Easily considered a pioneer of modern collaboration, Louis Vuitton has long since been accustomed to sharing its design process with someone else. The Maison celebrates its longstanding partnership with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry this year with kick-off at Art Basel Miami.
During Art Basel, Louis Vuitton will present a collection of co-created works showcased in a booth set-up meant to embody the famed architect’s trademark aesthetic.
The works are presented in four themes: Architecture and Form, Material Exploration, Animals, and Gehry’s iconic Twisted Box bag, which was created for the Maison’s Celebrating Monogram collection in 2014.
On Display
This unique experience not only offers a view into Gehry’s design process, with a look at original artworks, sketches, and architectural models, but it also reveals the world premiere of Louis Vuitton x Frank Gehry. The limited-edition handbag collection is a collaborative effort between the pair, centered around three themes.
The capsule collection sees the reinvention of the Maison’s Capucines bag, which, since its inception, has served as the perfect blank canvas for exploration. Additionally, new versions of Frank Gehry’s most-beloved creation for the Maison, the Twisted Box Trunk, will delight collectors.
Each piece perfectly encapsulates Louis Vuitton’s DNA alongside Frank Gehry’s design codes. Standouts from the collection include a Capucines Mini Blossom with glass-like resin petals that was inspired by Louis Vuitton’s perfume bottles, a Capucines MM with a Floating Fish, which takes inspiration from the logo created for the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, and more.
Discover the collection and presentation below. Visit the booth in person at Art Basel Miami Beach from today, December 8th through December 10th, 2023.
i love the concrete look a like Capucine. looks so gorgeous
Hmmm…. would prefer to see a collection done for the true Art Basel … in Basel, of course! And Marion, we even have a Frank Gehry building…
oh this is dangerous AF. I’m a huge Frank Gehry fan. My wallet is not safe.
I just got back from Miami, wish I was there to see the collection. Very interesting pieces.
I’m trying not to be mean, but… this is darn boring. Only three of the ten bags pictured look like a Gehry piece. The rest just looks like someone glued crap on a white bag and called it Art.
The torqued bags are a takeoff from the Tiffany jewelry. Wonder if they’d stand upright alone or fall over? The blossom bags look interesting but fragile…for show, only. The fish and crocodile bags are hideous. None of these bags is meant for actual wearing but simply for display. IMO.
The torqued bags where the first Frank Gehry collab done with LV on bags, these are just twisted in a different way, but he has done this before in 2014.
Besides the torque bags, I do agree with J Mic, the rest looks cheap and something a student might come up with…
Liking the curvy bag design.
Pretty Nice
Always loved Gehry colors wand designs