everybody's contemporary, Elena
Elena Koletsou encountering the Louis Vuitton Richard Prince leather handbag 2008
Video by Tassos Vrettos
Editing by Lexie Vryoni
Listening to "Peter's night", by Nikolas Gale, with the voice of Peter Sellers
Bag, as in the destefashioncollection, capsule of 2008 which is curated by Juergen Teller
selection five - Fashion and Art
Object A: Louis Vuitton Richard Prince handbag (2008)
This season's Louis Vuitton collaboration with American artist Richard Prince illustrates the commercially successful marriage of fashion with art that has become a defining trend in fashion this century. Louis Vuitton are the most consistent example of this, having used Murakami, Stephen Sprouse, Warhol and other artists in a series of intelligent projects that allow the artist to directly interfere with their most precious asset, the LV brand. This interference at once undermines and re- establishes the LV logo through reinvention and context, giving the limited edition product ranges the elevated status of collectible and rarefied items, associated with the rarefied values of fine art. Prince is particularly suited for this collaboration given his appropriation of existing images (Cowboys, Girlfriends, car-hoods, advertising images and cartoons) reworked re- contextualized within his work.
(Juergen Teller)
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