https://www.bdma.org/tags/steph-korey/Recent content in Steph-Korey on BDMA.orgHugo -- gohugo.ioenbdma.orgSat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bdma.org/post/away-luggage-catalog-model/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bdma.org/post/away-luggage-catalog-model/ <h2 id="a-suitcase-breaks-apart-in-a-swiss-airport">A Suitcase Breaks Apart in a Swiss Airport</h2> <p>Jen Rubio's suitcase splits open on an airport floor in Switzerland, spilling clothes and toiletries across the tile, and she patches it back together with borrowed straps and tape just to make her connection. That mishap, recounted in <a href="https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/history-of-away-luggage-data/">The Business of Business's history of the company</a>, is the founding anecdote behind <strong><a href="https://www.awaytravel.com/">Away</a></strong>, the luggage brand Rubio launched with Steph Korey in 2015. The two had met in 2011 while working together at Warby Parker, where Rubio ran social media and Korey oversaw supply chain — colleagues, not strangers, when Rubio called Korey looking for a suitcase that wouldn't fail her again.</p>