Trunks, art and polka-dots, how do these three things relate to each other you might wonder. The name that brings it all together is Louis Vuitton. The maison traditionelle invited us over to Paris on a show&tell with LV along with fellow bloggers Katja from LesMads, Sarah from Josie Loves, Sascha & Peter from Horstson, as well as Andy from Style Scrapbook and Carolina from Fashionsqad. In only two days we got to see the historical home of Louis Vuitton, who started his business in 1854, the studio in Asnières that still produces the famous travel trunks, the pop-up store opening for their design collaboration with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, the big Maison store at the Champs Elysees, their gallery Espace Culturel and the Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs exhibition. Follow our short but exciting trip after the jump.
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by Frank | Art, Fashion, Travel
Nurses, S/S 2008, © Louis Vuitton/Chris Moore
Thanks to our friends at Louis Vuitton we are once again able to stream their upcoming Paris Fashion Show live here on iHeartBerlin. This time it’s the womenswear collection we’re showing and it starts today at 10h in the morning. So don’t miss it!
For those of you who are in Paris right now we recommend the Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs Exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs that will open on Friday March 9th, 2012. Find out more about the exhibition here. The live stream of the fashion show is right after the jump.
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by Frank | Fashion, Videos
Although gray tones are dominating our German summer, on the catwalks of last Fashion Week explosions of color have been praised with applause. Marc Jacobs was also impressed with the color-blocking and honored designer Alexandra Kiesel with the prestigious award of Peek and Cloppenburg’s Design for Tomorrow. The present host and judge of the contest turned out to be warm and very accessible, very open and cheerful. Maybe it was not only the color but also the unique and flawless execution of the collection which helped Alexandra Kiesel to victory. Marc Jacobs put the focus on sellability. So the more experimental design talents such as Magdalena Stark from last year’s finalists have been missing in the show. Nonetheless, Designers for Tomorow is still one of my highlights of Fashion Week. More insights into the winner’s collection after the jump. The entire video for the show is available here.
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by Claudio | Fashion
The five finalists of the next Designer for Tomorrow Award, one of our favourite fashion competitions, were recently anounced at a press conference at the Soho House. To strengthen the international character of the competition Peek & Cloppenburg invited star designer Marc Jacobs to be a jury member. For me the skirt-wearing designer rather stands for tasteless naked self-glorification than for avant-garde fashion. But the young designers we spoke to were more than excited that Marc Jacobs had selected their collections. An interview we did with one of the designers you’ll find shortly on the DfT Blog. Having already seen a preview of the collections I am really looking forward to the show in July where the next German Designer for Tomorrow will be chosen.
by Claudio | Fashion
