I mean to be fair, it’s not surprising. Luxury brands aren’t exactly notorious for their integrity, see Chanel, Balenciaga, Hugo Boss and ironically, Louis Vuitton’s involvement in WW2.

For those who’ll open this thread to look for general luggage not necessarily made in Europe, IT Luggage is decent (I have 3 suitcases from like 2018 that went through about a dozen short flights and 2 long haul ones). UK-based company and most likely made in China.

I switched over to Proton a few weeks ago, so far so good. They had my name available so no more weird convoluted email address anymore yay!

Not technically pens or paints but Essdee are great for all things prints - think lino print, block or screen print and so on. They’re a UK company.