Louis Vuitton City Bags: A Natural History

Description

This volume is an unprecedented history of Louis Vuitton’s girls’s bags, probably the most coveted line of accessories in girls’s fashion. On the heart of Louis Vuitton are its Town Bags, a variety of ladies’s bags that dates back to the flip of the 20th century. That includes the trademark monograms of the home, the Town Bag story started with the Steamer, a resort bag designed in 1901 to be packed within a far larger steamer trunk. These bags have in 100 years formally diversified into a dizzying array of purses for each imaginable serve as demanded by the brand new lady. Profoundly influential, Town Bags are referred to now to millions by their descriptive names (Keepall, Bucket, Papillon, Alma, Locket, Noe, Rapid) and are still evolving into more fantastical forms. Lavishly illustrated with new and archival photography, historical graphics, landmark editorials, and ad campaigns, the quantity traces the history of those particular bag families, and examines the earliest specimens and these days’s so much sought-after collectibles, together with Vuitton’s collaborations with Takashi Murakami, Stephen Sprouse, Richard Prince, Yayoi Kusama, and Rei Kawakubo and one-off projects by Zaha Hadid, Shigeru Ban, Vivienne Westwood, Helmut Lang, Andrée Putman, and naturally, Marc Jacobs. Louis Vuitton: Town Bags is an ambitious volume at the creation and cultivation of a cultural phenomenon.