Turkish Airlines offers a great business class experience, with the soft product being particularly good. Along those lines, there’s a noteworthy update, as the airline has just introduced new amenity kits.
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Turkish Airlines’ five Lanvin amenity kits
Turkish Airlines has a new amenity kit collection, designed in collaboration with French luxury fashion house Lanvin. There are five different bags, so that passengers can collect different ones over time.
The various bags are inspired by Lanvin’s most iconic designs, and are crafted to be reusable and versatile. The bags feature limited edition Lanvin cosmetic products, including hand & body lotion, as well as lip balm.
The collection offers bags in brown, black, tan, and cream, which are available on flights of at least eight hours. Furthermore, a wallet-style black and brown bag is provided on flights between five and eight hours.
Turkish Airlines also highlights how the kits are created with sustainability in mind, with the eye mask and socks made from recycled materials, the earplugs packaged in paper to minimize single-use plastics, and the toothbrush crafted from bamboo.
Below you can find a video and some pictures of the new Lanvin amenity kit collection.
Is this an improvement over the old amenity kit?
Personally I’m not a brand obsessed person, but I appreciate when airlines have collaborations with luxury brands:
- For one, it’s a mutually beneficial arrangement, as it’s a way to put a high-end brand in front of a pretty affluent customer base
- When an airline collaborates with luxury brands, it’s generally a reflection of the company’s overall market position, and reflects how much it cares about offering a good experience
As I said above, I’m not a fashionista, but I basically live with the ChatGPT of fashion. So I asked Ford “where exactly does Lanvin rank nowadays?” His response was “they’re expensive, but they haven’t been cool for about 10 years.” So make of that what you will.
Anyway, during the last Turkish Airlines long haul flight I took, I received a very nice Salvatore Ferragamo amenity kit. So I’m not necessarily sure the change to Lanvin is an upgrade, but at least it’s something new, and I like the variety that it provides.
Bottom line
Turkish Airlines has rolled out new Lanvin amenity kits. There are five different kits, so that travelers can collect different ones over time. The kits are available on flights of over eight hours, and then there’s a smaller kit on flights of five to eight hours.
It’s always cool to see a new collaboration, so I’m looking forward to getting one of these kits on my next Turkish Airlines flight.
What do you make of Turkish Airlines’ new Lanvin amenity kits?
I think Turkish could probably champion a homegrown designer or at least someone with Turkish background like Erdem. Never a fan of countries buying in stuff like this for their national airlines, it's why I appreciated the Amouage amenity kits that Oman Air give now, as they're distinctly Omani luxury brand.
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Bossman dlow allegedly bought a pair of shoes for $1250 from Lanvin. I bought a pair of shoes for $12.50 from Payless.
The pink Ferragamo kit was very cute. Could double as a clutch.
I fail to understand why Turkish bothers with name brand amenity kits in Economy though, this year they have Mandarina Duck kits for long haul out of IST, previously they had Institut Karite and Chopard, but the contents are literally the same cheap polyster materials they have had for years. I still appreciate the contents but the name brands seem purely a gimmick to trick economy class customers.
IME, TK has always offered both a mens and a ladies version of their amenity kits. They're generally quite nice (my last couple were from Salvatore Ferragamo and Versace), but my wife always wants mine, saying she prefers the mens' variant (or maybe she just wants two of them, which is how it typically works out). Our next TK longhaul business class flights are next summer. Are the new amenity kits still offered in two (purportedly gender-specific) variants?
On my most recent TK flight (last week) both my wife and I received the same amenity kit: red Ferragamo. Very nice, and bigger than the blue Ferragamo kit from out last trip.
I don't fly anywhere near the frequency that Ben does, and unlike Ben a lot of my travel is in coach, but even I am at a point now where I would leave most of these on board.
They are all pretty similar. I will often use the socks and toothbrush, and eye mask on night flights. I have never used those cosmetics because I don't see much point, but I guess that's personal...
I don't fly anywhere near the frequency that Ben does, and unlike Ben a lot of my travel is in coach, but even I am at a point now where I would leave most of these on board.
