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Looking at the previous Spring/Summer 2011 runway and the current Louis Vuitton catalog, I can't take my eyes off this Revelation Keepall 45 bag which looks so superb with its debossed & implanted leather - a technique echoing traditional African scarification practices - bearing the signature Louis Vuitton monogram pattern. The color too is so delicious to look at, as delicious as a dark chocolate itself. Succulent and tasty. But it's not just that: it's the bag charm that clutched to the handle that makes me go whoa! Isn't it look fantabulous?
Codename: Louis Vuitton Masai bag charm, together with this travel bag, is part of LV's collaboration with Edun, a for-profit fashion company that was launched in 2005 by Ali Hewson and Bono. It aims to raise awareness of the possibilities in Africa and encourage the fashion community to do business there. Edun was founded on the premise of trade for aid as a means to create jobs and alleviate poverty.
Talking about the bag charm, it was made with 13 handcrafted ebony and bone spikes which is synonymous with the Masai tribe's accessories. Some inlaid in the luxury brand's signature quatrefoils plus a disc bearing the LV monogram, including a brass tag with this year's LV Core Values ad campaign slogan: Every Journey Began in Africa.
Pretty cool as it is, unfortunately, I think the bag charm (which you can also make as a keyring) is not sold separately. Still, you can get it as part of the Revelation Keepall 45 bag itself at a whopping £3,500 (mega gulp!). But hear this: at least you are supporting the charity... (now, lesser gulp!)
[pix from louis vuitton and ilovelv]
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