The bag is made of Taiga leather with Monogram canvas pattern, available in different colors like Cobalt, Green, Jaune, Blanc and Noir. The Outdoor Messenger was just released for the brand’s Spring/Summer 2019. Also available in Monogram Solar Ray, Taurillon Monogram and Crocodile. The Denim Monogram retails for $3,550 (USD). It has a leather and chain shoulder strap, and features metallic corners. Priced at $1,630 (USD).Ī stylish take on the brand’s iconic luggage, the Soft Trunk makes a modern messenger bag. Available in Monogram Eclipse, Damier Graphite and Damier Ebene. It is a spacious and lightweight messenger bag, perfect for everyday use. It’s rare to have a costume designer actually design products for release, but it has made each piece that little more connected to the actual movie, as though they are props.įurthermore, the Collector’s Edition is created with actual fabrics from the movie, so people are able to own a part of it.Another popular messenger bag style is the District. Métier is able to benefit from the mainstream fandom of such a huge blockbuster, while Indiana Jones has the opportunity to create luxury fashion merchandise to fuel its cultural reputation.
LV MESSENGER BAG MOVIE
In celebration of the new movie The Dial of Destiny, the collectors collection boosts the cultural esteem of the more accessible line.
Verdict: The collision of Métier co-founder and creative director Melissa Morris, and Academy Award-nominated English costume designer Joanna Johnston who has worked on the Indiana Jones franchise since 1984, this is premium movie merchandise. Social context: There are eight posts on the Métier Instagram about this project, posted to the brand’s 35,900 followers. Product: The Collector’s Edition collection (Vagabond Duggle, Vagabond Messenger, and Runaway bags) and the main collection featuring Hunter Messenger, Vagabond Duffle, Vagabond Messenger, Runaway, and Basket bags, as well as leather goods such as a travel wallet and notebook cover. Brands are just another medium for our work.” Indiana Jones x MétierĬapitalizing on the popularity of movie merchandise, Métier has collaborated with Indiana Jones IP. Gabriel, co-founder of Mschf, told Collabs & Drops in an interview back in 2021, “Our success comes from the conceptual power of our work, not the endorsements they carry. If a handbag cannot actually provide the singular utility that it should, we are forced to be confronted with the other meanings that it spurs. Pre-mounted underneath a microscope, this design needs a tool to even acknowledge its beauty - conceptual fashion is not something that can be understood by the naked eye, perhaps. How useful are the constant luxury releases? The project reflects how the meaning of fashion now fully lies in its cultural prestige and connotations. Like all of Mschf’s releases, the Microscopic bag spurs social introspection. Joopiter did remove the photo of this collab once uploaded, though. Verdict: Despite the tongue-in-cheek collective Mschf apparently not gaining official permission from Louis Vuitton for this collaboration, it was created for the “Just Phriends” auction sale curated for the luxury house’s new menswear creative director Pharrell Williams’ Joopiter auction house. Social context: Mschf currently has 687,000 followers on Instagram, and the official post about its Louis Vuitton bag has 80,900 likes which is meteorically higher than its previous two announcements (22,700 and 11,800 respectively). Product: Microscopic Handbag made from neon-green photopolymer resin (approx. Mschf’s unofficial Louis Vuitton collaboration spurs introspection of how we consume fashion. Luxury fashion brands are only truly able to enter the art world with the assistance of artists, yet to do so with prestige, it helps to reference cultural history like the French house has done with this collaboration. The fact that each one is also presented in the Boîte Chapeu modern hat box which was first launched in 1924 also connects the Capucines to Louis Vuitton’s expansive history, enhancing the worth of each bag. Collaborating with artists on a prestigious Sotheby’s auction therefore fuels the style with cultural capital.Įvery Capucines has been signed by each artist under the flap, and will also be exhibited as part of a public exhibition in Sotheby’s Paris headquarters, positioning them as art pieces.
Verdict: Louis Vuitton’s Capucines bag was launched in 2013, making it one of the brand’s more contemporary designs - some date back to the 1930s. Social context: Louis Vuitton hasn’t posted about this to its 53.4million followers, likely as Pharrell Williams’ menswear debut show is taking priority right now. Product: Public charity auction selling 22 unique artist-designed Artycapucines bags by Louis Vuitton. 22 artists have been invited by Louis Vuitton to reimagine the Capucines bag for a Sotheby’s auction.
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