We’d like to begin by saying, YES, we know that we are dangling all these exhibitions in far-flung parts in front of you like a particularly juicy carrot, but we have to say that by now, exhibitions in our home city no longer hold a bit of interest. We’re just those international sorts, darling. What’s an exhibition if you don’t have to board some sort of air-based craft and demand the first class treatment to go with it? Which yes, as our trusted flight attendants know, involves copious champagne and a finely crushed valium atop whichever food we are hoovering up ce jour. The latest on our list? Louis Vuitton’s Volez Voguez Voyagez Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan. Fittingly, and as is typique of Louis Vuitton, it is about a travel and advernture, a celebration of LV’s journey from 1845 to the present day. This means a journey through several luxurious rooms about such fabulous things as trunks, yachts, “fine writing”, portraiture – filled with treasures from the Louis Vuitton archives, from the classic malle to specially commissioned objects from Japanese craftsmen.
“Louis Vuitton has always been at the forefront of creation and innovation, today like over a century ago,” Michael Burke, CEO of Louis Vuitton said. “Constantly taking inspiration from our past we craft the trends of today. Olivier Saillard [the curator] has immersed himself in the Louis Vuitton archives to decode its secrets. He delivers a fresh vision of our past, present and future.” The exhibition, which itself is on a journey around the world that began in the Grand Palais in Paris, will be held in a bespoke structure in Kioicho, a neighbourhood in Tokyo where in 1978 Louis Vuitton opened its very first store in Japan. So max out that black card baby, we’re off to Tokyo. Sayonara.
Louis Vuitton’s Volez Voguez Voyagez is on at 5-1-3 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, runs from April 23 to June 19 and is free to the public.
