Benshetrit for TUMI’s flagship at 610 Madison Avenue, New York City.

The new store concept is designed to highlight TUMI’s best-in-class products through the use of clean lines, light-coloured furnishings and custom-made shelves. New, angled display bays provide a 360° view of the bags which also ensures accessibility to customers. The store separates the men’s and women’s collections for easy navigation thus showing the wide assortment of sophisticated travel cases, women’s bags and business bags for both men and women easily. You can also head over to the monogramming stations to customise it on the spot.

Taking inspiration from The Land of the Rising Sun ,TUMI Fall/Winter 2016 Collection features a line up of luxury travel and lifestyle accessories. Designed to showcase the charming contrasts of heritage and contemporary, harmony – or the Japanese philosophy of wa – each piece is dipped into a rich colour palette rooted in nature.

The new travel bags are adorned in Contemplative Cool (featuring Japanese Kanji Brushstrokes), Nature’s Best Prints (featuring a mix of bold prints and rich jewel hues) and The Arts Of Craft (featuring origami and fringe animal key fobs).

In TUMI Men’s Fall/Winter 2016 Collection, you’ll see clean and contemporary aesthetic designed together with refined details. There’s the Landon-Power Move, Haydon- Stylish Upgrade, Alpha Bravo – Bold Expression, Alpha 2 – Refined Simplicity, Tahoe-Rugged Cool, Arrive -Luxe Leather, Astor-Urban Cool, CFX- Boardroom Sleek and V3 Ultra-light collection for the men to choose from.

Ladies, fret not for TUMI Women’s Fall/Winter 2016 Collection, it’s all about urban chic featuring sophisticated minimalist and modern styles designs from polished travel cases to chic days bags that brings the best in form and functionality. Choose from the various collection of Verona-City-Ready Chic, Mariella-Supremely Lux, Voyageur- Artistic Flair, Sinclair- Mod Glam, Noho- Sophisticaed Spin and Larkin – Utilitarian Cool to travel in comfort and style.

This year TUMI Fall/Winter 2016 Collection also features Premium Leather Collections for Him & Her as well as accessories as well. For the men check out the Landon-Power Move collection that offers the Alcott Backpack, Lowell Brief and Bradmoor Slim Brief in masculine colours and styles to suit the power player in you. While the ladies, look for the Mariella-Supremely Luxe collection that features the Eva Satchel, Mini Eva Crossbody and Tula Tote in a vision of luxury and style. Paired your bags with refined accessories from the assortments in Camden, Mason and Monaco featuring muted colour palette such as Merlot, Burnt Orange and Indigo.

TUMI is well known for its lightweight travel bag and for TUMI Fall/Winter 2016 Lightweight Collections , there’s three new collections known as the V3, Haydon and Verona. The V3 is the lightest luggage collection ever with a hardside case featuring stylish aesthetic, contoured design with technical superiority and functionality. Made with a triple-layer ABS polycarbonate material the cases feature a new contoured design that’s gorgeous and enhances the function as well. Paying homage to Japan, the collection has International Carry-On, Short Trip Packing Case and Extended Trip Packing Case in Waterfall stripe that’s a reminiscent of transparent watercolor paints on rice paper.

As for the Haydon – Stylish Upgrade For Him , the lightweight assortment feature durable fabric with pebbled leather trim and fitted with TUMI ID Lock™ to guard against identity theft. There’s the Elias Flap Backpack and Blackburn Duffel to select from. Last but not least, the ladies can splurge on the Verona-City Ready Chic For Her collection that has elements of glossy leather trim, leather tassel zipper pullers, plus leather handles and lots more. Opt for either the Quinn Satchel, Casey Crossbody or Korl Small Backpack for the ultimate sophisticated chic look.