Rick Owens: GRAIL RARE Passport Holder LCW Calf Leather SS19 Babel

Model: RB19S0312 LCW

Collection: SS19 Babel

Condition: New

Color: 09 Black

Composition
Main: 100% Calf Leather
Lining: 100% Cotton
CC Pocket Lining: 100% Polyester

Made in: Italy

Size: UNI ~8.25" x ~5.25" [21cm x 13cm]

Babel revolved around what Rick called the “quivering needle” of human experience - that constant oscillation between building toward utopia and bracing for collapse. Between ambition and inevitability. Between hope and ruin.

He referenced the biblical Tower of Babel. Tatlin’s Tower. Monuments to human aspiration that either fell or were never realized. On the runway, the central structure was literally set on fire. Collapse was part of the narrative.

And yet the collection wasn’t nihilistic. It was about persistence. The refusal to stop building.

This passport holder sits perfectly inside that tension.

A travel document case from a collection about borders, ambition, and failed towers. Dense black leather, zipped shut like a vault. Structured interior. Layered compartments. Severe, architectural lines. It feels like a portable monument, scaled down to something you carry against your body.

The proportions are deliberate. It slides seamlessly into Rick’s internal “sandwich” pockets, integrating into the system of his coats like it was engineered as part of the architecture. Not an add-on. A component.

I bought it for travel. For movement. For airports.
Then Covid happened.

Borders closed. Towers paused. The world froze.

It never left the box and I decided to keep it that way.

So what you’re looking at now is something almost poetic: an untouched Babel passport holder from the season that interrogated human ambition and fragility, preserved through a real global interruption that mirrored its themes.

Unused. Box-kept. From one of Rick’s most conceptually loaded collections.

It’s not just a leather accessory.
It’s a small monument to the idea that even when structures burn, we still plan the next departure.

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