A brand new undertaking from Louis Vuitton hones in on the home’s emblematic monogram canvas – particularly, the repeating floral motif which accompanies the signature ‘LV’.
Reinterpreted by 5 artists, the flower – imagined in a collection of vivid illustrations – turns into the centrepiece of a vibrant collection of ‘carré’ scarves, a part of a seamless undertaking to make use of the silk sq. as an inventive canvas which started within the Eighties (then, the gathering was titled ‘The Silk Street’). Right here, every scarf is made and printed within the historic mills of Como, Italy in a meticulous course of utilizing a number of layers of color to recreate the intricate designs.
Louis Vuitton’s vibrant ‘LV Artwork Silk Squares’
The complete assortment of ‘LV Artwork Silk Squares’
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Louis Vuitton)
This time, the roster features a vibrant line-up of artists which contains pixel-art collective eBoy, artist-publisher duo Icinori, graphic novelist Nicolas de Crécy, comedian artist Thomas Ott and illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti.
The latter, who hails from Italy, brings his vivid, dreamlike imaginative and prescient to the carré, which options an iris drawn from a design he found on an Artwork Nouveau stained-glass window in the home’s historic atelier in Asnières, north-west of Paris. With it, he weaves a line between previous and current – a central tenet of Louis Vuitton, which has lengthy revelled in its wealthy, near-two-century-old historical past.
This text seems within the November 2024 situation of Wallpaper* , obtainable in print on worldwide newsstands, on the Wallpaper* app on Apple iOS, and to subscribers of Apple Information +. Subscribe to Wallpaper* at present.
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