A Look at Louis Vuitton’s New Beverly Hills Offerings: New Menswear Store, ‘200 Trunks’ Exhibit

The posh home debuts a menswear boutique and brings its touring exhibit '200 Trunks 200 Visionaries' to the 90210.


It’s an enormous month for Louis Vuitton in Beverly Hills.


The posh home has hit the 90210 with a pair of recent high-profile choices, first on July 16 with the debut of a devoted menswear retailer at 420 North Rodeo Drive. The placement, Louis Vuitton’s first menswear store in California and eighth within the nation, options the Fall-Winter 2022 assortment designed by beloved late designer Virgil Abloh, baggage, watches, leather-based items, sneakers, equipment, house furnishings, a perfume counter and hot-stamping service that provides patrons the choice of personalizing leather-based items. The perfume counter additionally affords customized engraving of cologne bottles.


Luxurious must-haves apart, what’s certain to be a dialog starter for these perusing the items is the artwork. The store boasts an Abloh-designed “Large Man” sculpture in a handstand place together with commissioned murals by Alex Proba and a three-dimensional acrylic portray on stainless-steel and mirrors by artist Marisa Ferreira.

A take a look at the outside of the Louis Vuitton menswear retailer in Beverly Hills.Brad Dickson
A take a look at the inside of the Louis Vuitton menswear retailer in Beverly Hills.Brad Dickson


A stone’s throw from the menswear tackle comes a second Louis Vuitton second this month courtesy of the touring exhibit 200 Trunks 200 Visionaries. Unveiled in France in December — at Louis Vuitton’s historic house in Asnières as a technique to mark the milestone anniversary of the model founder — the exhibition arrives from Singapore and takes over a up to date area at 468 North Rodeo.


Open to the general public each day by Sept. 6 (with on-line reservations out there), it options 200 trunks designed by associates of the Maison, hailing from the worlds of “arts and tradition, the sciences, sports activities, world causes” and extra together with Gloria Steinem, Alex Israel, Pat McGrath, Lego, Nigo, Peter Marino and Frank Gehry, to call just a few. The trunks will ultimately be auctioned off for charity by Sotheby’s.


“This venture has at all times been about creativity,” says LV visible picture director Faye McLeod. “An actual tribute to Louis’s ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit. We get to see how such a cross-section of abilities answered the identical transient whereas additionally taking a second to understand the person himself.”

The outside at 468 North Rodeo Dr. in Beverly Hills. Per the model, “the constructing’s white facade makes an instantaneous impression owing to colourful stripes that fill the home windows and echo an early Louis Vuitton trunk motif.”Courtesy of Louis Vuitton
Striped stairs led company to the second degree exhibition area. Courtesy of Louis Vuitton
A customized area spotlights on particular trunk. Courtesy of Louis Vuitton
A group of trunks line the exhibition walkway. Courtesy of Louis Vuitton
Gloria Steinem is seen on digital screens in a way of life space on the finish of the exhibit that additionally options books and items. Courtesy of Louis Vuitton
Ambiance inside Louis Vuitton’s 200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries: The Exhibition. At one level, guests additionally move by “an audio speakeasy” that includes a 200-track jukebox trunk conceived by DJ Benji B.Courtesy of Louis Vuitton

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