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Handbags and horticulture

Posted in arts & business, cultural branding, luxury, pop-up with tags , , , , , , on May 27, 2009 by culturalbranding

That scarecrow has a better handbag than I do...

Everybody loves a pop-up.  But let’s face it, there are so very many popping-up these days.  So imagine our joy on discovering Louis Vuitton’s pop up GARDEN. 

No stranger to cultural collaborations (think: Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami, Sofia Coppola and, um, Kanye West, to name-drop a few…) LV has teamed up with Turner prize-winner Jeremy Deller to create this horticulture-fest in celebration of the launch of their new store in the temple to all things luxury – The Village at Westfield London.  The garden comes complete with Vuitton handbag-wielding scarecrows, flowers, vegetables, herbs, tonnes of earth and a whole load of hay – Deller even involved the Cambridge WI to help create a flower installation inside the store.

Sadly, as with all things pop-up, the garden’s time in Westfield London is short.  But fear not!  All will not go to waste, as the contents of the garden are being donated to a generation project in Hammersmith next week.

Rose Enright