Darcel Visits Louis Vuitton
Posted By: Whollys Staff Filed Under: Art
Australian artist Craig Redman takes the cartoon character Darcel (Darcel Disappoints) and offers his pop vision for French luxury brand Louis Vuitton brand new store opening located at New Bond Street and Clifford Street in London. The scene offered a spotlight to celebrate work from artists such as Gilbert & George, Takashi Murakami and Richard Prince. Read the rest of this entry »
Louis Vuitton Sunlight Sneaker
Posted By: Whollys Staff Filed Under: Fashion, Sneakers
Louis Vuitton Sunlight sneaker from their Winter 2009 collection. The LV Sunlights feature two colorways, grey/royal blue and khaki/red. The shoe has a upper combination of leather and premium suede with a sporty suede ankle strap. Although their not Kanye’s “Dons” or “Jaspers” they still have a nice clean design.
Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture
Posted By: Whollys Staff Filed Under: Architecture, Art, FashionLouis Vuitton partners with artist Camille Scherrer to present the new Louis Vuitton Art, Fashion and Architecture book. Watch this book come to life in this neat animated movie!
Louis V 09 Fall/Winter Bag Collection
Posted By: Whollys Staff Filed Under: Fashion
Louis Vuitton man bags for the fall and winter lineup inspired by “the traveling wardrobe of an African kingâ€.
These man bags are like man purses said to cost anywhere from $700-$5100 depending on size and styles. Me personally use the Louis V bags when traveling.
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Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton Superflat First Love Full Version
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Full short film celebrating six years of collaboration between Murakami and Vuitton. Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton’s relationship manifests itself in their “Superflat First Love†cartoon short.
Nice idea to have a short film for a celebration. After all their collaboration have accomplished alot.
Louis Vuitton made out of LEGO
Posted By: Whollys Staff Filed Under: Design
These LEGO interpretations of the iconic louis vuitton handbags and wallets were made by chiu keung. the ‘expert builder’ is a member of the ‘Hong Kong LEGO user group’ who were behind the welldocumented LEGO beijing sports village.
No need to go search for the items because they are just interpretations. But hey this would be a neat idea if these designs where real instead of toys..Nice!
Source: designboom
The Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture Book
Posted By: Whollys Staff Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Fashion
Soon Louis Vuitton will be releasing a book, giving you a good detail look into all the collaborative projects that the brand has been involved in the past years. Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion And Architecture will also come in limited edition Takashi Murakami version. You know Takashi Murakami is the guy that designed Louis logos lately. He has been a big part into their designs lately. He also designs alot of Kanye West art. The book is priced at $130 USD.
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Louis Vuitton and Creation
A symbol of elegance and the French art de vivre, Louis Vuitton has cultivated a close relationship with the world of art since its founding in 1854. Inventing the art of travel, Louis Vuitton and his successors kept pace with a rapidly changing age, and worked with the most accomplished engineers, decorators, painters, photographers and designers of the day. This fascination with ever-new forms of expression grew through the subsequent decades and continues today under the guidance of its artistic director, Marc Jacobs; shoes, watches, jewelry and ready-to-wear collections have joined alongside the malletier’s distinctive bags and travel accessories.
Louis Vuitton’s interest in the arts began in the 1980s when it started working with painters like César, Sol LeWitt and Olivier Debré. Demonstrating the influence of art on artisanship, these richly textured collaborations became a tradition and reached a new level when Marc Jacobs joined the House in 1997. Passionate about contemporary art, Jacobs invited some of the world’s most renowned artists to join forces with Louis Vuitton, increasing the points of exchange between art and fashion to an unprecedented degree. Among these renowned partnerships, the late Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami and Richard Prince even intervened directly with the House’s Monogram, freely appropriating its forms and visual identity. Collaborations between Louis Vuitton and other artists have taken a variety of forms: shop window designs, site-specific art installations for stores, exhibitions at the Espace Louis Vuitton on the top floor of the Champs-Elysées Maison, and the acquisitions of new works for the House’s own collection. In the same spirit, Louis Vuitton has called upon an international pantheon of architects to design its stores, including Jun Aoki, Kumiko Inui and Peter Marino. Advertising campaigns have also created opportunities to work with talented photographers as Jean Larivière, Annie Leibovitz, Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
Interview with Yves Carcelle, Chairman and CEO of Louis Vuitton
Why publish today a retrospective book on the major collaborations of Louis Vuitton?
At Louis Vuitton, the influence of art has been an obvious inspiration for new products, store architecture, artistic collaborations, and for the Maison’s advertising campaigns. Our will to build and grow our relationship with the contemporary art world has led us to work with numerous artists of our times such as photographers, architects and fashion designers. It was essential for Louis Vuitton to trace, through an enthralling anthology, its most significant artistic collaborations. In this book, the focus remains on artists that have impacted the history of Louis Vuitton.
What is Louis Vuitton’s role in the world of the contemporary creation?
