Late last year, Louis Vuitton Men’s Artistic Director Virgil Abloh announced that his first collaboration at the luxury French design house would be with Japanese designer and DJ Nigo. Known for his streetwear brand Human Made, Abloh spoke to Vogue about the streetwear pioneer, stating “me being at Louis Vuitton is directly attributable to work Nigo’s done in the past”. A collab between the two friends was inevitable, and the collection’s first drop debuted earlier this summer to much fanfare. Following the collaboration’s second drop on August 28th, we now have a look at the duo’s latest pieces for Louis Vuitton.
The Louis Vuitton x Nigo collaboration perfectly marries the house’s iconic codes with Nigo’s individual approach to style and fashion. For this collection, Abloh introduced a new take on the brand’s storied Damier checks. Bags in this collection incorporate classic monogram with an updated and giant take on LV’s Damier Canvas.
The collection includes some of Louis Vuitton’s most classic and recognizable styles, though the duo has expertly fused together both Nigo’s individual style and Abloh’s modern takes on Louis Vuitton’s most classic house emblems. Beloved bags are reinvented, resulting in highly-covetable and insanely cool new bags. LV² branded detailing and finishes appear throughout the collection, as well as graphic detailing bearing the phrase ‘LV Made’, which is, of course, a take on Nigo’s own brand Human Made.
Take a look below at more pieces from LV x Nigo’s latest drop, or discover more via Louis Vuitton. Pieces from the collaboration are available now in store and on Louis Vuitton.com.
Plain disaster
No comments?? I LOVE it. Love the new logo font, it’s such a nice throwback – even the designs are somewhat of a throwback to the early 1900s. Love these items as well has a very ‘Canadian country feel’ (biased, since I am Canadian). The jumbo prints they are doing are fantastic as well… surprisingly not so in your face as I would have thought. Very well done. The Japanese are genius in design, LV needs to keep a lot of them on board for more X
I couldn’t describe it and you just did that for me. LOVE LOVE LOVE that new font. Its very fresh, but very throw back in a way. Like something you’d wear to Woodstock
I like it. It’s a very cool and fresh update. I would love bag #2.
I can’t understand why designers keep making these “innovative” melting-/paint dripping-designs? They were not cool in the 80’s and they are not cool now.
What a hodge podge of ugly
Agreed
Hideous is an understatement
What’s the point? They are impossible to get and the only place to get them is on the resale market…
From the blogger’s closets who got them for free and sold at twice the price that was already ridiculous.
These influencers are getting on my tits! Wish the brands would explore different ways
It’s interesting that there is always a divergent group with some loving them and other’s not. Personally, I love them as well as the “dripped paint” design. If it’s a product of the 80’s I missed it since I was too busy raising my children to notice anything fashion related.
I didn’t know it was a “thing” in the 80s but I like it too. The camera bag especially
I like the denim. The rest, meh.
Free is too much for this horror.
What’s the point of doing a blog with items no one can buy online? According to my SA, all of these were sold out a few weeks ago.
There are so many of this second line collection as well as first collaboration pieces available on Japanese Auction site. Clearly no one buying any of those collaboration pieces.
But sad to see so many people buy things from Louis Vuitton and try to resale their purchase with stupid price. Thoughts they are hilarious.