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• Louis Vuitton autumn winter newest collection 2011 at Paris Fashion Week

  
  10 March 2011
  

  Louis Vuitton autumn winter newest collection 2011 at Paris Fashion Week - Louis Vuitton autumn winter fashion trends 2011: Fashion and fetishism in Marc Jacobs's Louis Vuitton fashion spectacle.Fashion's obsession with handbags was at the core of the compelling spectacle which made up the American designer, Marc Jacobs's autumn/winter 2011 collection for Louis Vuitton, shown in Paris this morning.

  

  Widely said to be a "money no object" event for the multi-billion pound French luxury brand, the show was staged in a massive black tent in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum, with a cast of saucy French maids with feather dusters, four hotel doormen, and 67 models, including Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell.

  The models were ferried up to the stage in four gilded elevators, inspired by those in Claridge's Hotel in London.

  The collection explored the meaning of fashion and fetish, linking the two together, both symbolically, and literally, as when models emerged wearing 18 carat gold, crystal or crocodile handcuffs.

  "I started with our inexplicable obsession with handbags, almost like a fetish object, and our passion for fashion, which is just as obsessional. That led me to all the disciplines required, whether it is the craft of making handbags, or fetish, or dressage" said Jacobs, whose collections for both Louis Vuitton and his own label, make him one of the most influential and widely copied designers in the world.

  "I wasn't trying to outrage, it was all very tongue-in-cheek."

  The collection focused on an exaggerated feminity, with clothes ranging from the sedate to the steamy. Neat white collars and gloves - based upon "Madeline" of the children's book series - adorned prim sweaters, with fit-and-flare knee-skirts, while modest, puff-sleeved dresses were printed with masks, whips and shoes.

  PVC macs were worn with knickerbockers - or just knickers - and platform-soled, high-heeled rubber wellies. Wide, leather corset-belts cinched the waist of cashmere coats, and rubberized-lace long gowns.

  Kate Moss closed the show wearing a black, rubberized lace jacket, with shaggy Mongolian sleeves, with cashmere hot-pants and crocodile boots, and puffing furiously on a cigarette.

  Celebrities amongst the 1,300-strong audience included the British actor, Alex Pettyfer, Daisy Lowe, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Natalia Vodianova, and the Chinese actress and popsinger, Fan Bing Bing.

  The Paris prêt-à-porter season - last in the four-city catwalk marathon, which began in New York a month ago - will end this afternoon with the Miu Miu autumn/winter 2011 collection, designed by Miuccia Prada.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  (telegraph fashion news)