Photography: Jean-Marc Cédile for Louis Vuitton / Papillon with animal charms

Your girl nitro:licious has got the official press release and images for the Louis Vuitton at COMME des GARCONS Collection, check it out! I am sure this collection will fly off the shelves regardless of what people say, why? Because it's a collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Rei Kawakubo from COMME des GARCONS, if you want a piece of this- fly to Japan!

Per the press release: On September 4, 2008, Louis
Vuitton opens an impermanent store inside Comme des Garçons in Tokyo.
The idea for the project emerged from the memories of Comme des Garçons
founder Rei Kawakubo. In 1978, as a young designer, she saw the first
Louis Vuitton store to open in Japan and was fascinated by the image of
French craftsmanship and art de vivre it projected – a luxury that
seemed to her, at the time, unattainable. Three decades on, Rei
Kawakubo wanted to revisit her impressions, and so the association
between Comme des Garçons and Louis Vuitton was born.

Intriguingly, Louis Vuitton is celebrating this year its 30th
anniversary in Japan. Rei Kawakubo has dedicated and re-designed the
entire Comme des Garcons store on Kottodori, Omotesando especially for
Louis Vuitton for the duration of the project, from 4th September through mid-December,
into a space that will be a celebration of the Louis Vuitton Monogram.
The fruit of this unprecedented collaboration – an exclusive collection
of six one-off bags – will be presented in a minimalist space, at the
centre of which will be a display of historic Louis Vuitton trunks.
Inspired by her memories, Rei Kawakubo chose the legendary Monogram
canvas to create two Party bags, small evening purses with outsized
natural leather handles. The designer also customized two classic Louis
Vuitton bags, endowing the Papillon with kawaii (cute) animal charms
and the Mini HL with multiple slender handles. Lastly, Louis Vuitton is
reediting two iconic designs from the 1970s – the Petit Marceau and the
Sac 2 Poches – which Rei Kawakubo is likely to have seen in the windows
of that first Louis Vuitton store.

The bags will only be available upon order, which is only to be placed at the “Louis Vuitton at Comme des Garçons store”. No telephone or Internet orders will be taken.
In return, customers will receive a certificate inside a special card
holder in Louis Vuitton’s traditional natural leather, embossed with
the Louis Vuitton at Comme des Garçons signature. Only several months
later will their bag be delivered to their chosen Louis Vuitton store.
Other iconic Louis Vuitton Monogram bags, such as the Speedy and Alma
chosen by Rei Kawakubo, will also be on display and available for
immediate sale inside this special “Louis Vuitton at Comme des Garçons”
store. via nitro:licious

Photography: Jean-Marc Cédile for Louis Vuitton / Mini HL with multiple slender handles

Photography: Jean-Marc Cédile for Louis Vuitton / Party Bag

Photography: Jean-Marc Cédile for Louis Vuitton / Party Bag (Big)

Photography: Philippe Jumin for Louis Vuitton / Petit Marceau

Photography: Philippe Jumin for Louis Vuitton / Sac 2 Poches

Oh man, I think I may need the Papillon with animal charms and Mini
HL with multiple slender handles! What do you think of this
collaboration?