Of all modern luxury brands, Louis Vuitton can claim to maintain the richest and most varied associations with the world of art – indeed, it is a tradition that dates back almost to the origins of the House. This desire to continuously create and reinvent, whilst maintaining and transmitting the history and identity of the brand, has been transformed into multiples collaborations, most of time quite unexpected. Constantly renewed under the influence of Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton’s commitment to the arts has recently been underscored by the establishment of the Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, announced in October 2006 by Bernard Arnault, Chairman & CEO of LVMH/Moët Hennessy.Louis Vuitton. The future Fondation will be an exciting new space and concept intended to stimulate dialogue with a wide audience and offer artists and intellectuals a platform for discussion, inspiration and reflection. If the brand inspires artists, designers and architects, they, in return, inspire Louis Vuitton. This mutual inspiration is very challenging and productive, not only for the luxury world, but also for the contemporary art world.
How do you explain the success of Louis Vuitton’s collaborations?
Fashion, luxury, art and architecture unite to propose a new vision of the world and take us away from the ordinary. Contemporary art gives us an alternative point of view. Modern architecture, inseparable from the luxury world, plays a key role in setting Louis Vuitton’s name in present time. The fashion industry and its designers give a fresh energy and a unique creativity to the House’s ready-to-wear collections. A contemporary artist, whether he is an architect, a photographer or a fashion designer, often produces unexpected creations. It is a bold challenge for Louis Vuitton and I believe that only a handful of brands have been able to surpass the boundaries to this point between luxury and contemporary creation.
A selection of 80 Artists
Haluk Akakçe, Azzedine Alaïa, Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, Jun Aoki, Ron Arad, Arman, Gae Aulenti, Shigeru Ban, Philippe Barthélémy & Sylvia Griño, Vanessa Beecroft, Manolo Blahnik, Eric Carlson, Gilles Carnoy, César, Jaime Chard, Kirill Celuskin, Sandro Chia, Claude Closky, Patrick Demarchelier, Olivier Debré, Vincent Dubourg, Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, Sylvie Fleury, Frank Gehry, Romeo Gigli, Jean-Paul Goude, Guzman, Zaha Hadid, Hans Hemmert, Anouska Hempel, Fritz Hansen, Kumiko Inui, Arata Isozaki, Marc Jacobs, Alexey Kallima, Rei Kawakubo, David LaChapelle, Xavier Lambours, Helmut Lang, Jean Larivière, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Ange Leccia, Annie Leibovitz, Sol LeWitt, Christian Liaigre, Michael Lin, Katherina Manolessou, Peter Marino, Raymond Meier, Miss.Tic, Isaac Mizrahi, Nicolas Moulin, Takashi Murakami, Malakeh Nayini, Jean-Jacques Ory, Martin Parr, Bruno Peinado, Fabrizio Plessi, Richard Prince, Andrée Putman, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Razzia, Ugo Rondinone, James Rosenquist, Alberto Sorbelli, Stephen Sprouse, Philippe Starck, Sybilla, Juergen Teller, Ruben Toledo, Nicole Tran Ba Vang, James Turrell, Inez van amsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Julie Verhoeven, Zhan Wang, Vivienne Westwood, Tim White-Sobieski, Robert Wilson, William Adjété Wilson.
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LOUIS VUITTON MON MONOGRAM SERVICE
Posted By: Whollys Staff Filed Under: FashionEvery time you look around Louis is always dropping some fresh shit. This bags are dope as hell.
For over 150 years, Special Orders have been a tradition at Louis Vuitton, who take pride in fulfilling a traveler’s most exceptional requests like helping them to satisfy a specific need, express their individuality, or realise a dream.
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Louis Vuitton has always offered personalisation services such as hot-stamping one’s initials onto a wide selection of soft leathergoods and accessories or hand-painting one’s initials onto hard-sided luggage. Taking this one step further, Louis Vuitton is proposing a new way to personalise a monogram bag and really make it one’s own.
Since 2008, Louis Vuitton proposes a new personalisation concept: Mon Monogram. With Mon Monogram, it is possible to create and own a truly unique bag by personalising one of two Louis Vuitton icons – the Speedy handbag and the Keepall travel bag and both of these in all sizes. And starting on 1 June 2009, this service will also be extended to the iconic Pégase 55 suitcase in both classic and business versions.
Louis Vuitton
Posted By: Whollys Staff Filed Under: FashionTakashi Murakami is one great artist and has definitely put his name into Louis Vuitton
Takashi Murakami artist of the Louis Vuitton Monogram and “Multicolor Spring Pallet†product has left his mark in LV stores interior.  These images show the Louis Vuitton Omotesando store, which now features Murakami flower wallpaper and also showcases a multitude of Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami plush characters throughout the store. Via Highsnobiety
Kanye West Louis Vuitton Photo Shoot
Posted By: Whollys Staff Filed Under: Entertainment, Fashion, Music
This is a sneak peak of Kanye West photo shoot with Louis Vuitton for Kanye up coming  Louis Vuitton collaboration sneaker. The photo shoot is going to be hot seems like. In the photo is also Kanye’s girlfriend Amber Rose who is also a model.
