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(Multicolore Matsuya Department Store Ginza Shopping District)
Louis Vuitton had been weathering the whole economic downturn so well… even recording profits this October when everyone else was seeing major losses.
After seeing numbers go down in Japan, LV’s scraping the ten story Ginza Flagship Boutique that was scheduled to be completed by 2010.
Story from IHT.
(Comme des Garcons)
Stop the freaking press! Louis Vuitton is collaborating with Comme des Garcons in a MAJOR way! Keep reading…
(Marc Jacobs on a Louis Vuitton Trunk)
(No, Marc isn’t wearing a Comme des Garcons tutu (from what I can tell) and that isn’t Part 1 of the collaboration… it’s an old Jean-Paul Goulde pic for Harper’s Bazaar.)
Louis Vuitton and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons will be opening a store JOINTLY in Japan this September for only three months! It will be a store within the Comme des Garcons shop in Tokyo. The entire Comme des Garcons store on Kottodori, Omotesando has been redesigned for the Vuitton project
During this time six super limited edition bags designed by Kawakubo with her inspired version of the traditional Louis Vuitton monogram will be available for order. Kawakubo will design two new “party bags” along with revamps of two bags that were available when LV first entered Tokyo 30 years ago as well as CDG X LV mashups of two current monogram styles.
The collaboration is partly a celebration of the 30 year anniversary since Louis Vuitton opened in Tokyo.
Marc said of the collaboration and Kawakubo in particular,
“It is impossible to overstate Rei Kawakubo’s influence on modern fashion… I find it wonderful to think that 30 years ago, this immense talent, someone who has inspired so many others, was inspired by Louis Vuitton.”
Can’t wait! Read the whole colorful story from Suzy Menkes at IHT!
No, it’s not a newly released Louis Vuitton Multicolore piece… it’s the Matsuya Department Store in the fabulous Ginza shopping district!
I love it! Matsuya has been given an Extreme Makeover! It now bears the vibrant hued fleurs, quatrefoils and famous LV logo of a Takashi Murakami for Louis Vuitton Multicolore Hard Case. Note the “brass” corners, and “S-lock” closure! It’s all lit up, and apparently- it changes colors every half hour!
(image credit: 8tokyo.com)
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