Louis Vuitton X celebrates 160 years of creative collaboration on the style home
Louis Vuitton has created an exhibition in Los Angeles that showcases its collaborations with main artists over the previous 160 years, full with baggage and a tropical pop-up store.
The Louis Vuitton X exhibition on the 468 North Rodeo Drive constructing in Beverly Hills comprises 180 gadgets from the French style home’s archive.
The gadgets are displayed in 10 vibrantly colored rooms. A number of the exhibition areas are darkish black with vibrant glowing mild designs, whereas others resemble crisp white galleries or museums with glass-fronted shows.
One exhibit room options checkerboard partitions, ceiling and flooring in a dusty rose color. Chunks of the room depict a turquoise ocean with a ship, dock and cliffs. One other house has white partitions lined with Louis Vuitton in black font, layered with dozens of vibrant up to date work.
Included within the exhibition are six Louis Vuitton Monogram leather-based duffle baggage which were reinterpreted by famend artists and designers, together with the late Karl Lagerfeld and Zaha Hadid, in addition to Rei Kawakubo, Yayoi Kusama, Cindy Sherman and Frank Gehry.
One other spotlight of the exhibit is Louis Vuitton’s newest Artycapucines assortment, a collaborative challenge with six up to date artists who’ve custom-designed Capucines baggage for the label. Sam Falls, Urs Fischer, Nicholas Hlobo, Alex Israel, Tschabalala Self and Jonas Wooden every created a design.
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These purses are displayed symmetrically on white podiums, every lit with a unique color.
On the prime flooring of the constructing is a pop-up retailer. The retail house is embellished with pink palm timber, whereas a domed yellow ceiling is designed to glow like a sundown.
The store contains merchandise curated by Sarah Andelman, founding father of consulting and curating firm Simply an Thought and former artistic director of Parisian idea retailer Colette.
Items on the market are Louis Vuitton girls’s ready-to-wear garments, leather-based items, equipment, footwear and fragrances.
Further highlights on the exhibit embrace a set of early twentieth-century special-order Louis Vuitton trunks, artwork deco fragrance bottles, and window shows designed by Louis Vuitton’s grandson, Gaston-Louis.
In Dallas, Texas, a retrospective of Dior’s work has been designed by OMA accomplice Shohei Shigematsu, whereas the Gender Bending Vogue exhibit passed off in Boston.
Louis Vuitton X is on present till 15 September 2019 at 468 North Rodeo Drive constructing in Beverly Hills, California.
Pictures is by Brad Dickson.