Peter Marino, Daniel Buren, Park Seo-bo and more artists have designed limited-edition bags for the 2022 Artycapucines line
The worlds of art and fashion intersect once again through Louis Vuitton’s latest Artycapucines collection. This year, the French fashion brand has tapped on six contemporary artists to reinterpret its Capucines handbag: Peter Marino, Daniel Buren, Ugo Rondinone, Kennedy Yanko, Park Seo-bo and Amélie Bertrand.
Each artist transformed the bag into unique works of art, working with Louis Vuitton’s artisans in France and Italy to bring their creative vision to life.
A standout is Rondinone’s design, which features a colourful harlequin pattern created with over 14,000 beads stitched by hand. The Swiss-born artist, known for his iconic Clown series, also turned the handle of the Capucines into a rainbow, on top of adding a clown emblem on the bag’s flap.
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In contrast, American architect Peter Marino’s take on the Capucines was a lot less playful. But the bag had its own mysterious appeal: it’s crafted entirely in black leather and features a studded exterior inspired by a medieval trunk. The highlight is the clasp, which can be slid sideways to lock or unlock the bag. Marino, who has designed interiors for the luxury maison, borrowed the locking mechanism from the aforementioned antique.
Louis Vuitton’s 2022 Artycapucines collection includes designs from other established names like Park Seo-bo, who is considered the father of modern Korean art, as well as the award-winning French artist Daniel Buren. The latter’s version of Capucines is double-sided—making the bag very practical—and comes in four different colours.
The French fashion house also invited emerging names like American sculptor Kennedy Yanko and Paris-based painter Amélie Bertrand. For their Capucines designs, both incorporated elements of their artworks—like metal, in Yanko’s case, or the trippy, vibrant gradients of Bertrand’s paintings.
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