For the fourth edition of Artycapucines, Louis Vuitton engaged six artists. Who? Amelie Bertrand, Daniel Buren, Ugo Rondinone, Peter Marino, Park Seo-Bo and Kennedy Yanko. It was their mission to reinvent the iconic Capucines with their own style. LV unveiled the Artycapucines 2022 collection at Paris+, Art Basel organisers’ new art fair.
The fourth edition of Artycapucines
Amelie Bertrand
The colour combination of the bag’s calfskin body derives from the meticulous hand-spraying technique that preceded the application of the luminous decorative lines.
Daniel Buren
The bag’s design features symmetrical halves: each side in a different coloured Louis Vuitton Taurillon leather, with a matt treatment.
Ugo Rondinone
The extraordinary harlequin pattern on Rondinone’s bag is the result of hand-embroidering some 15,000 tiny beads onto the leather body of the bag, a process that takes over 100 hours per bag.
Peter Marino
The body of the bag is a precise patchwork of hand-cut strips of fine calfskin, to which 315 studs are applied. The leather handle is woven and assembled by hand.
Park Seo-Bo
To recreate the texture of the image, the calfskin leather must first be treated with a “coup de pinceau” effect, similar to a brushstroke. Then it takes a 3D rubber injection based on a high-definition scan of the painting to be applied to the leather. To ensure that each bag is a perfect reproduction, the leather is then finished by hand.
Kennedy Yanko
First, he 3D printed the body of the bag with rust and weathering effects. Then, the artisans introduced a special patina and delicate touches of gold pigment, emphasising the ripples and folds of the coated leather. The shape of the bag is extracted from a strip of varnished leather, scanned and 3D printed to create a mould on which the leather is applied, worked and stiffened.
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