- Accompanies a major double exhibition on Jean-Michel Basquiat and Egon Schiele - two artists that died too young but created masses of work over the course of a decade - at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, from 3rd October 2018 to 4th January 2019
- Comprises drawings, objects and paintings, gathered from private collections and museums all over the world

In 2018 the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, is hosting exhibitions on two of the greatest artists of the 20th century - Egon Schiele, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Both exhibitions have the same curator, and are taking place at the same time. The shows illustrate exactly what it is that linked the two artists: line, and the use of expressive force.

This, the catalogue of the Basquiat exhibition, labelled "the definitive exhibition" by its curator, brings together 120 of the artist's most important masterpieces, sourced from international museums and private collections. With the astonishing radicalness of his artistic practice, Basquiat renewed the concept of art with enduring impact. This Basquiat retrospective centres on the idea of Basquiat's unique energetic line, his use of words, symbols, and how he integrates collage in his paintings, sculptures, objects, and large-scale drawings.

The catalogue includes texts by great authors, including Paul Schimmel who tells of his meeting with Basquiat in California; Francesco Pellizzi who knew Basquiat well and has not written about him for a long time; and Okwui Enwezor who talks about the Afro-American identity.

About the Author:

Dieter Buchhart is a curator and art theorist based in Vienna. He has PhD degrees in art history and restoration (science). He has curated many exhibitions in renowned international museums and art spaces, and was co-curator of the Barbican's exhibition, Basquiat: Boom for Real (21 September 2017-28 January 2018).

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Пролистать книгу Jean-Michel Basquiat: Foundation Louis Vuitton

A complete and unrivalled overview of the collections of one of the world’s top fashion houses through original catwalk photography

Founded as a luxury leather goods house in 1854, Louis Vuitton was for many decades one of the world’s leading trunk and accessories makers. It was after launching its first fashion collections in 1998, however, that the house reached unprecedented global fame, and pioneered high-profile collaborations with artists such as Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami and Stephen Sprouse.

This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by brief biographical profiles of Marc Jacobs, the first creative director (1998–2014), and Nicolas Ghesquière, who helms the brand today, before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images. Showcasing hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs – and, of course, the top fashion models who wore them on the runway, from Naomi Campbell and Gisele to Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.

Contents List:

• Introduction
• The Collections: Louis Vuitton by Marc Jacobs, 1998–2014
• Louis Vuitton by Nicolas Ghesquière, 2014–2018

About the Author:

Jo Ellison is Fashion Editor at the Financial Times and author of Vogue: The Gown.

Louise Rytter is a freelance fashion curator, writer and online editor. She is Content Editor for the Google Arts & Culture ‘We Wear Culture’ project and was previously Assistant Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Книга «Louis Vuitton Catwalk: The Complete Fashion Collections» –  это непревзойденный обзор одного из лучших модных домов мира - Louis Vuitton, через оригинальные подиумные фотографии.

Компания LouisVuitton была основана в 1854 году, как роскошный дом кожгалантереи. В течении многих десятилетий она была одной из ведущих мировых производителей сумок и аксессуаров. Однако, после запуска первых коллекций одежды в 1998 году, дом достиг беспрецедентной мировой известности и стал первооткрывателем в сотрудничестве с такими артистами, как Ричард Принс, Такаши Мураками и Стивеном Спроусом.

«Louis Vuitton Catwalk: The Complete Fashion Collections» начинается с краткой истории дома, за которой следуют биографии Марка Джейкобса – первого креативного директора (1998-2014), и Николя Гескьера, который стоит во главе бренда на сегодняшний день. Затем начинается увлекательное исследование самих коллекций, в хронологическом порядке. Каждая коллекция представлена коротким описанием, полностью раскрывающим ее вклад в становление бренда и основные моменты. Информация подкрепляется фотографиями с подиума, которые показывают множество впечатляюще красивых моделей одежды, аксессуаров, образов и декораций. И, конечно же, знаменитых топ-моделей, которые, в разное время, демонстрировали одежду LouisVuitton, таких как: Наоми Кэмпбелл, Жизель, КейтМосс, Кара Деленвиль. Завершает произведение обширный справочник.

