Through his 16-year tenure at Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs has always had his women. Some designers keep their muses private, but Jacobs has always placed front and center the women who he finds inspirational, from American filmmaker Sofia Coppola, to Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen, to French acting legend Catherine Deneuve and beyond. For the Louis Vuitton Spring 2014 ad campaign, his final for the brand, Jacobs has put those women front and center
In total, the ads will star Catherine Deneuve, Sofia Coppola, Gisele Bundchen, Fan Bingbing, Caroline de Maigret and Edie Campbell, all of whom have been friends of the brand during Jacobs’ tenure there. The Steven Meisel-lensed ads are all portraits of the women with Spring 2014 handbags on a table in front of them, and they retain the blue-black glamor of the Vuitton runway show. Ladies and handbags – it’s a fitting swan song to Marc Jacobs’ time at the helm of the world’s biggest luxury brand. Check out the images below, straight from Louis Vuitton.
I LOVE the fact that he is using “older” (for the fashion industry) accomplished women for this campaign. I love the bags too!
I agree with you about the women, for sure. I’m less in love with most of the bags.
For some reason, that last one with the feathers is screaming my name.
Is it screaming, or is it clucking? (joke… smiley face)
Yes to ladies, no to bags – unimaginative bucket bags, rather dull – sorry…
If you realize that these bags are a take on the iconic noe bag (bucket shaped, originally created to hold champagne bottles) that Vuitton designed almost 100 years ago, then it is a fitting bag for the campaign. Hard to be unimaginative when you are the brand that created the original.
This campaign is brilliant! All of them are perfectly styled in sync with their persona. The feather bag that Catherine Deneuve is clutching is to die for, and Fan Bingbing is utterly gorgeous ( as are all of them )
The campaign is great, the photography / styling / actresses they selected are all wonderful except for Fan Bingbing. She is NOT original like all the others. Fan Bingbing had numerous cosmetic surgeries done throughout her whole body, not just her face. All the others are gorgeous and original.