Christian Louboutin
Christian Louboutin has designed a shopping trolley and bag combining iconic monogram canvas with Vuitton heritage codes and his own signature design embellishments. ‘For me, the bag had to be a combination of two DNAs: my own and Louis Vuitton’s.’ Louboutin says ‘then I really began to think about what would be a marriage between the two’.
On the design of the shopping series, Louboutin says ‘I started to think about the layering of these codes – both Louis Vuitton’s and mine. The idea of lacquer occurred to me here, especially in connection with Les Nabis and the influence of Japan in their work. it was the marriage of colours and the marriage of influences; on Vuitton’s side the influence of Les Nabis on the monogram and their debt to Japan; on my side, being very French but also looking at something very Japanese and coming from my trademark – the red sole – the idea of red lacquer. Of course, I had to have the red touch!’
