For the romantics among us, fashion and travel are inextricably linked. Both have the power to change us, whether it’s finding yourself in a far-flung country or slipping on a borrowed coat for the evening. And no brand today understands this transformative relationship better than Louis Vuitton.
In the 1800s, when Monsieur Louis Vuitton was designing custom travel trunks for the Parisian elite, it was his quality craftsmanship and attention to the needs of travellers that kept clients returning to his atelier. In 2023, women’s artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière has taken the spirit of LV’s historical trunk-making and reimagined it for the house’s newest bag: the GO-14.
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The GO-14 is unique among LV’s leather goods offering for the criss-crossing pattern – a.k.a. the malletage — across the soft lambskin leather, a tricky artistic process involving more than 20 different steps. Malletage first appeared on the Louis Vuitton runway in October 2014 (hence the coded name), but is in fact a throwback to the spirit of trunk-making itself, when travellers would tuck their documents inside the cross-cross straps of their LV trunks for safe-keeping. With GO-14, Ghesquière is turning the design inside out.
“There are some universal codes that exist solely in Louis Vuitton,” Ghesquière said. “It was about reappropriating and transposing them into a new setting.”
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Each bag is accented with the now iconic golden LV Twist lock. It…
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