Weekly vintage: old people spread it for Louis Vuitton

December 5, 2008

Who wears genuine Louis Vuitton nowadays, outside of France, that wasn’t born before the last great war?  The very yellow-brown pattern triggers unpleasant associations.  Seriously though, nobody born in the last thirty years that hasn’t married a sugar daddy from the Texas oil fields would even think of spotted carrying one of those monstrosities.  Which is probably why Marc Jacobs has resorted to using oldies like Sean Connery and Madonna to hawk his spring collection.  I can not relate.  But if I’m rich one day, maybe for mom, or grandma?

Check out Sean Connery, all relaxed in his knowledge that despite stock market turmoil, he’s not gonna foreclose on his retirement island, not with that LV bag subsidizing him.  And Madonna, forever bound to her fishnet, decides to show off her half-a-century of stored prowess in some acrobatic leg kick, all while wearing her cheapo LV bag and 5 inch stilettos.  Budget must’ve been tight - this supposed French bistro inspired campaign was shot in some rundown place in LA.  But M is working it, no?  All that stretching and turning and spreading. 

source: nymag, icydk

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