Fashion Sense: More Louis V Than You Can Handle

Let me set this scene:
Who: two twenty-something girls
Said what: This is so ugly! Who would ever want this?

(My opinion: I do! I do! It’s beautiful)

Where: a Louis Vuitton boutique

Now- once you all have gotten over the shock of finding something hideous in Louis V., let me tell you. These girls were looking at (and manhandling!) one of LV’s newest arrivals, a handbag from the collection inspired by Richard Prince, artist extraordinaire. Prince’s work may be avant-garde and unusual, but it flows exceptionally well with the LV aesthetic and Marc Jacobs’ insane genius.

Here is a picture of said bag, with text reading:
“Every time I meet a girl who can cook like my
Mother…She looks like my Father.”
“My wife went to the beauty shop and got
a mud pack. For two days she looks beautiful.
Then the mud pack fell off.”
Richard Prince is a controversial American artist whose series of Nurse paintings inspired Marc Jacobs to create a collection that shocked the fashion world as he sent models dressed as nurses down the runway.

Richard Prince paintings:
Marc’s nurses, together (and in order) their hats spell out L-O-U-I-S-V-U-I-T-T-O-N:
Off the runway, in magazine advertisements, Marc’s girls are without the nurse’s hats, atop a classic yellow car in tie-dyed slip dresses, wearing primary colored shoes and holding bags emblazoned with Prince-isms. In some magazines, these are foldout advertisements; other magazines boast only a single page.
This collaboration of sorts is the epitome of what I love about fashion. Marc Jacobs takes cool to a new level as he embraces avant-garde art and molds it into something tangible. So maybe those girls in the Louis Vuitton boutique were right, these may be hideous handbags that to the average eye look paint-splattered or destroyed. But I challenge your inner fashionista to find the beauty in everything. Marc sure does.


xo