Sleep over in style. The “Essential” necessity kit from Hermès is packed with all the clothing and accessories you’d require for an overnighter: a change of clothes and toiletries.

pic and info: Luxury Culture

The next time you visit some design shop hoping to add some aesthetic value to your crib consider ENO Studio’s faux gold brick doorstop. Arik Levy was commissioned to do the piece. Get a few of them. They probably look better stacked.

pic and info: Crib Candy

I can really appreciate the tongue-in-cheek tactful humour that the designers at Want have in the Québec sovereignty issue. You wonder if some get the hinted punchline. The bags are named after two great - yet contraversial, statesmen of their time. Both DeGaulle and Trudeau were francophone contemporaries. The former, was French President and a hardline conservative military man who had international French aspirations. The latter was a new generation liberal, that brought fashion and attitude to slumbering Canadian politics, he was also the father of the Canadian constitution. As fate had it, their collision became Québec. In 1967, DeGaulle on a state visit shouts from Montréal city hall’s balcony to the thousands below, with French fervor at the brim: “Vive le Québec libre!”. The next year, Trudeau ascends to the Prime Minister’s office and has to deal with the developing FLQ crisis, and the growing momentum of populist separatist sentiment within French Canada.

Back to the post: the bags are exquisitely masculin. The Trudeau comes in two sizes fitting 14″ and 17″ laptops. The DeGaulle is an upright, in only one size that fits a 14″ laptop. Both come in a wide range of shades: black, burnt henna, white, dark brown, grey and red leather. Also certified organic cotton. All made in Italy. Prices are in the range of $700-$1400. In the City Bags Collection there is the odd one out: the Kingsford camera bag. You’d figure it would be only in good taste that the additional piece should have been named after either British Trade Consul James Cross, or Québec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte. Ideas anyone?

After the jump: pics of the bags and a vid of Trudeau on the FLQ crisis.

Tennis anyone? Tiffany & Co.’s new addition to those gift ideas never seem to end is the .925 solid silver tennis ball can. The polished silver tin holds four tennis balls. Although it’s probably something you won’t casually take with you to the court for a few sets of leisure sporting. The hallmarked can can be engraved to commemorate that worthy opponent. It’s available at the Tiffany & Co. online store for $1500.

One more pic after the jump.

Zegna Couture’s shoes and belts for SS09 are exquisite. They’re all hand finished using the finest calfskin and alligator leathers with micro perforated detailing, some even have Goodyear High Performance construction. The collection styling varies from brogues to moccasins to lace-ups, colour palettes of several soft browns, oxblood to black. My fav’s the one above - the three tone brogued dandy.

More after the jump.

A selection of Louis Vuitton’s Stephen Sprouse accessories collection is now available online at eLuxury.

More after the jump.

Dunhill’s offering electronics in it’s SS/09 accessories collection. Manufactured by Meridian, the Alfred Dunhill AD88 is a music system that plays CDs, MP3s DVDs, has a tuner, alarm clock function, connects to your PC, and also doubles as an iPod docking station. It comes also with a magnetic remote. The ticket price is £2000. Also in the pic are the Union jack blue lamb nappa handstitched driving gloves.

More of the collection after the jump