Japanese fashion designer, Nigo, and Louis Vuitton artistic director, Virgil Abloh, collaborate a new line for the high-end fashion house that brings out the daring in the debonair
The LV² collection is collaboration between two creative minds. Pulling together Japanese fashion designer and artist, Nigo, to the company's very own artistic director, Virgil Abloh, Louis Vuitton manages to create a new line of ready to wear clothing that is bold without being over the top. While the traditional Louis Vuitton emblems have been remade, its iconic Damier print and Monogram emblem remain recognisable at the forefront of the designs.
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Louis Vuitton's iconic bags endure in their familiar classic silhouettes. Keepall bags, backpacks, cross-body bags, and weekend style bags are unchanged in form although the designers have reinvented them in a few ways. For one, the Monogram pattern has been superimposed over the Damier check. While this is reminiscent of vintage Louis Vuitton designs, the way it merges into one another—in form of a graceful cascade—is something entirely new and quintessentially LV².
