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I’m hooked on Peak Design’s new City bags - The Verge
Technology and ScienceBy Thomas Ricker8/17/20261 min read
Peak Design’s City Crescent and City Backpack both feature new BagLev hooks. They’re so useful that I now want all my bags to have tabletop hooks.
✨ Key Highlights
- Peak Design has introduced a new City Line of bags featuring an integrated "BagLev" hook, a sewn-in, nonslip mechanism designed to hang bags off chairs, ledges, tables, and counters to keep them off dirty ground.
- The San Francisco-based camera gear maker branded the feature BagLev for its ability to keep bags "levitated" above filth picked up from subways, sidewalks, parks, and bars.
- Verge deputy editor and co-founder Thomas Ricker tested two bags while vanlifing through France: the 12-liter City Crescent crossbody bag priced at $119.95 and the 15L City Backpack at $179.95.
- Ricker favored the City Crescent for casually exploring villages, reaching for the City Backpack when carrying his laptop for remote work in more remote locations.
- The bags use lightweight, water-resistant fabric, and dirt on the near-white "Moon" colorway wiped away easily with a damp cloth, according to his weeks of testing.
- The City Crescent earned a Verge Score of 9, with Ricker saying the hook has reshaped his expectations for everyday carry and made his other hookless bags feel comparatively dirty and less capable.