Содержание:

• Вступление;

• Коллекции: LouisVuitton от Marc Jacobs, 1998–2014;

• Louis Vuitton Николаса Гескьера, 2014–2018.

Об авторе:

Джо Эллисон - модный редактор в Financial Times и автор «Vogue: The Gown».

Луиза Риттер – независимый модный куратор, писатель и онлайн-редактор. Она является редактором контента для проекта Google «Искусство и культура», «Мы носим культуру» и ранее была помощником куратора в музее Victoriaand Albert Museum.

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Louis Vuitton, the global luxury fashion house, and world-famous artist Yayoi Kusama partner again, and in the storied history of the brand’s epic collaborations with artists, this is the most ambitious to date.

In this important volume about this powerhouse collaboration, artwork by trailblazing artist Yayoi Kusama is featured alongside the groundbreaking fashion collection she designed with Louis Vuitton, and is organized around the seminal artistic themes that inspired the project.

Edited by Ferdinando Verdi and Isabel Venero, the volume includes contributions from renowned experts in both fashion and art, including writer Jo-Ann Furniss who explores the collaboration, designer Marc Jacobs who initiated the house’s relationship with Kusama, and curators Mika Yoshitake and Philip Larratt-Smith, both of whom have organized important exhibitions on the artist’s work. And Hans Ulrich Obrist, the renowned curator and Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries, London, Hans Ulrich Obrist talks with longtime Kusama expert Akira Tatehata.  

In the spirit of this iconic partnership and with a nod to the popular fascination with Kusama, the book includes musings from some of the most important contemporary artists and musicians working today — including Arca, Katherine Bradford, Anne Imhoff, Ryan McNamara, Raúl de Nieves, Ryan Trecartin, Nora Turato, and Jacolby Satterwhite — talking about Kusama’s impact and her extraordinary ability to build fantastical worlds through her signature polka dots and mirror balls, which are joyful representations of her deeply thoughtful philosophy about art and the universe.

About the Authors:

Jo-Ann Furniss is an editor, creative director, and writer. She was the editor-in-chief of Arena Homme+ from 2004 to 2011, and writes regularly for I-D, The Face, and AnOther Magazine, as well as the New York Times. Mika Yoshitake, PhD, is an independent curator with expertise in postwar Japanese art. She received her MA and PhD in Art History from UCLA.

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Пролистать книгу Yayoi Kusama x Louis Vuitton: Creating Infinity​ на сайте издательства.

The definitive work on the collaborations between Louis Vuitton and artists, designers, architects, and photographers. This newly revised and updated edition brings the previous book up to the present, now celebrating the most recent and inspiring collaborations with Nicolas Ghesquière, Frank Gehry, Yayoi Kusama, and Steven Meisel, among others.

The more than eighty collaborators featured in this book comprise an A to Z of Vuitton’s creative collaborations, especially from the last decade, with significant chapters devoted to the work of Nicolas Ghesquière, Marc Jacobs, Takashi Murakami and other key collaborators. Never forgetting the long tradition of the house, the period covered by the book — from the late 1990s through the present day — will describe the role that Louis Vuitton is playing in a crucial moment in global fashion.
Now with 536 pages, this edition features more than 130 pages of stunning new imagery that showcases the increasingly symbiotic relationship between fashion, art, and design.

About the Author:

Valerie Steele is a fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Glenn O’Brien is an author and essayist based in New York. Jill Gasparina is an art curator, theoretician, and writer based in Paris. Ian Luna is a writer based in New York and the author of several books on fashion design, architecture, and urbanism, including Louis Vuitton: Architecture & Interiors. 

