MANIFESTO

#61

ART NOW

CAPUCINES COLLECTION

2022.10.24

Text by Lucrezia Sgualdino

The Artycapucines 2022 collection includes the work of six international artists who have proposed their personal and original interpretation of one of the Maison’s timeless feminine classics: the Capucines bag.

The fourth episode of the collection sees the work of the artists in a limited edition, the iconic bag is in fact revisited under the creative key of six different points of view, giving life to their personal vision of style and beauty. The world-renowned figures chosen this time are Daniel Buren, Kennedy Yanko, Park Seo-Bo, Amélie Bertrand, Peter Marino, and Ugo Rondinone. Each creation becomes a true work of contemporary art, in fact, the artists start from the immaculate canvas and let their creative minds go wild in patterns, designs, and colors. The bag is named after the Parisian street, Rue Neuve-des-Capucines, where Monsieur Louis Vuitton opened his first boutique in 1854. Alongside the element of classicism and tradition is the brand’s desire to highlight artistic talent. An attitude that encompasses the skill of master craftsmanship and free inventiveness. 

UGO RONDINONE
PETER MARINO
AMÉLIE BERTRAND
PARK SEO-BO
KENNEDY YANKO

Daniel Buren thinks of a trompe-l’oeil motif in four different color variations; Kennedy Yanko works with leather, which is 3D printed and embellished with a metallic patina hand-applied by artisans. Park Seo-Bo, on the other hand, starts from an Écritues painting recreated in calfskin leather that are hoarded and decorated by hand; Amélie Bertrand proposes her version with hand painting and spray, with iridescent and fluorescent colors; Peter Marino’s proposal is instead a total black version with studs, of a great visual impact. Ugo Rondinone continues his work with beads: his harlequin-style bag is fun and colorful, covered with more than 14,000 hand-sewn tiny spheres. The collection carries forward the Maison’s desire to give space to the creative flair of big names on the contemporary art scene while keeping firmly in place the values linked to craftsmanship expertise and femininity of the Louis Vuitton woman.

On the occasion of Paris+ par Art Basel Louis Vuitton presented the Artycapucines 2022 collection. Renewing the attention and closeness to the world of art, the link took shape at the end of the last century through collaborations with the greatest artists of every era. In 2014, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, designed by Frank Ghery, was also born in Paris, testifying the ongoing interest in passing on the best of modern and contemporary art to new generations. 

 

 

For more information Louisvuitton.com. 

PARIS+ ART BASEL © MARTIN COLOMBET

Fashion Collab

RIMOWA X TIFFANY & CO.

2023.09.26

The new RIMOWA x Tiffany & Co. travel capsule is the collaboration that combines the aesthetics of the traveller with the more classic romanticism of the diamond.

BOTTEGA VENETA

BEYOND BORDERS

2023.09.24

Matthieu Blazy takes us through a physical and metaphorical journey, far away, in search of something else, and at the same time intimate, discovering the self. Clothes transform, men and women disguise and change, blending.

LOUIS VUITTON

GHESQUIÈRE OCTOBER 2014

2023.09.20

The GO-14 bag, an acronym for Ghesquière October 2014, originated as one of the first creations to mark the designer’s debut at the head of the Louis Vuitton Maison.

NEWS

On Foot

2023.09.19

The exhibition On Foot, curated by Jonathan Anderson at Offer Waterman Gallery, will bring contemporary artists in dialogue with works of modern British Art and some interventions conceived by the designer himself.

EXHIBITION

MODE ET SPORT. D'UN PODIUM À L'AUTRE

2023.09.18

Ahead of the 2024 Olympics, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris presents Mode et Sport: from September 20th 2023 will be possible to discover the fascinating interconnections between fashion and sport from the ancient world to the present day.