If you like historical past, vogue historical past, that’s, the world of luxurious, and exhibitions which let you see distinctive items that make up a model, look no additional than SEE LV, Louis Vuitton’s travelling exhibition.
I used to be fortunate sufficient to get a firsthand take a look at the exhibition at its newest cease in Sydney, Australia.
The exhibition area with a digital background. Photo: Louis VuittonLouis Vuitton is without doubt one of the high luxurious manufacturers in the world and recognized for its craftsmanship, innovation and magnificence.
The model has a protracted historical past of showcasing distinctive items since 1854, transferring from trunks and baggage to garments, equipment and residential decor.
It made its first cease in Wuhan, China with a worldwide inauguration in 2020, earlier than transferring on to Hangzhou, Dubai and Tokyo.
Sydney, recognized for its landmarks just like the Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Bondi Beach, is the most important capital metropolis in Australia, a melting pot of cultures and the proper cease for 2022.
For the SEE LV exhibition, the venue itself was superb – at First Fleet Park, The Rocks – overlooking the Sydney Opera House and held in a specifically designed area that appears like a protracted field.
In shades of blue, it had a digital trying background with the identify Louis Vuitton in the center and SEE LV on the high and sides. The doorway was hidden, so you actually needed to know the place it was to get in.
Using immersive and interactive digital experiences (therefore the sample of the venue), there was a mixture of archival objects from the Maison’s heritage assortment together with the latest creations divided into 5 universes.
Upon coming into the exhibition, you can be greeted by Australia’s well-known animal, the kangaroo together with a child in its pouch fabricated from LV monogram baggage!
Photo: Louis Vuitton
Designed by artist Billie Achilleos, it was actually one thing else because the kangaroo regarded real looking regardless of being made of luggage.
The first cease is with the model’s founder, Monsieur Louis Vuitton himself. Called “Finding Louis”, it includes a portrait of him as a 20-year-old utilizing synthetic intelligence created by artist Refik Anadol. No one is aware of what he regarded like at that age so this uncommon portrait was a pleasant visible contact.
Photo: Louis Vuitton
Moving on to the second universe, this part could be a favorite of vogue fans because it includes a reverse-chronology number of males’s and girls’s ready-to-wear items.
This is the place you see how the designers, ranging from Marc Jacobs, Nicolas Ghesquiere, Kim Jones to its late inventive director, Virgil Abloh, interpreted the Maison’s heritage and craftsmanship into their collections.
Photo: Louis Vuitton
The Louis Vuitton vogue division was established in 1995, although its roots go method again to 1854 when Louis started packing his shoppers’ high fashion clothes like the gorgeous nineteenth century archival robe on show subsequent to a historic 1906 trunk.
And it wouldn’t be Louis Vuitton with out its iconic baggage that are proven towards a backdrop that includes photographs of movie star buddies like Miranda Kerr, Jennifer Connelly, Samara Weaving, Kendall Jenner and Hugh Jackman.
If you’re a bag lover, the third universe could be your favorite half. Bags have been a part of the model’s DNA for the reason that late Eighteen Nineties the place it was initially created in leather-based to accompany small items or folded in exhausting sided baggage.
The wall options how the shapes of the baggage proceed to encourage via time. You can see each outdated and new baggage grouped by household and in chronological order.
One piece is a flat trunk from 1906 with the patented 5-way unpickable lock in Monogram canvas.
Others embrace icons and inventive collaborations in the recognisable shapes – Keepall, Speedy, Steamer and Alma amongst others.
Photo: Louis Vuitton
Here you can find the Steamer with signature chain particulars designed by Virgil Abloh for the Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2019 assortment, the place he made his debut.
Then there’s a collaboration with Atelier Fornasetti for the Petite Boite Chapeau from the Autumn/Winter 2021 ladies’s assortment. The Archittetura leather-based design combines the Monogram with Palladian architectural motifs.
Let’s not neglect the well-known Keepalls which all the time had a enjoyable factor to it with inventive collaborations with Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami and Yayoi Kusama.
Another piece is the hybrid leather-based items design impressed by trunk conventions, on the border between exhausting and tender. Called a Soft Trunk, it was created by Abloh for his very first assortment.
The Capucines, a logo of timeless class and artisanal excellence was named after rue Neuve-des-Capucines in Paris the place Louis Vuitton opened his first retailer in 1854.
You will be capable of see two Capucines designed by artists Vik Muniz and Zeng Fanzhi as a part of the Louis Vuitton Artycapucines assortment.
If you thought the model was solely about garments and footwear, suppose once more because it has life-style objects and residential furnishings as properly.
In the fourth universe referred to as the Evolution Gallery, there are a number of objects like skateboard designed in collaboration with Stephen Sprouse (2009) and the Lounge Chair by Marcel Wanders Studio (2016).
Photo: Louis Vuitton
The historical past of Louis Vuitton is wrapped up in the artwork of journey and the model has been there in the beginning from steamer ships to the skateboard and cars to new city mobilities.
A Marc Jacobs outfit from the Spring/Summer 2011 assortment displayed inside a 1925 Wardrobe trunk. Photo: Louis VuittonJourney throughout the centuries and see how the Maison’s elegant and ingenious options have developed in the transportation space, from boat, rail, automotive, airplane and extra.
In this part you can find a number of the most original innovations just like the Transformable raincoat-tent from Abloh’s Louis Vuitton 2054 assortment, an exploration impressed look from Nicolas Ghesquiere’s Spring/Summer 2021 assortment and an outfit from Marc Jacobs’ Spring/Summer 2011 assortment displayed inside a 1925 Wardrobe trunk.
The final universe is the Around Monogram Library. The Monogram was invented in 1896 by Georges Vuitton as an homage to his father, Louis.
It options an interactive digital Monogram wall that strikes and adjustments together with the particular person viewing it.
The Monogram interactive wall which adjustments and in addition strikes when somebody is in entrance of it. Photo: Louis Vuitton
And as we all know immediately, the Monogram continues to be probably the most recognisable icon of Maison Louis Vuitton and is reinterpreted consistently by the model’s inventive administrators.
Finally there’s a reward store the place you should buy varied books from the journey guides to books on the model’s heritage and craftsmanship, and cute objects just like the Vivienne musical field.
The SEE LV SYDNEY exhibition is situated at First Fleet Park, The Rocks, NSW 2000.
The exhibition will run till Dec 11, 2022.
