Louis Vuitton S/S 09 : Madonna by Steven Meisel

[svsk_sk2]

i love the collection tho i still think the shoes look very much like the muti-colour ones from balenciaga... but still i'm not sure rather i actually like these with Madonna... umm...

[Northern Star]

This actually looks better than I imagined.......although they are not really like campaign pics......but maybe that is a good thing.
The idea of Madonna just bored me rigid but I'll reserve judgement until I see the whole campaign.

[LagerfeldBoy]

ugh it indeed feels like an editorial but i somewhat am i surprised how good she looks but then again madonna is lovers with photoshop. ugh plus it feels dark...i mean the show was all full with energy which i would've loved here

[Urban Stylin]

hmm...her best ad of all time! not bad

[Melly5525]

Im shocked but I actually love these ads!! The backdrop is wonderful the clothes and shoes look amazing and with alot of airbrushing so does Madonna

[larien]

Not bad..I can even say that i like it..At least a different theme for LV after ages

[eugenius]

What I don't like about this campaign is the styling of the outfit: way too much going on w/ this dead-muppet skirt, excess bracelets, big bags & big shoes, plus fishnet stockings..Whatever happened to the "less is more" approach?

Seriously, even the Gorbachev shot was better than this..

[Flashbang]

Originally Posted by j'adorekapusta

i would LVE if they put Courtney Love in this. now THAT would be a decadent french cafe atmosphere.
there's much more on to say the Madonna's campaign but i'll save it for later.

true!

[Spike413]

The shots are beautifully done and all, but I feel like if you're going to go for a cliche, you may as well go there, you know? Fill the set with cigarette smoke, dim the lights, break out the burgundy leather banquettes and have tables overflowing with half-empty glasses of wine or absinthe or whatever other concoction you can imagine to the point where you can practically see Madame Bijoux at the bar.

This is more like the responsible and mature way of doing a Parisian cabaret. The scenes don't have much life or fun in them, and the runway show was full of it. And I agree with the complaints about the colors. I don't think that M&M would've done a good job capturing the colors in this collection, but I do think Meisel could have and should have made the colors more saturated, rich. This kind of mutes everything a bit too much for my liking.

[Bahiyya]

Originally Posted by eugenius

What I don't like about this campaign is the styling of the outfit: way too much going on w/ this dead-muppet skirt, excess bracelets, big bags & big shoes, plus fishnet stockings..Whatever happened to the "less is more" approach?

Seriously, even the Gorbachev shot was better than this..

"Less is more"? This is LV . Until the accessories lose their starring role in the balance sheets and the economy sours every ad is going to be crammed with as much bangles and bags as possible.

Although the fishnet stockings were Madonna's idea.

[mikel]

Originally Posted by Spike413

The shots are beautifully done and all, but I feel like if you're going to go for a cliche, you may as well go there, you know? Fill the set with cigarette smoke, dim the lights, break out the burgundy leather banquettes and have tables overflowing with half-empty glasses of wine or absinthe or whatever other concoction you can imagine to the point where you can practically see Madame Bijoux at the bar.

This is more like the responsible and mature way of doing a Parisian cabaret. The scenes don't have much life or fun in them, and the runway show was full of it. And I agree with the complaints about the colors. I don't think that M&M would've done a good job capturing the colors in this collection, but I do think Meisel could have and should have made the colors more saturated, rich. This kind of mutes everything a bit too much for my liking.

maybe the colours will look better in print?

[bittercain]

she is so sophisticated^^wow

[BerlinRocks]

i don't do yoga so maybe that's why i'm more thinking about a cabaret afterparty than a yoga class ...
something really disturbs me ... idk wasn't this collection supposed to be an ode to France and YSL ? What is YSL there ? What is France ? ... the café atmosphere ? the bottle of wines ? to me this is bad ...
Madonna is not someone I think about when I think of LV ... Especially since she did something with Tisci recently, right ? I think this is not the right choice for LV, then ...

i agree with j'adorekapusta in the sense Courtney Love would have rocked the decadent parisian atmosphere ... though I don't even see decadence with Madonna ... but it really seems they tried to give this idea of an after-party in a café @ 5am with some dancer ... but everything is soooo controlled ! I get the idea ... but I want it to be more narrative, more story-like ....

disappointed ... and i agree about the mute tones ... it looks like something for winter and not summer ...
I think they got it wrong with this ... though i'm still happy they didn't go toooo much on the bags ... we see them, but not that much ...

[JuiceMajor]

The heels are insane and so does Madonna....she look sensational!!

[Bengt]

Interesting article from Guardian..

Even off duty, the woman cannot help but pose. Backstage photographs from fashion shoots usually show a celebrity or model in their natural, ungilded state.
Judging from a picture of Madonna by the fashion photographer Steven Meisel, during the shoot for next season's Louis Vuitton advertising campaign, her instinctive state is to placate the camera.
Even when being fitted by Vuitton's creative director, the heavily tattooed Marc Jacobs, in a tented-off dressing room, she puts her hands on her waist and a sway in her hip. She probably vogues as she makes her children's porridge in the morning.
Under Jacob's aegis, Louis Vuitton has featured a slew of unlikely celebrities in its various campaigns, including Keith Richards, Sean Connery, Andre Agassi and even Mikhail Gorbachev.
Celebrities in fashion adverts are now almost commonplace, but the collaboration between Madonna and Vuitton has sparked a huge amount of fizzing ever since it was announced. She has previously appeared in adverts for Gap, for her own collection for H&M and for Versace but has tended to avoid being allied with a single fashion label recently.

guardian.co.uk