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With its City Guide and Fashion Eye series, Louis Vuitton explores photographic creation while celebrating the art of travel. Both mirroring trends and setting the standard, with great attention to cosmopolitan transformation, the Louis Vuitton City Guide has explored the most magnetic metropoles for nearly twenty years. Today thirty cities have been revealed through unexpected perspectives on fashion, design, well‑being, contemporary art, gastronomy and culture. Original photographs illustrate the Louis Vuitton City Guide, a vision entrusted to the photography collective Tendance Floue, who reinforce the singular point of view represented in these tomes.

During Paris Photo, the digital version of the Paris City Guide is available for free on the App Store. With Fashion Eye, its series of photography books, Louis Vuitton evokes a city, a region or a country, seen through the eyes of a fashion photographer.

Fashion Eye creates an unprecedented dialogue between emerging talents, seasoned photographers and fashion photography legends.

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The exhibit will trace more than a century and a half of fashion, from 1870 to the present, along a disruptive timeline, as part of the Museum’s 150th-anniversary celebration. Employing philosopher Henri Bergson’s concept of la durée—time that flows, accumulates, and is indivisible—the exhibition will explore how clothes generate temporal associations that conflate the past, present, and future. The exhibition is made possible by Louis Vuitton, with additional support provided by Condé Nast.

In celebration of the opening, The Costume Institute Benefit, also known as The Met Gala, will take place on Monday, May 4, 2020.  Louis Vuitton’s Artistic Director Nicolas Ghesquière will co-chair the event along with Emma Stone, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Meryl Streep, and Anna Wintour.

Personalisation has been an integral part of Louis Vuitton's heritage since it was founded in 1854. For an even more exclusive offering, items crafted in an exotic skin may now also be customised. The service offers a selection of different bags and small leather goods, with the option of choosing the colour from a palette of matte and shiny shades, along with the metal hardware and lining. A customisable patch (bag) or hot stamping (small leather goods) may also be added to create a unique product. Last but not least, true connoisseurs can enjoy a premium offering, with a choice between three crocodilian species: Alligator, Niloticus and Porosus.

This exclusive personalisation service creates an exceptional item that is sure to delight collectors. It is available in Louis Vuitton stores. You may also contact our Client Services for more details.

Composed in Grasse by the Master Perfumer Jacques Cavallier Belletrud, their fragrances immediately transport the senses. Like an olfactory snapshot, each one captures the atmosphere of an inspiring setting and brings it into the home. There, it opens a window onto a singular, exotic world, blurring the lines between interior and exterior, between here and elsewhere. Taking off is merely a matter of lighting the wick and closing one’s eyes. Nestled in daring ceramic containers designed by Marc Newson and crafted in Louis Vuitton's workshops, the candles feature a natural leather handle, an emblematic signature of the Maison, that  gives them a pure and nomadic character. 

Launched in 2018, the Louis Vuitton collection of scented candles now comprises six creations that are like so many getaways to savor right at home. Following L’Air du Jardin, Île Blanche, Feuilles d’Or and Dehors Il Neige, it has expanded to include En Mai, a bucolic and spring-like fragrance, and Écorce Rousse, a powerful pairing of leather and wood inspired by the atelier of Asnières.

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We wish to share with you a message from Michael Burke: “This morning, we all share the same grief. Patrick-Louis was an emblematic figure of the Vuitton family and of our House. My thoughts are with his friends and family, in particular his sons Pierre-Louis and Benoît-Louis, who work beside us, as well as his grandchildren. On behalf of all the teams, we send them our support."

Patrick-Louis followed the family tradition by joining the House in 1973 as carpenter craftsman. After a lifetime of work dedicated to excellence and creativity, he acquired a perfect expertise of our savoir-faire, invented and produced hundreds of extraordinary trunks that carry on our legacy of the Art of Travel. Patrick-Louis possessed an avant-garde and modern spirit, along with a “strong-tempered personality from the Jura” a reference he often enjoyed using to describe himself. He always knew how to nourish the House’s heritage and to give vision for the future. “Savoir-faire can only exist if it is transmitted…” was one of his favorite expressions. Patrick-Louis will be heavily missed, especially at Asnières, in the Special Orders workshop, where the emotions of the teams who worked side-by-side with him are deeply felt.