Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2010 Men’s Collection
June 25, 2009
Thursday June 24th 2009 – 104 – 5 rue Curial – Paris
“Gentlemen Butterflies” was the theme of the Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2010 Collection. Paul Helbers found his inspiration from the bike messengers of New York City. The bright orange neon touches and yellow cab colored shoes refers to the city that never sleeps. Rolled up pants and shorts, cropped pants “because he’s on a bike and doesn’t want to dirt his pants” said Paul Helbers backstage. Biker jackets, lurex bow ties, metallic shoes, fluorescent buttons on jacket cuffs and neon heels on pointy shoes. Clin d’oeil at the Louis Vuitton Fall Winter 2009 Women’s fashion show with the biker touches on belts and bracelets. The Black Eyed Peas came with a brunette Fergie wearing a Louis Vuitton Fall 09 navy look with LV logo belt was posing backstage. Raphaël Personaz french upcoming actor, Keziah Jones Nigerian songwriter and guitarist, Italian actor Paolo Stella, Bradley Cooper, International soccer player Yoann Gourcuff were the Vip’s attendees while Halle Berry baby daddy Gabriel Aubry shared the catwalk with US Saber Fencer Jason Rogers.
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Louis Vuitton in Graffiti from Head to Skateboard
January 6, 2009
Louis Vuitton is really enthousiastic about the new graffiti line! The good news is that everybody can’t wait to see this line re-released again! Louis Vuitton is really celebrating the collaboration with Steven Sprouse by re-launching the Monogram Graffiti line that shocked everyone in 2001.
The Graffiti line was the first Artist/Fashion collaboration that changed the Louis Vuitton world.
WWD report that the NYC Soho store will be transformed into a Sprouse destination in time for the collection’s arrival.
The store will be wrapped in vinyl and spray painting neon graffiti all over the facade. The window display will feature a 6-foot neon light installation in Sprouse’s Rose motif. The store’s interior, enhanced with black brick wall facing, will also be sprayed with the neon graffiti.
The collection will launch in its entirety at the SoHo boutique on Thursday. The complete worldwide
launch will follow on Feb. 2, though the Rose pieces will be available at Louis Vuitton stores worldwide starting Friday.
The luxury goods company is also creating two limited edition pieces, which will only be available at the SoHo location: a Stephen Sprouse graffiti skateboard replete with a hard case monogram skateboard trunk, and a Stephen Sprouse “Roses” T-shirt. The company hopes to sell three graffiti skateboards with trunks for $8,250 each, and 70 T-shirts for $250 each. “I don’t expect them to last very long,” Lalonde said. “By Friday, there probably won’t be any more left.”
Proceeds will benefit Free Arts NYC, which provides underserved children throughout New York City with special arts programs. Vuitton is also making an undisclosed donation to the Sprouse Estate, as well as the Stephen Sprouse Memorial Scholarship Fund at the National Academy for Design here.
Sprouse became known in the Eighties for his graffiti art and fashion designs. In 2001, Vuitton artistic director Marc Jacobs collaborated with Sprouse and created an instant must-have accessories collection with the Monogram Graffiti collection.
Sprouse died in 2004, and Vuitton made its first donation to the fund in 2006 when Jacobs created a scarf in Sprouse’s honor, using one of the collaboration’s leopard prints.
Vuitton will honor the late artist with three events this Thursday. The night will kick off with cocktails at the Vuitton boutique on Greene Street, with a simultaneous event at nearby Deitch Projects’ Wooster Street Gallery for the opening of the “Rock on Mars” Sprouse retrospective. Afterwards, Vuitton and Jacobs will host a bash at the Bowery Ballroom, featuring a performance by Sprouse’s friend Debbie Harry. The venue is expected to have a Sprouse feel, with a special graffiti-and-neon decor.
But more important, who’s going?
Madonna for Louis Vuitton By Steven Meisel
November 13, 2008
Style.com reported earlier this week that the Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2009 campaign featuring Madonna has already been shot. It will be in fact shot tomorrow 11/14/08 by Steven Meisel and not by Mert Alas et Marcus Piggott.
The stylist is Marie Amelie Sauve. Marie Amelie Sauve works as a fashion editor for Vogue Paris and is also a consultant for Balenciaga.
Louis Vuitton RTW Spring Summer 2009
October 5, 2008
October 5th 2008 – Cour Carree du Louvre
For its show, Louis Vuitton transforms the tranquil open court space into a two-three floor paneled structure stretching out nearly 400 yards in every direction. Rushing through cobblestone steps filled with photogs and onlookers, we quickly flashed our invitations to the PR folks at the door. Up through the dark steps and around the bleechers we went, looking for our row seating.
As opposed to the year before’s show, there were fewer celebs sitting front row. Aside from a the famous series of journalists magazine editors, we could neigh find a Lenny Kravitz or a Dita Von Teese sitting adjacent to Julia Restoin Roitfeld. Alas, we tucked our invite away and chatted up with the ladies from Vogue everywhere – Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Latin America, etc. It was like a U.N. Council meeting except with a lot more sass.
The décor was strewn with bamboo and grain, the runway being lifted to shoulder level for the front-rowers (a classic Parisian setup as opposed to the on-the-floor American runway). Overhead, we could hear Edith Piaf’s classic melodies sweetening the air, bringing a smile to everyone’s faces. This was going to be about Paris, but the African backdrop clued us that this would not be any standard fare.
The lights dimmed and in flash the girls came out, in gorgeous silhouettes that looked as if Marc had taken every spice of texture and fabric and married it to couture for the street. Paris meets Africa meets Street Chic meets Marc Jacobs’s personal S/S ‘09 collection. And while we could see pieces of MJ’s NY showing, the harmonizing of big hair, leopard print bags, tassled hobos, jungle-inspired pumps with brilliant short skirts caught the audience off guard – but in a good way.
No sooner had the show started than we started to get up to head backstage. Many folks forked either into the backstage area or ran to Lanvin’s showing. We had had enough for this Paris Fashion Week and trotted past the well-placed bamboo sticks to follow Marc into the Q&A photogs area. With a glass of champagne in one hand and a truffle-paté bouché in another, we listened carefully as a cool, collected, slick back hair-in-suit MJ describe in a clear, but detracted manner the inspiration for this collection, à la Yves St. Laurent’s Opium pieces. With interviewers declaring that this was his best collection ever, all you could see is MJ’s adorable grin, as if he heard a joke that only he knew. Every collection is the “best” he must think. But you could see that it’s not being the best that interests him – it’s the challenge of the “next” that gets him up in the morning.
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