PORTFOLIO LOUIS VUITTON

CREATIVE DIRECTION: MARNE SCHWARTZ
PHOTOGRAPHY: TĀNE COFFIN
FASHION DIRECTION: CHARLOTTE STOKES
HAIR: KEIKO TADA
MAKEUP: FUMIHIRO BAN
MODEL: SABINA LOBOVA / DONNA MODELS
WORDS: CHRISANTHI KALIVIOTIS

The Grazia Team shot on location at Brat Style Motorcycles, Tokyo
TOKYO: 1-25-23 Akabanekita Kita-Ku Tokyo 115-0052 Japan
CALIFORNIA: 1340 W. Cowles St. Long Beach, CA 90813 USA

Beaubourg, the square in front of the famed Centre Pompidou in Paris, is a pulsating, peculiar place. Art savants saunter. Buskers warble soft chanson. Tourists surge with smartphones and smiles. Teenage boys breakdance in hoodies and kicks, their chains clinking with every motion. It’s what Nicolas Ghesquière calls a “melting pot of different tribes coming together… a place where expression is free to be.” It was here – on the streets – that Ghesquière landed for his FW19 collection, this hotbed of culture, race, creed. And not dissimilar to the heaving, idiosyncratic square in the fourth arrondissement of Paris is Tokyo – a place of unbridled, forward-thinking creativity, rich in diversity. This is where Ghesquière’s Louis Vuitton comes to life. On the streets. In the back of an old bike shop. It’s where frilly necks meet duvet vests, where tomboyish tailoring meets soft silhouettes; an urban kingdom where, just like the tribes of Beaubourg, sartorial incongruities converge. A reimagining of these subcultures through deft masterstrokes, it’s a coming together of tribes.