Louis Vuitton S/S13 Painted by Alessandro Raho
Mhairi Graham, AnOther
May 2014
For S/S13, Louis Vuitton put a sharp edge on fashion with a grid-like collection of geometric pop-colour print dresses, made in collaboration with abstract artist Daniel Buren. This season, Alessandro Raho has reinvented the collection in a series of portraits of Young Kim, set against the backdrop of Charles Asprey’s house. “I wanted the day to be part of the art too,” he says. “Charles is a friend and it made it into a great day, it became a social event. When I got there, I found that Charles had a Daniel Buren piece on the wall, purely by chance; he knew nothing about the clothes. It was a good sign.” […]