nicolas ghesquière refreshes historic louis vuitton trunk design

nicolas ghesquière refreshes historic louis vuitton trunk design
photo by tommy ton / courtesy of louis vuitton

louis vuitton‘s artistic director of women’s collections nicolas ghesquière refreshes the relationship between the fashion house’s heritage of traditional trunk design for the women’s fall 2015 collection. the hard handbags are a riff on the time-honored cuboid containers most commonly used for holding clothes and personal belongings for travel, scaled down from over-sized luggage cases to portable carry-ons. 

vuitton’s luxury handbag collection for 2015 sources everything from an auto trunk for citroën and albert kahn’s photographer’s case, to a tweed vanity container and louis vuitton’s ‘unpickable’ lock and key design. new materials, patterns and motifs add a twist on the classic, with malletage metallics and plexiglass pouches appearing alongside much-adored monogram prints.

a personalized silver hand trunk on the runway of the women’s fall 2015 collection
photo by tommy ton / courtesy of louis vuitton

a textured sliver bag is lined with a shiny gold trim
photo by tommy ton / courtesy of louis vuitton

a transparent plexiglass trunk
photo by tommy ton / courtesy of louis vuitton

 

A video posted by Louis Vuitton Official (@louisvuitton) on Mar 18, 2015 at 10:24am PDT

 
a textured silver handbag, personalized with initials
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a twist on the fashion house’s malletage pattern in metallic
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the classic LV monogrammed print adopted to fit the case
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a beige bag is sliced by a white line and initials
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rosegold metallic is lined with pure gold-colored trim details
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A video posted by Louis Vuitton Official (@louisvuitton) on Mar 19, 2015 at 10:43am PDT