Fetishism inspires LV collection
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March 10, 2011, Thursday
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HANDBAG maker Louis Vuitton lifted the curtain on the dark underbelly of love yesterday with a fetishist fall-winter 2011-12 collection built around corsets, patent leather boots and handcuffs.
Hostesses dressed in French maid's uniforms and brandishing oversized feather dusters and platters with caviar hors d'oeuvres and shots of vodka - the perfect pick-me-up at 10 in the morning - ushered guests into a tent that recreated a dimly lit Paris hotel. With its black marble floor and old-school cage elevators, Vuitton's hotel was, while not seedy per se, perhaps not the kind of place you'd take the kids on vacation.
One of the elevators creaked into motion, and the first of Vuitton's army of kinky mistresses emerged onto the catwalk in a see-through skirt nipped to wasp-width at the waist by a wide belt.
Hourglass shaped coats in tweed and slick patent leather were worn with thigh-high stockings - and nothing else.
Designer Marc Jacobs said the public's desire for everything with the LV logo sparked the idea for the collection.
"We were thinking about obsession, fetishism and we thought about an old hotel..." Jacobs said. "And we just wanted to reveal all the amazing creatures who passed through there."
Hostesses dressed in French maid's uniforms and brandishing oversized feather dusters and platters with caviar hors d'oeuvres and shots of vodka - the perfect pick-me-up at 10 in the morning - ushered guests into a tent that recreated a dimly lit Paris hotel. With its black marble floor and old-school cage elevators, Vuitton's hotel was, while not seedy per se, perhaps not the kind of place you'd take the kids on vacation.
One of the elevators creaked into motion, and the first of Vuitton's army of kinky mistresses emerged onto the catwalk in a see-through skirt nipped to wasp-width at the waist by a wide belt.
Hourglass shaped coats in tweed and slick patent leather were worn with thigh-high stockings - and nothing else.
Designer Marc Jacobs said the public's desire for everything with the LV logo sparked the idea for the collection.
"We were thinking about obsession, fetishism and we thought about an old hotel..." Jacobs said. "And we just wanted to reveal all the amazing creatures who passed through there."
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