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Пролистать книгу Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation: New Art, Fashion and Architecture

The extraordinary collection of Gaston-Louis Vuitton, grandson of Louis Vuitton, the founder of one of the world’s most famous luxury brands

A collector since his childhood, Gaston-Louis Vuitton (1883–1970) accumulated thousands of objects over his lifetime. His wide interests and voracious curiosity were intimately bound up with the future of the family business and with travel. In addition to forming his own collection of trunks – his primary motivation and the one he announced publicly – Gaston-Louis’s roving eye lit upon rare antique travel articles, locks, hand tools, perfume bottles, tribal arts, walking sticks, vintage children’s toys, books, hotel labels, printed monograms and other typographical rarities. Together they form a rich personal evocation of curiosités industrielles, or curiosities of the trade, as he liked to call them.

This collection will capture the imagination of anyone inspired by bizarre and eclectic curiosities, or those with an interest in the cultural taste of someone who lived through the height of the Art Deco period – indeed, someone whose life was defined by the rigours and rewards of world travel.

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. 

Louis Vuitton: City Bags is an ambitious volume on the creation and cultivation of a cultural phenomenon.

About the Authors:

Marc Jacobs is the creative director for Louis Vuitton and designer for the Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs lines. Florence Müller is a curator, fashion historian, and associate professor at the Institut Français de la Mode. Takashi Murakami is an artist based in New York and Tokyo.

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Пролистать книгу Louis Vuitton: City Bags: A Natural History

When Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury was published in 2004, the book was the first to describe the dramatic rise of the world’s finest luxury company. Written with full access to the company’s archives, it demonstrates Louis Vuitton’s passion for fine design with a stunning array of archival art, product designs, and cutting-edge advertising. The company is examined through the lives of its first three leaders - founder Louis (who invented the modern trunk), his son Georges, and his grandson Gaston.

Now with fresh information on subjects such as designs for ready-to-wear clothing, shoes, jewellery, and even automobiles, this new edition includes 20 additional pages and updated material throughout the book, covering the brand’s recent history, with new texts and photographs.

About the Author:

Paul Gerard Pasols is the former director of communications for Louis Vuitton and a longtime consultant to the company. He was editorial director of Louis Vuitton City Guide 2004, New York, which is a finalist in the "best guide" category of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The author of the updated sections is all at once journalist, traveller, and lover of all things beautiful. Pierre Leonforte has been editor in chief of City Guides Louis Vuitton since their creation in 1998. He collaborates on numerous French and Italian publications including Les Echos, Vogue and Maison Francaise. He is also the author of guidebooks and lifestyle books appearing in France, Germany, and Britain.

He is the author of Abrams's Louis Vuitton: 100 Legendary Trunks.

Luxury and art have never been more closely linked than they are in these early years of the twenty-first century.

Virtually all the world’s major luxury houses have associated themselves with contemporary art through sponsorships, commissions, or foundations, and these points of exchange nourish the increasingly symbiotic relationship between fashion, art, and other design disciplines. Of all modern luxury brands, Louis Vuitton can claim to maintain the richest and most varied associations with the world of art. Included in this volume are Louis Vuitton’s important collaborations with an elite group of artists, architects, designers, and photographers, such as Jun Aoki, Shigeru Ban, Vanessa Beecroft, Olafur Eliasson, Zaha Hadid, David LaChapelle, Jean Larivière, Annie Leibovitz, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Stephen Sprouse, James Turrell, Inez Van Lamsweerde, and Vinoodh Matadin. The book is structured as a seductive anthology of the house’s most visible collaborations. Critical essays examine and position Louis Vuitton’s patronage — under the guidance of Artistic Director Marc Jacobs — during one of the most fertile periods of contemporary art and design.

About the Author:

Marc Jacobs is the Creative Director of Louis Vuitton Malletier and the chief designer of Vuitton’s ready-to-wear collections.

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Пролистать книгу Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture

This fascinating publication presents the roles two men have played in turning a small workshop in nineteenth-century Paris into one of the most successful and recognized brands in the world.

