The perfect travel jacket is the pet-tree-kor jacket

We are in that time of year dedicated to the most sensual and worldly of the earth signs, that is, the season of Taurus. We are very grateful for our bulls, because they remind us that food, drink, sex and money exist to be experienced in all their glory. And what better way to enjoy all these things than traveling? Break out your carefully curated and impeccably curated vintage designer handbags (after all, we're talking about Taurus) and go somewhere.

The ritual of travel is as visceral as it is spiritual. It's the sweat that builds up under your neck as you walk quickly to the door (just to make sure it's there, right?) as much as a kiss at 4am on a starry beach that's only accessible by motorcycle. And the ritual that precedes the ritual—packing—becomes a delicate, tense dance of selection, a personal curatorial Everest that requires the traveler to dream, above all, of how rainy the breeze might be on the way to the destination. Eiffel Tower, how You could dress for both a rooftop dinner and a volcanic hike outside San Salvador, whether you long for stiletto boots at the Beijing Opera or are too fascinated by the spectacle to care that they have brought flat shoes. However, the careful balance of environmental factors in wardrobe selection takes a backseat to the crown jewel of functionality: the multi-purpose travel jacket.

Selecting a travel jacket is an art and a science, and it is best done elegantly, paying attention to form, function, aesthetics and practicality, like a pillow when folded into quarters or eighths on a flight. long distance. I should be able to take you to a museum and visit the botanical garden with street food in hand on the same day. For this, I can suggest the Helicteres Isora green jacket from pet-tree-kor. The Shanghai-based label's name is a nod to “petrichor,” a functional and mystically perfect word that exists solely to describe the divine perfume that greets your nostrils after rain (a smell that humans can supposedly detect with more cunning than that of a shark). the nose can detect blood).

Crafted from a tweed blend with a gorgeous mossy sheen, this garment is both architectural in its structure and fluid in its silhouette. It looks both attractive and familiar (almost like your most gallant grandfather's jacket from the days when he used to go out dancing with your grandmother) and polished and elegant. You wouldn't look out of place in a cozy restaurant on a rainy night in San Francisco's Chinatown or on a humid morning at your generationally wealthy friend's Rhode Island beach house. The shade of the jacket is an often underrated neutral and pairs nicely with virtually any other piece in your suitcase, maybe even amethyst or royal blue too. Helicteres isora, after which the jacket is named, is a vibrant plant from northern Oceania whose leaves dry into tawny green volutes, like nature's fractals.

And you'll be in nature's most esoteric fractal in your tree-shaped travel jacket and kor, navigating the liminal space of LAX on the way to your next adventure. Does your manic pixie complex fantasize about an ethereal-looking stranger hypnotized in a dream as he gazes at the flecks of fluorescent lights from the Tom Bradley Terminal reflecting off this sumptuous swamp-hued fabric? Mine too. For all the grounding and presence that resets our nervous system, our earthly vessels would be nothing without the dream of bright green.

gothic shakira is a digital conjurer based in Los Angeles.