Mixed Bag
words Ian Lee
we’re talking about the ArtyCapucines Collection – where six
contemporary artists funk up Louis Vuitton’s six-year-old top handle
No stranger to artist collaborations, Louis Vuitton invited six international artists – Sam Falls, Urs Fischer,
Nicholas Hlobo, Alex Israel, Tschabalala Self, and Jonas Wood – to give its contemporary classic accessory, the
structured Capucine bags, new life. Israel’s, for instance, features a colour wave design using a multitude of pop
hues, which required the house’s atelier to exercise precise colour dyeing. Fischer’s quirky and very memorable
piece, on the other hand, dangles removable, hand-made “fruits” and “vegetables”. And then there are the
mother-of-pearl details on Falls’ Capucines, the leather patterns of Hlobo’s and Tschabalala’s creations, and
the 3D embroidery of Wood’s piece. Each model has been released in a limited and numbered edition of 300.