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From playful Disney mash-ups to totes that are as capacious as they are colourful, the latest crop of bags will certainly not be left to languish on floors.

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From playful Disney mash-ups to totes that are as capacious as they are colourful, the latest crop of bags will certainly not be left to languish on floors.

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Making prior stops at Shanghai and Tokyo, the collection has finally docked in its new port of call in Singapore.

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Stellar Times features strong, bold lines and vivid gems from the world’s most exotic places, including Madagascar and Mozambique.

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Stellar Times features strong, bold lines and vivid gems from the world’s most exotic places, including Madagascar and Mozambique.

For more stories like this, visit www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg.

Louis Vuitton, arguably the world's most recognised fashion luxury brand has just named Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka as their global ambassador… a list that usually runs the gamut of young, skinny Hollywood royalty types. In its brand release, Louis Vuitton describes Osaka as "multi-faceted, independent and modern" and "one of the most explosive and influential tennis players of all-time," before adding that she is "perfectly incarnating the Louis Vuitton woman."

For her part, Osaka says that "aside from tennis, my most treasured passion is fashion."

Her debut is the SS21 campaign, shot by the house's womenswear Artistic Director Nicolas Ghesquiere, a designer that Osaka admires, whilst they both share "a mutual love of Japanese culture and style."

Vuitton has in recent years tapped Virgil Abloh to head their menswear line and tapped a young Jaden Smith to be the face of a womenswear collection (you've read that right, womenswear), so they've invested in public displays of diversity for some time now. It's translated well for the brand in terms of sales, street credibility, and repute. The appointment of Osaka, a bi-racial Haitian Japanese tennis star, is perhaps not a big surprise in that context.

Why Naomi Osaka?

However, Osaka's appointment is significant because of her sports status, her professional skill, and the fact that she doesn't fit a typical physical Hollywood mold. Her body is strong as it is skillful and yet still an anomaly on fashion runways. She is more than deserving - and the feeling that she is more substantial, more skilled, more vocal, and dynamic than your typical luxury ambassador is just an indication of how luxury is shifting.

There's the demand for more diversity - in fashion this has been ongoing, even before the most recent Black Lives Matter movement which bought the matter to a head. But there's also the demand for more substance and character in fashion, rather than just cookie cutter talent.

Whilst it might seem inappropriate to compare real social injustices to those who fronts a luxury brand or campaign, the way big global brands respond to representation reflects a current societal zeitgeist. What Osaka's appointment hints at is the turn of the tide in celebrating substantial celebrity, beyond waif-like starlet or influencer types. As social unrest, environmental crisis and Covid has thrown the industry into all sorts of existential reckonings, the natural and authentic have emerged as priceless qualities. That yearning for authenticity is palpable and real, even in fashion.

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As the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Louis Vuitton's monogram, created by Georges Vuitton in 1896, is undeniably one of the most recognised patterns in existence. Since its creation, very few designers and artists have been allowed to reinterpret the iconic pattern.

Urs Fischer, one of the most significant contemporary artists today, is one of them. Fischer pushes his viewers to reflect upon common objects and established systems around us via scale distortions and illusions. His work often explores themes of perception and representation while being quite playful and witty.

The Louis Vuitton collaboration

We all love a good collab and Urs Fischer's one with Louis Vuitton is no exception. Here, Fischer has hand-drawn his version of the monogram, calling them "memory sketches". The flowers, quatrefoils, and LV initials logo, under Fischer's hand, appear airy and almost dream-like, as though the motifs are floating right before our eyes. The monogram pattern isn't a uniform one across all the products. Instead, each dream-like motif is thoughtfully adapted to the specific product it's designed for, changing in size, perspective, colour and application technique.

True to Fischer's playful streak, the monogram is also given an additional textural dimension. Through a tuffetage treatment using a velvet-like material, the bags are given a touch of fun tactile relief.

The new monogram is available in two colourways, black and red, and in black and white. The new monogram is used across several product categories, from ready-to-wear, accessories and shoes, and seven special-edition bags. Bag lovers can take their pick, including a Keepall, Cabers, Onthego, two Neverfulls, Speedys, Pochettes Accessoires and even a hard-sided beauty case.

As part of the Louis Vuitton collaboration, Fischer also created a series of whimsical characters depicted as a playful print on a vibrant silk square.

The Louis Vuitton x Urs Fischer collection is now available in-store and online.

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