Known for both craftsmanship and must-have high design, Louis Vuitton the luxury house was started by its eponymous founder in 1854. The first half of this publication traces the innovations by Vuitton, who turned the little-known guild profession of emballeur (packer) into the foremost luxury trunk maker in Paris, with a clientele that included in his lifetime the French nobility as well as the elite of a prosperous empire. Prime and never-before-seen examples of Vuitton’s craftsmanship, along with the fashion that went into them, are the highlights of these chapters. The second half of the book examines the role of Marc Jacobs as Louis Vuitton’s creative director (since 1997), who took the Louis Vuitton house into a new era with a series of collaborations with artists and designers - such as Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, and Stephen Sprouse - as well as designing a line of highly successful and desired clothing for the company.

By examining two divergent but often similar careers one hundred years apart, Louis Vuitton / Marc Jacobs is not only a layered study of the evolution of a luxury brand in the past 150 years but also a celebration of technical and design innovations in the new century.

About the Author:

Pamela Golbin is the chief curator of twentieth-century and contemporary fashion and textiles at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris. She is the author of Madeleine Vionnet and Valentino: Themes and Variations.

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Пролистать книгу Louis Vuitton / Marc Jacobs: In Association with the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

100 malles de legende Louis Vuitton

"Покажи мне твой багаж, и я скажу тебе, кто ты". Этот рекламный слоган 1921 г. очень верно ухватывает суть тех интимных взаимоотношений, которые складываются у каждого путешественника с чемоданами и кофрами - его спутниками и компаньонами. От легендарных экспрессов до трансатлантических судов, от автомобилей до первых летательных аппаратов - кофры Louis Vuitton пересекали время и границы. С 1854 года Луи Вю-иттон, "изготовитель сундуков, кофров и упаковки", предлагает современные предметы багажа, сочетающие практичность и элегантность, идеально приспособленные к новым видам транспорта и вызванным ими изменениям в жизни. С тех же самых пор Модный дом Louis Vuitton экипирует как путешественников и искателей приключений, так и великих мира сего, принцев, денди, законодателей моды, артистов, а также многих других. Махараджа Бароды, Саворньян де Бразза, Дуглас Фэрбенкс, Эрнест Хемингуэй, Жанна Ланвэн, а также Дэмиен Херст и Шерон Стоун путешествуют с багажом Louis Vuitton.

В этом эксклюзивном издании с предисловием Патрика Луи Вюиттона на основании более чем 800 документов описаны самые красивые и самые необычные изделия Дома. Сундук-кровать, сундук-гардероб, шкатулка для чая, несессер с туалетными принадлежностями, цирковой сундук, сундук-библиотека или ящичек для икры - столько невероятных вещей, за которыми угадываются захватывающие приключения их владельцев. Путеводитель по технике изготовления кофров - библия для мастеров этого ремесла - раскрывает секреты производства. Эта книга-итог показывает, что от первых сундуков с выпуклой крышкой до последних моделей, изготовляемых в мастерской в Аньере в наши дни, Louis Vuitton всегда воодушевляла одна идея - увековечить свое мастерство и превратить искусство путешествовать в искусство жить.

A landmark fashion photography monograph chronicling the most famous and sought-after brand in the world

Since the 1920s, the images of Louis Vuitton-both advertising and editorial-have drawn the world into its ethereal, luxurious identity and have changed the way we see fashion, travel, art, and culture. These captivating touchstones of fashion photography have served as a glamorous, romantic porthole to one of the world's most prestigious luxury brands.

Louis Vuitton Fashion Photography is an unprecedented visual history of the company, seen through its presence in photographs.

This exceptional album features over two hundred images by the most important modern and contemporary photographers, including David Bailey, Henry Clarke, Patrick Demarchelier, Karl Lagerfeld, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, David Sims, Bert Stern, Juergen Teller, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber.

