Designers Brian Wolk and Claude Morais Ring in 2024 With a Transatlantic Trunk Show Aboard the Queen Mary 2

There’s a direct flight from LAX to Charles de Gaulle, but why spend 12 hours hurling through the troposphere, when you can spend eight luxurious days crossing the North Atlantic Ocean on the Queen Mary 2? Brian Wolk and Claude Morais set sail from Brooklyn on January 3 and they’ll arrive in Southampton, England on January 11.

From there, it’s a short Eurostar to Paris, where they’re presenting their new gender free hand stitched to buyers. QM2 guests are getting an on ship preview and making pre orders—think of it as a transatlantic trunk show. Since their first crossing in May 2022, Morais has been studying the history of sea travel; he recommends by John Malcom Brinnin, to the cruise curious.

Wolk, for his part, endorses the QM2’s fencing class and the indoor pool on Deck 12. Checking in via email from near Halifax, Nova Scotia, he reported, “we haven’t seen any icebergs, but we do have some stormy weather ahead on Saturday and Sunday. It’s a winter crossing, after all. You never know what adventures lie ahead.” Scroll through theses images from the designers’ first few days aboard the ship.

Departure day on a Transatlantic Crossing connects us to our fashion forefathers who have made this journey many times. The anticipation is palpable for the adventures of eight days at sea. There is no more glamorous way to travel than in the Queens Grill Suites aboard Queen Mary 2. Our duplex, replete with three marble bathrooms, a walk in closet, and dining room, makes the perfect pied à terre at sea, where service is not only a virtue but comes delivered in a smart red suit.

QM2 boasts the largest library at sea with about 10,000 volumes in a wide array of languages, ranging from pulp fiction to high art (and of course a selection of fashion titles!) The Commodore Club is a handsome wood paneled watering hole where modern mixology is accompanied by sweeping views of the sea..