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Louis Vuitton city bags : a natural history

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Louis Vuitton city bags : a natural history / Jean-Claude Kaufmann, Ian Luna, Florence Müller, Mariko Nishitani, Colombe Pringle and Deyan Sudjic ; contributions by Rei Kawakubo, Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami.

Author

Kaufmann, Jean-Claude

Publication

New York, NY : Rizzoli International Publications, [2013]
©2013

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Description

397 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm

Summary

"This volume is an unprecedented history of Louis Vuitton's women's bags, the most coveted line of accessories in women's fashion. At the heart of Louis Vuitton are its City Bags, a range of women's bags that dates back to the turn of the twentieth century. Featuring the trademark monograms of the house, the City Bag story began with the Steamer, a resort bag designed in 1901 to be packed inside a much larger steamer trunk. These bags have in a hundred years formally diversified into a dizzying array of handbags for every conceivable function demanded by the modern woman. Profoundly influential, City Bags are now known to millions by their descriptive names (Keepall, Bucket, Papillon, Alma, Locket, Noe, Speedy) and are still evolving into more fantastical forms. Lavishly illustrated with new and archival photography, historical graphics, landmark editorials, and ad campaigns, the volume traces the history of these specific bag families, and examines the earliest specimens and today's most sought-after collectibles, including Vuitton's collaborations with Takashi Murakami, Stephen Sprouse, Richard Prince, Yayoi Kusama, and Rei Kawakubo and one-off projects by Zaha Hadid, Shigeru Ban, Vivienne Westwood, Helmut Lang, Andrée Putman, and of course, Marc Jacobs."--Amazon.com.

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Some pages are folded.

Contents

Part I. Genesis. In the beginning / essay by Florence Müller ; Common ancestors: the vanity, the alzer, the steamer & the keepall ; The heart of the self: the bag and personal identity / essay by Jean-Claude Kaufmann -- Part II. Families. Profiles / by Columbe Pringle ; Mutagenesis / essay by Ian Luna ; CdG x LV / by Rei Kawakubo ; A conversation with Takashi Murakami / with Mariko Nishitani ; Invasive species: Louis Vuitton in Japan / essay by Mariko Nishitani -- Part III. Codes. Honest error / essay by Deyan Sudjic ; Sites of manufacture, materials & processes ; Idiomatic expressions and common proverbs.

Call Number

JQG 14-184

ISBN

9780847840878
0847840875

LCCN

2013944527

OCLC

832278505

Author

Kaufmann, Jean-Claude, author.

Title

Publisher

New York, NY : Rizzoli International Publications, [2013]

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Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Luna, Ian, author.

Müller, Florence, 1957- author.

Nishitani, Mariko, author.

Pringle, Colombe, author.

Sudjic, Deyan, author.

Kawakubo, Rei, 1942- author.

Kusama, Yayoi, interviewee.

Murakami, Takashi, 1962- interviewee.

Research Call Number

JQG 14-184

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