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Comme Des Garçons x Louis Vuitton = Comme Des Vuitton

Guest Contributor in Fashion Splash, Handbags — July 18th, 2008 (185 views / Print this article )

by Cheyqua 

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Monogram Papillon, image courtesy of nitrolicious.com 

After collaborating with H&M, finally Rei Kawakubo collaborates with Louis Vuitton for Louis Vuitton at Comme des Garçonsto launch monogram canvas bags with an edgy design à la Comme des Garçons. These limited bags will be sold only for three months starting from September to mid-December 2008.

Comme d’habitude*, Comme des Garçons tries to ’mess up’ with their die-hard fans by selling these limited bags only at the Louis Vuitton at Comme des Garçons  store, which will be opened only for three months! And the worse thing is, there won’t be such thing as cash-and-carry to get the limited bag, because you’ll have to order right away at the Louis Vuitton at Comme des Garçons store. They’ll only receive orders on the spot, no telephone nor internet orders will be taken. After that, you’ll have to wait until they inform you to get  “one of the six bags designed by Kawakubo in LV monogram pattern”  at the chosen Louis Vuitton store (yes, you choose!), after several months of waiting!

So, all the Louis Vuitton and Comme des Garçons freaks, would you sacrifice to get this quirky bag? You still have at least two months to prepare and several months to wait for the delivery ;)

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Speedy, image courtesy of nitrolicious.com 

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click on thumbnails for larger view, pics courtesy of nitrolicious.com 

 

La Transformation de Louis Vuitton

OK, enough with the whole Louis Vuitton at Comme des Garçons euphoria! I’ve got another Louis Vuitton-related story to share :)

It’s funny to see how Rei Kawakubo’s designs for Louis Vuitton have inspired me to write this. Do you know that long before Suhali or Ursula were invented, Louis Vuitton only created bags for cars (I guess it’s more correct to say trunks instead of bags) or—lets say kereta kencana :p It’s not the trunk we use to pack our clothes while we’re on vacation or something like that, but it’s the trunk they used to pack the cutlery sets or even mechanical tools like obeng and friends. I wonder if mechanics today are using Louis Vuitton trunk to keep their tools too. That’s really fierce!

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*Comme d’habitude means “As Always”

Pic Courtesy: nitrolicious.com, private.

There are 9 comments for this entry. Add yours

  1. piscanilie

    Chey .. ini toh trunk nya hehehe

    July 18th, 2008 at 9:35 am

  2. tje2p

    naaah… beneran nih… jadi keinget sama perlengkapan piknik para raja / bangsawan jaman beheula, ada tulisannya khusus dibikin oleh Louis Vuitton, si pembuat tas… jaman sekarang juga bisa… LV trunk kecil buat tempat bekal makan siangnya raja minyak….
    *halah*

    July 18th, 2008 at 10:50 am

  3. upi

    aaah… so adorable.
    apapun bisa dibikin si Louis Vuitton… keren.. keren…

    July 18th, 2008 at 8:33 pm

  4. BDJ

    Cheyqua, Vuitton was already in biz before the cars appeared hehe ;).
    Vuitton started by making trunks for horse carriages and ‘introduced’ the luggage as we know it today coz before him the top of all the trunks were rounded and you could not stack them. So he made it flat ;). And, funny thing is that his products were already ‘counterfeited’ at that time and he created the monogram like a ‘trademark’ ;) and defeat the copycats.

    July 19th, 2008 at 12:48 am

  5. cheyqua

    BDJ, yes I actually mentioned the horse carriages as “Kereta kencana” hehehe.. the monogram itself was created on 1900-something, I forgot (the trunks were created for the first time on 19th century..)
    thanks for the info, BDJ.. I just lost the press-release files.. hehehe.. *what an excuse! hahaha*

    July 19th, 2008 at 1:10 am

  6. BDJ

    Ohhhh, sorry then, ooops oooops ;)

    July 19th, 2008 at 2:39 am

  7. uberboston

    Awwwww…. Lucu banget gantungannyaaaa!

    July 19th, 2008 at 7:20 am

  8. kembang gula

    setuju, uber! gue malah lebih tertarik liat gantungannya..lucu!

    July 19th, 2008 at 11:45 am

  9. dsply

    huummmm…..
    that trunk (and everything inside it) would be a perfect gift for moms :)

    September 11th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

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