It’s time to re-examine Louis Vuitton bags. What can I say? I had written them off as I suspect most are fake when I see them an the arms of women everywhere. However, Rei Kawakubo (the Japanese designer behind Comme des Garçons) has given the bags a new look. Yes, as is the trend of the moment Rei Kawakubo is collaborating with Louis Vuitton and some of the results are spectacular. The evening bags will unveiled next Wednesday at a temporary concept store in Tokyo’s trendy Aoyama district.
“We thought it was so interesting to combine two opposite worlds,” said Yves Carcelle, Vuitton’s president and chief executive officer.
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The idea grew out of a conversation between Vuitton creative director Marc Jacobs and Adrian Joffe, Kawakubo’s husband, who’s president of Comme des Garçons International. “I admire and worship her and it’s the kind of thing that I think is so wonderful to do at Vuitton, where it’s such an iconic brand and that monogram and everything and, again, I’ve said all this before, but it’s so wonderful to have someone so outside of that thing take their look at it, their approach to it,” said Jacobs.
Read "Vuitton’s Deal with Rei Kawakubo" here.
Source & photo: WWD
