First unveiled in December in Asnières-sur-Seine, France, at Vuitton’s historic residence northwest of Paris, the traveling showcase headed to Marina Bay in Singapore last April and Los Angeles in September, before culminating in New York City.
The production marks house founder Louis Vuitton’s bicentennial birthday. He was born in 1821 and founded the luxury house in 1854.
“Louis was a creative and when you look at our business today, creativity is at the heart of everything we do,” said Faye McLeod, Louis Vuitton’s visual image director, via Zoom, explaining that the way her team approached the project was to think on “how do we mark a founder’s birthday that’s so significant?”
With trunks, of course. The maison tasked friends of the house, brands, artists, diverse creators and thinkers across art, science, and pop culture — giving them complete freedom to reimagine the iconic trunk. “We wanted to celebrate creativity and innovation in many different forms,” McLeod, who has an Assouline book “Louis Vuitton Windows” dedicated to her work, said of the
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