This book features images from iconic Vuitton advertising campaigns from the '20s through to the present, with magazine editorials from publications including Vogue, L'Officiel, Numero, V, Harper's Bazaar, Interview, W, Egoiste, Love, and Pop.

This elegantly designed mix creates a unique and exciting expression of the brand and its interpretation by top stylists and fashion editors.

Chronicling the style, history, and exquisite fashion through lavish, evocative photography, this volume is an absolute essential for lovers of fashion, art, and photography.

Trains and steamships transformed transportation in the mid-19th century and opened the world to a new breed of traveller. Louis Vuitton understood the need for more practical luggage, and strove to create products that were adaptable to all situations - and the travel trunk was born.

Authors Pierre Léonforte and Éric Pujalet-Plaà curate 100 of the finest trunks the Louis Vuitton company has produced on commission, including boxes made for movie stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sharon Stone and couturiers from Jeanne Lanvin to Karl Lagerfeld, as well as cases designed for Ernest Hemingway, Leopold Stokowski, and Damien Hirst. Illustrated with 600 images taken from the Louis Vuitton archives and new photographs made especially for this book, this is the definitive history of personalized objects of both practicality and luxury.

About the authors:

Patrick-Louis Vuitton directs custom workshop production and handles public relations for the company founded by his great-grandfather.

Pierre Léonforte has been contributing to Maison Louis Vuitton for many years and is currently the editor in chief of the City Guide Vuitton series.

Éric Pujalet-Plaà is assistant curator of fashion and textiles at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

An exploration of the dynamic and innovative architecture and interiors commissioned by Louis Vuitton.  A prescient advocate of contemporary interiors and architecture, Louis Vuitton continues to encourage innovation and playfulness in the designs of their retail spaces without losing sight of the essence of luxury central to its identity. This process of designing places to display high-style objects has created a new venue for cutting-edge architecture and transformed city streetscapes.

This exploration of Louis Vuitton’s international stores, as well as industrial sites and unrealized projects, includes interviews with some of today’s most talented architects and designers who discuss the beautiful and complex structures they have produced in collaboration with Louis Vuitton. This book examines the physical aspects of these buildings as well as the ideas that went into their composition.

Acting as both a backdrop for luxurious retail goods and the physical manifestation of the brand, these spaces are a genre unto themselves that invite exploration. With luxurious finishes and unexpected textures, these fantastic buildings represent the intersection of fashion and interior design.  The book includes interviews with Jun Aoki, Peter Marino, Christian de Portzamparc, David McNulty, and Christian Reyne.

About the Authors:

Mohsen Mostafavi is an architect and dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Frederic Edelmann has been the architecture critic for Le Monde since 1977. Ian Luna is an author and editor. Rafael Magrou is an architect, journalist, and curator based in Paris

Книга, сделанная совместно с «Луи Вьюиттон» к 150-летию Дома, рассказывает об истории успеха знаменитой «фабрики моды». Сын плотника Луи Вьюиттон в далеком 1834 году взялся за ремесло сундучника и придумал первый в мире плоский чемодан. Новые виды транспорта: железная дорога, трансатлантические пароходы, автомобили, самолеты – вдохновляли фирму «Луи Вьюиттон» на создание багажа, специально приспособленного для каждого вида путешествия. Тут и чемодан-гардероб, и сумка шофера с отделением для запасного колеса, и чемодан для перевозки велосипедов, и дорожные несессеры на любой вкус. Превосходное качество изделий, собственный стиль сделали фирме имя. Теперь «Луи Вьюиттон» – крупнейший в мире производитель предметов роскоши. Вы познакомитесь с историей торговой марки и секретами мастеров-чемоданщиков, узнаете о новых направлениях деятельности «Вьюиттон» (одежда прет-а-порте, обувь, ювелирные украшения, часы), о тесной связи Дома с искусством и литературой, архитектурой и дизайном. А также вас ждет увлекательный рассказ об автомобильных шоу, ралли и яхтенных гонках, устраиваемых Домом «Луи Вьюиттон».