Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture Limited Louis Vuitton EditionA critical selection of the creative exchanges forged between Louis Vuitton and a growing number of designers from the worlds of art, architecture, design, photography and fashion. 400 pages illustrated with 400 color documents!
Deluxe edition designed by Takashi Murakami:
Hardcover with a "LV with Hands" jacket and
a plexiglass slipcase engraved with Damier pattern.
On sale exclusively in Louis Vuitton’s storesand on louisvuitton.comPublication date: September 1st 2009
Price: US$130, 125€, £90, ¥17,000
Format: 24 x 31cm
3 leaflets 91/2" x 121/4"
404 pages, 400 illustrations
BOOKSTORE EDITIONS
Rizzoli USA, English version
Editions de La Martinière, French version
Rizzoli Italia, Italian version
Available in bookstoreslink
I really like the idea of QR codes. For those of you who don't have an idea what they are, Hypebeast gave a pretty good definition. "Referred to as the barcode of the future, a QR Code (Quick Response Code) is a matrix code which allows its contents to be decoded at high speed." So in layman's terms, QR codes are a faster way to ring up and track merchandise. So why not embrace this new found technology as art? Well that is exactly what Takashi Murakami did and followed in hot pursuit by Marc Jacobs, with his version tittled “Miss Marc”. Just another way to incorporate fast paced marketing into something that is trivial to an American consumer, yet and exciting breakthrough to the Japanese market. Oh, how our worlds are different.
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