LOUIS Vuitton is on everybody’s lips. Actually.
Final month, the home launched its first-ever makeup collection — ultraluxury lipsticks, balms and eye shadows in refillable monogram tubes and compacts — and its personal shiny crimson Soho pop-up retailer. Positioned at 104 Prince St., the devoted boutique showcases the colour necessities, developed in partnership with famed make-up artist Dame Pat McGrath (beneath), runway magnificence legend and artistic director for the road.
“Working backstage for over 20 years at Louis Vuitton vogue exhibits, I’m thrilled to now play such a key position within the launch of La Beauté Louis Vuitton, which is the results of extraordinary craftsmanship, creativity and innovation,” McGrath mentioned in a press launch.
The vary is noteworthy for its high-design look, huge shade choice and comfy finishes and is infused with signature scents blended by Louis Vuitton grasp perfumer Jacques Cavallier Belletrud.
Konstantin Grcic, an award-winning German industrial designer whose work has been exhibited at main museums all over the world, created the modern packaging. The lipstick and balm instances function a window formed like Louis Vuitton’s iconic Monogram Flower that reveals the shade inside.
The lipstick is available in 55 richly pigmented hues: 27 creamy satin variations with 24-hour hydration and 28 velvety matte choices with 12-hour longwear vivid coloration. For a delicate tint, the balm is obtainable in 10 sheer glow shades promising 48-hour hydration.
The attention shadow quads can be found in eight colorways, every displayed in a Monogram Flower palette.
The lipsticks are redolent of mimosa, jasmine, and rose and the balms are perfumed with scrumptious mint and raspberry aromas.
For the reason that merchandise are thought-about objets d’artwork, the maison additionally created a Vainness Trunk to deal with them. The moveable make-up station was impressed each by considered one of Vuitton’s early magnificence commissions — a Twenties self-importance conceived by Gaston-Louis Vuitton and crafted by designer and cabinetmaker Pierre-Émile Legrain — and McGrath’s backstage magnificence stations.
On a smaller scale, the corporate debuted a devoted line of small leather-based items in Monogram canvas. Restricted-edition Lipstick Pouches and Good Magnificence Instances are made in three of the signature lip shades: Monogram Rouge, Rouge Louis and Tender Bliss.
Issues of magnificence, all of them.