They are all pretty similar. I will often use the socks and toothbrush, and eye mask on night flights. I have never used those cosmetics because I don't see much point, but I guess that's personal preference I guess.
I just don't know what you do with all the actual bags. They are not big, but once you have 20 or so, it starts taking quite a bit of space. Does one collect them? Are they good for anything other than carrying cables and medication? Do you donate them? Wrap Xmas presents with them?
I mean - I am not suggesting here that airlines should stop handing them. They ar very cute the first few times, but after a while, most of the ones I got just stayed on the plane.
Nice to know. If they had lousy kits, I am not sure you should write about it or you may feel that you cannot fly through Turkey anymore, like Cairo
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"I basically live with the ChatGPT of fashion". Awesome and funny at the same time. We all have our strengths.
I feel his pain. My husband is the same. Our wardrobe is bigger than our bedroom.
When it comes to luxury products, the brands that are “cool” now are almost uniformly terrible in quality, and have ceased quality manufacturing in order to sell bad quality products at high prices to masses of people.
All of those bags, shirts, belts, etc. that you see that have Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Michael Kors, Chanel emblazoned across them are new phenomena, and almost all terrible quality, terrible craftsmanship. They fray and fall apart and are...
When it comes to luxury products, the brands that are “cool” now are almost uniformly terrible in quality, and have ceased quality manufacturing in order to sell bad quality products at high prices to masses of people.
All of those bags, shirts, belts, etc. that you see that have Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Michael Kors, Chanel emblazoned across them are new phenomena, and almost all terrible quality, terrible craftsmanship. They fray and fall apart and are not worth the money people pay for them.
I say this to say, if you want quality luxury products that will actually last, the last thing you want is something that is currently “cool.”
I mean… sure, but we’re talking free goodies on a plane here.
I’ll take a questionable quality designer bag over Virgin’s glorified paper bag any day.
You can’t put Michael Kors in the same category as those three other brands. Not even close.
I’m not aware of Chanel selling anything that could be reasonably defined as cheap tat. It all comes down to how you look after things. If you buy a $70K haute couture suit from Chanel and treat it like garbage, it won’t last. If you hang it correctly, have it hand-cleaned, and teat it with the respect it...
You can’t put Michael Kors in the same category as those three other brands. Not even close.
I’m not aware of Chanel selling anything that could be reasonably defined as cheap tat. It all comes down to how you look after things. If you buy a $70K haute couture suit from Chanel and treat it like garbage, it won’t last. If you hang it correctly, have it hand-cleaned, and teat it with the respect it deserves, it will last for decades. The same goes for luxury leather goods - the wallet you keep in your pocket all day every day will not last as long as a piece of luggage that never gets checked into the baggage hold of an aircraft.
Chanel's bags and clothes have declined noticeably in quality over the last 5 or so years. Poor stitching, issues with the leather, colors fading quickly, crappy patinas on clasps and buttons.
Their vintage stuff is EXCELLENT, and there are some things (sweaters, some of the tweed jackets) that are still worth it and will last. But a lot of their stuff is pushed out so fast that the quality control is absolutely awful.
(You're right...
Chanel's bags and clothes have declined noticeably in quality over the last 5 or so years. Poor stitching, issues with the leather, colors fading quickly, crappy patinas on clasps and buttons.
Their vintage stuff is EXCELLENT, and there are some things (sweaters, some of the tweed jackets) that are still worth it and will last. But a lot of their stuff is pushed out so fast that the quality control is absolutely awful.
(You're right about Michael Kors...I actually meant to say Marc Jacobs, in which case the point still stands...but I was really referencing those dumb "The Tote Bag" bags that literally have that written on them)...like all of the raffia bags that have "CHRISTIAN DIOR" or "PRADA" or "LANVIN" on them...they're just so tacky, and extremely poor quality for the exorbitant prices they charge. And they and the clothes that have the label name slapped on them just look ridiculous lol.
It’s a downgrade imho since it doesn’t seem to have any face mist spray