HTSI Magazine Celebrates Nicolas Ghesquière and 10 Years at Louis Vuitton

HTSI Magazine Celebrates Nicolas Ghesquière and 10 Years at Louis Vuitton

As Louis Vuitton artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière [IG] celebrates his 10-year anniversary with the brand, as well as the renewal of his contract for another five years, HTSI Magazine [IG] launches a huge celebration around the designer, the label and the muses.

Ethan James Green photographed Ghesquière himself for a HTSI [Financial Times How to Spend It] interview with the designer ‘First, we have fun’: Nicolas Ghesquière on a decade at Louis Vuitton.

Bibi Cornejo Borthwick with WeFolk [IG] agency photographs the 10 models, talents and ambassadors for these remaining images, styled by Isabelle Kountoure.

Models and talents expand on HTSI’s IG comments quoted on AOC in a separate online article. They appear in chronological order of their first project with Nicolas Ghesquire for Louis Vuitton.

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Louis Vuitton Fall 2023 Women's Fashion Campaign in Paris by Ethan James Green

Louis Vuitton Fall 2023 Women's Fashion Campaign in Paris by Ethan James Green

Indian actress Deepika Padukone reclines against Palais Galliera in a lightweight dress and cropped denim jacket, clutching Louis Vuitton's GO-14 handbag. ‘Squid Game’ star Jung Ho-Yeon rides a bike around Paris in a bedazzled top and straight-cut denim, slinging the lattice-printed bag over her shoulder on Pont Alexandre III. Finally, Léa Seydoux and Elaine Zhong complete the campaign and they love their Capucines.

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama Taps Cate Blanchett & Justin Timberlake + 4 | May 2023 New York Opening Awaits

Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama Taps Cate Blanchett & Justin Timberlake + 4 | May 2023 New York Opening Awaits

Louis Vuitton taps six new talents and image-makers to its second drop in the Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama 2023 collaboration.

Mega stars Australian actor Cate Blanchett and Amercan music artist Justin Timberlake, a ‘friend of the house’ but not an ambassador, are joined by South Korean actor HoYeon Jung, French actor Lea Seydoux, tennis pro Naomi Osaka and Chinese actor Zhou Congyu.

Photographer Steven Meisel is again behind the lens with Carine Roitfeld in charge of styling. Creative Director Ferdinando Verderi worked with makeup artist Pat McGrath to create henna-like tattoos on the faces and bodies of the talents that twin the artworks decorating their corresponding Capucines and Monogram handbags.

Yayoi Kusama will open her largest exhibition in New York on May 12. Her exhibition, titled “I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers,” will include new paintings, sculptures featuring her signature flower and pumpkin motifs and a new Infinity Mirrored Room.

David Zwirner’s West 19th and West 20th street galleries will host the event.

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Louis Vuitton SS2023 Capucine Campaign Teaches Us Kintsugi with Lea Seydoux

Louis Vuitton SS2023 Capucine Campaign Teaches Us Kintsugi with Lea Seydoux

Louis Vuitton’s Capucine bag heads into its second decade, showcased for Spring/Summer 2023 by maison ambassador Lea Seydoux.

In this moment of so many challenges central to our lives, the Spring 2023 Capucine bag with a handle made using the ancient Japanese Kintsugi technique may be the most special.

Seriously, can the handle of a Louis Vuitton Capucine bag teach us a life lesson?

In an throwaway, one and done, age of mass production and reckless disposal, ‘kintsugi’ is not only focused on repairing our favorite chipped vessels.

Now we learn that ‘kintsugi’ is also a way of crafting — even mending — our lives. It’s very Zen and challenges humans to consider the contemplation of imperfection, as well as the constant flux and impermanence of all things.

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Léa Seydoux Soft Sells Louis Vuitton Capucines Bag, Spell on You LV Fragrance

Léa Seydoux Soft Sells Louis Vuitton Capucines Bag, Spell on You LV Fragrance

Exuding the strength of character of the Louis Vuitton woman, House Ambassador Léa Seydoux showcases the Maison’s iconic Capucines bag. One of the Maison’s most sophisticated designs, the “emblematic bag is made to endure time, to become a soulful reflection of the woman whose life it accompanies.”

Shot by Steven Meisel, Seydous poses at the Fondation Louis Vuitton near artwork by Gerhard Richter. Styling by Marie-Amélie Sauvé, with art direction by Jason Duzansky; and set design by Mary Howard.

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Nicolas Ghesquière Turns Photographer for Louis Vuitton Fall 2020 Campaign

Nicolas Ghesquière Turns Photographer for Louis Vuitton Fall 2020 Campaign

Louis Vuitton’s Creative Director Nicolas Ghesquière steps into a new role as photographer of the luxury brand’s fall 2020 campaign. Twenty of the designer’s friends and muses posed at his home on the Quai Voltaire, with stylist Marie-Amélie Sauvé choosing one of Vuitton’s iconic bags: the Capucines, the Twist, the Pont 9 and the Dauphine.

The first release lineup includes: Akon Changkou, Dina Asher-Smith, Léa Seydoux, Lous and the Yakuza, Marina Foïs, Miriam de Vinzelle, Noémie Merlant, Sora Choi and Stacy Martin

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