Louis Vuitton is building up highest expectations for Sofia Coppola's collaboration with LV or her friend Marc respectively:
This should be the epitome of a real cool handbag. We are able to see for ourselves next spring.
Suzy Menkes writes:
But in the collection of bags and shoes that she has been working on with Louis Vuitton for the last year, Coppola has achieved her dream. The bags are grown-up and sophisticated. The shoes are elegant and comfortable. And when they go on sale next spring, after a launch party in Tokyo in December, they will show another facet of the quintessentially cool pop culture icon.
Not everybody is impressed.
NYMag:We're intrigued, but not expecting much. Coppola wanted a day bag that was "chic, discreet and lightweight and that isn't enormous," adding that "it is hard to find [a] bag without a lot of hardware." She opens the roomy bag (selling in the monogram version at €1,600, or about $2,190), showing how there is an open pocket enabling her to grab her telephone. The evening clutch (€800), with its pochette containing a mirror, is "a thing I wanted for myself."
Hm. We have lots of great reasonably priced bags with great telephone pockets (thank you). Maybe the $2,190 version comes with magical powers that prevent the phone from slipping out. And the shoes?
A gilded wedge ankle-strap sandal (€500) was stirred by the memory of her mother's Yves Saint Laurent shoes in the 1970s. ("I loved the 1970s' interpretation of the '30s and '40s," she says.)
Yes, nothing tickles a fancy like Yves Saint Laurent. Is it us, or is this the least exciting buildup to a launch ever? We blame the prose.
