Louis Vuitton City Bags: A Natural History

Marc Jacobs is the creative director for Louis Vuitton and designer for the Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs lines. Florence Müller is a curator, fashion historian, and associate professor at the Institut Français de la Mode. Takashi Murakami is an artist based in New York and Tokyo.

This volume which comes enveloped in a richly hued marbleized cover takes sociology of fashion seriously, tracing the development of Vuitton s trademark bags through a system mimicking the scientific classification of plants and animals interviews with Vuitton collaborating artists, vintage paparazzi shots, and fun packing lists round out the book. ~Vogue

City Bags examines the century-long development and manufacture of the iconic lines that helped make the handbag a fashion staple for modern women the authors and illustrators of this handsome volume, bound in buckram canvas with a swirl-paint print, trace the rich genealogies of Louis Vuitton staples ~Surface Magazine
 
In Rizzoli s latest luxury monograph, the creation and evolution of Louis Vuitton s legendary handbag line gets a jolt of intrigue, thanks to a clever conceit: each bag is treated like a species all its own, classified and categorized with scientific precision. ~V Magazine
 
  This book delineates the genealogy of the Vuitton bag, with stops along the way to show amazing photos of vintage Vuitton bags, complete with travel stickers. There are terrific images from vintage advertising dating back to the beginning of the 20th century. ~WWD
 
By the end of the book, your appreciation for LV bags will be so high you may find yourself drawn to your nearest boutique to admire the craftsmanship in person. ~Lucky Magazine
 
No matter what you call it, Louis Vuitton City Bags is nothing short of remarkable in its detail paid to every single style, permutation, and generation from this fabled brand. The book takes a genealogical approach with how and why each handbag evolved and is amazingly illustrated with renderings that look like family family trees as well as photographs. Louis Vuitton City Bags leaves no stone unturned and really might be subtitled Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About a Louis Vuitton Bag and Didn t Know You Needed to Know (But You Do).