Why this new bag means never having your things disordered (or sea-soaked) again.

In most of your life, you're probably pretty organized. (Working on a $1.2 billion merger with paper strewn willy-nilly around your office tends to make people nervous.) But when it comes to packing for a road trip, well, sometimes your inner college student comes out -- you mash your suits and shirts together in the same compartment, zip the whole thing up and simply hope things won't come out too jumbled on the other end.

In partnership with German Frers, a naval architecture and engineering firm known for designing sleek and efficient racing yachts, Valextra has crafted an elegant bag that falls apart on you -- intentionally. Unzip the Valextra–German Frers Trunk and, instead of a typical bag interior (one big space with a few buckled straps, basically a mess waiting to happen), you'll find a stack of nine removable pouches in various shapes and sizes, the better to save you from your occasionally disheveled self.

The Frers people conceived of this bag, made of technical waterproof material, as the ideal sailing companion. But while these compartments indeed allow you to keep your brine-spattered poncho safely away from the black socks for tomorrow's meeting, the trunk is also a lifeline in less action-oriented travel circumstances. The longest pouch will fit a light suit or a pair of trousers, and the two slightly smaller ones will take your shirts, leaving the four rectangular and two long/slim numbers for whatever underwear, toiletries and work-related gear you deem necessary.

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