Fashion Forum

From WWD.com

PARIS When Rei Kawakubo goes out for the evening, she carries her essentials in what she describes as a no-name black tote bag.

And the maverick Japanese designer behind Comme des Garçons has so far resisted opening her wallet for Louis Vuitton, a powerful French luxury brand present in Japan for 30 years.

Not that any of this has stopped one of her most improbable and anticipated collaborations to date: designing evening bags for Vuitton, which will be unveiled next Wednesday at a temporary concept store in Tokyos trendy Aoyama district.

We thought it was so interesting to combine two opposite worlds, said Yves Carcelle, Vuittons president and chief executive officer.

The idea grew out of a conversation between Vuitton creative director Marc Jacobs and Adrian Joffe, Kawakubos husband, whos president of Comme des Garçons International. I admire and worship her and its the kind of thing that I think is so wonderful to do at Vuitton, where its such an iconic brand and that monogram and everything and, again, Ive said all this before, but its so wonderful to have someone so outside of that thing take their look at it, their approach to it, said Jacobs.

I have a bag LOUIS VUITTON:xand a walett to:D
i'm lucky:>
i took them from a vitange store:X:D

"That's so Rei"

lol