Lea Seydoux Visits Marilyn Monroe in Bed for Louis Vuitton Capucines Bag by Steven Meisel

Actor Lea Seydoux should have Marilyn Monroe living in her head by now. Fresh off her Vogue Paris December fashion shoot where she channeled Marilyn Monroe in images by Alasdair McLellan, the Bond girl revisits Marilyn for Louis Vuitton handbags.

In the Steven Meisel campaign for Vuitton’s Capucines handbag, Seydoux is alone in bed — with her Capucines bag — styled by Marie-Amélie Sauvé. Vuitton women’s Nicolas Ghesquière acts as art director on the shoot that channels portraits by Eve Arnold. of a naked Monroe rolling in bed. The images also remind us of ‘The Last Sitting,’ a famous photo shoot with Bert Stern. Six weeks later, Monroe was found dead on August 4, 1962 in her Brentwood home.

A Vuitton spokeswoman said that while Monroe was “an everlasting source of inspiration,” the Capucines campaign images also refer to the fantasy of “Bond girls.” Seydoux is set to reprise her role as Madeleine Swann opposite Daniel Craig in the upcoming James Bond film “No Time to Die.”

AOC can’t count the number of times we’ve written about the film’s postponements due to COVID-19. . Currently, ‘No Time to Die’, the 25th installment in the Bond franchise has an October 8 release date, moving from it’s last date of April 2.