Louis Vuitton / Marc Jacobs: In Association with the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

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This fascinating publication presents the roles two men have played in turning a small workshop in nineteenth-century Paris into one of the vital successful and recognized brands on this planet. 

Known for both craftsmanship and should-have high design, Louis Vuitton the luxury house was once started by its eponymous founder in 1854. The first half of this publication traces the innovations by Vuitton, who turned the little-known guild profession of emballeur (packer) into the foremost luxury trunk maker in Paris, with a clientele that included in his lifetime the French nobility in addition to the elite of a prosperous empire. Prime and never-before-seen examples of Vuitton’s craftsmanship, in conjunction with the fashion that went into them, are the highlights of these chapters. The second one half of the book examines the role of Marc Jacobs as Louis Vuitton’s creative director (since 1997), who took the Louis Vuitton house into a new era with a series of collaborations with artists and designers—such as Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, and Stephen Sprouse—in addition to designing a line of highly successful and desired clothing for the company.

By examining two divergent but ceaselessly similar careers one hundred years apart, Louis Vuitton / Marc Jacobs isn’t just a layered study of the evolution of a luxury brand up to now 150 years but also a celebration of technical and design innovations in the new century.

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