Vogue Nippon's Anna Dello Russo on How to Pack a Suitcase

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Vogue Nippon editor Anna Dello Russo has been collecting couture for 20 years and does not believe in repeating outfits, even while darting from one Fashion Week to another. She brought two suitcases to New York, and The Cut stopped by her hotel room to film her packing and find out how exactly she gets all those clothes into two suitcases.

She packs with a geometric precision, folding a hot pink Marc Jacobs coat like an envelope. Jewelry and furs go in the smaller suitcase and taken as a carry-on, though when The Cut's Amy Odell asked if she's ever had a disaster, Dello Russo exclaimed: "Mama mia, no. Can you imagine? They lost the luggage, they lost my life." Finally, and perhaps most surprising, is what she wears on the plane: Abercrombie sweat pants.
· Video: Packing Couture With Anna Dello Russo [The Cut]