The Best Luggage for Travel 2021 — Stylish and Durable Suitcase Brands

Need a trendy lil bag to match your wardrobe? Calpak is the move. The L.A.-based brand offers hardshell bags in chic designs, including rose gold, marble, and terrazzo. Perfect for the ’gram.

This French brand is super beloved among stylish travelers who are obsessed with the included chargers, TSA-approved locks, and zippered compartments. (Seriously, there are like a million in each bag).

At super-affordable prices—$120 for two pieces!—U.S. Traveler makes simple yet sleek luggage with a few delightful extras: Those top and side handles help distribute weight within your bag, and interior straps keep your goodies in place.

If you feel like traveling back in time while also jetting around the world, this retro set was made for you. The cute vintage design hides tons of modern features, like spinner wheels, zipper pockets, and elastic shoe holders. Plus, it comes in a variety of cute colors. 

AmazonBasics has your back with a spinner suitcase in a funky color. The bag also features tons of zipper pockets. It’s a solid basic.

BÉIS luggage is a triple threat: durable, practical, and chic. The internal zipper pockets ensures your conditioner won’t get on your clothes, and the bag is huuuuge, making it a great pick for your next long trip.

Made Leather Company founder Lenise Williams makes sure to ethically source all her leather from Marrakech, Morocco, resulting in fine leather goods that you can feel great about.

One Cosmo editor brought her fancy-ass Rimowa bag on a trip to Paris and has been obsessed with its super smooth wheels, weirdly spacious “flex-divider system,” and the priceless knowledge that she looks like a baller—even when running for the gate before those boarding doors close. 

The hip backpack company makes more than just schoolbags. They also offer cute yet durable duffel bags and solid suitcases at not-too-bad price points.

Grab a piece of Bric’s luggage if you wanna feel fancy as hell with leather accents and special touches like garment rings and zippered dividers. Pick out a backpack as an affordable first piece, or go ham on one of the pricier spinners.

Seattle-based Skyway makes super-durable bags that offer 5-year warranties. Their sporty design (360-degree spinners!) ensures you’ll never drag that bad boy through the airport—it basically pushes itself. And it’s also sold at big-bulk heaven, Costco.

Real adventurers know that Patagonia makes bags ideal for weekends spent glamping, hiking, or beaching, thanks to the weather-resistant materials. And the lifetime warranty means they’ll even help you with repairs if you end up free solo-ing with it across your back or whatever. 

Not only does this geometric gemstone suitcase look unusual and bold, it has a tough outer shell and dual spinner wheels so you can spin it around 360 degrees. 

Ever-present on your Instagram feed, Away was one of the very first direct-to-consumer luggage brands and is still wildly popular thanks to its 100-day free trial, lifetime warranties, and ejectable chargers. Plus, cuuuuute colors.