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Louis Vuitton Handbags – Is This The Future of Luxury Fashion?(WTVOX)   May 30, 2019 | LAURENTI ARNAULT You can say without hesitation that 2019 is the year of flexible displays; we’ve seen them everywhere, from the latest generation of foldable smartphones to the realm of luxury fashion, and now in Louis Vuitton handbags!   The newest addition, a new line of Louis Vuitton handbags with flexible digital screens, designed by Nicolas Ghesquière, Creative Director of Louis Vuitton Women’s Collections.   It all started at the Cruise Collection 2020 which took place at the TWA Flight Center, at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, thanks to its futurist design style inspired by the age of space explorations, created by architect Eero Saarinen.   Louis Vuitton Handbags – Canvas of the Future   Here, Louis Vuitton’s Cruise passengers embarked on round trips between the French haute-couture and heritage, and New York’s underground fashion. Between the extravagant elegance of Paris and Wall Street’s conformity of uniforms.   The whole event was imagined as a dialogue between Paris and New York, in homage to the first trans-Atlantic crossings that brought the French luxury house from the City of Light to the Big Apple.   For this special event, the designer has fused cutting-edge technology in some of Vuitton’s most iconic bags, while retaining Maison’s signature savoir-faire.   Hailed as the most innovative ‘canvas’ to date, according to an LVMH spokesman, “flexible displays have become the reason for reconsidering the digital ‘Canvas of the Future’,” in a breathtaking fusion of craftsmanship with technology.       Read more on the WTVOX.    

      Iris van Herpen Fall 2019 Couture: HYPNOSIS ∞   July 16, 2019 |         For this collection, Iris van Herpen found inspiration in the hypnotic manifolds within our ecologies through the work of American artist Anthony Howe. The three-dimensional cyclical harmony of Howe’s kinetic sculptures is the wind beneath the wings of this collection. Howe's spherical ‘Omniverse’ sculpture explores our relationship with nature and intertwines with infinite expansion and contraction, expressing a universal life cycle. The meditative movement of the ‘Omniverse’ serves as a portal for the collection and the models, encircling a state of hypnosis. The collaboration with Howe evolves ‘in an ecstasy of attentiveness’ through the symbiosis of all the elements of nature that are dependent on each other. As one of the key pieces of the collection, the finale ‘Infinity’ dress comes alive on the breath of a finely balanced mechanism. An engineered skeleton of aluminium, stainless steel and bearings is embroidered with a delicate layering of feathers in cyclical flight; revolving around their own centre. ‘Hypnosis’ reflects the beauty and complexity of our environment, exploring the patterns and structures within its fragile landscape. ‘The 'Hypnosis' collection is a hypnotic visualisation of nature’s tapestry, the symbiotic cycles of our biosphere that interweave the air, land, and oceans. It also reflects the ongoing dissection of the rhythms of life and resonates with the fragility within these interwoven worlds.’ - Iris van Herpen The 'Hypnosis' collection consists of 19 silhouettes that flow deceptively in transparencies. Multilayered around the body, they revive the ancient silk moiré weaving technique that links to the illusory nature of human perception. The ‘Epicycle' looks are constructed by multi-layering luminous organza spheres, which challenge the relationship between surface and substance through illusory patterns that wrap into each other infinitely. The ‘Suminagashi’ garments which reflect the venerable art of Japanese floating ink on water, are lasercut into liquid lines of dyed silk, heat bonded onto transparent tulle to seemingly and seamlessly flow over the skin. The ‘Dichotomy’ looks are laser- printed, heat-bonded and lasercut into contra-positive waves. Each dissected curve is then pressed onto hundreds of ripple-like panels that ebb and flow in an exquisite swell of meticulously hand stitched silk organza. The ‘Hypnosis’ technique, developed in collaboration with Professor Phillip Beesley involves ten of thousands of plottercut mini ripples that continuously dissect the dress through each movement of the body, revealing skin in between the whimsical spheroid patterns. The printed duchesse-satin is plottercut into thousands of 0.8 mm exquisite waves that each are interlinked, designed to move faster than the eye can follow.       Explore the full collection here.         ‘             |