RIDDLE ME THIS: Loewe‘s Puzzle bag is a dialog starter, and YouTube is loaded with movies of ladies and men flaunting their collections of the origami-like type, discussing the professionals and cons of the design, debating which measurement is greatest — and fretting about it probably being discontinued sooner or later.
To not fear: The Spanish model is marking the tenth anniversary of the Puzzle with 19 reeditions from previous collections, together with a brand new model adorned with 1000’s of tiny leather-based sequins.
The latter type winks to the confetti cubes that Italian artist Lara Favaretto created for the model’s fall 2023 ladies’s present, which started crumbling from the vibrations of the fashions stomping previous.
A Loewe Puzzle bag slathered with leather-based confetti.
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The reeditions additionally exalt the home’s hyperlinks to artists and artwork actions — and its devotion to craft. Appliqué, embroidery, embossing, printing, cross-stitch, patchwork and leather-based marquetry are among the many many strategies which have been utilized over time to the Puzzle, itself a feat of artisanal engineering given its novel cuboid building.
In the meantime, motifs from William Morris, Joe Brainard, Ken Value and Charles Rennie Waterproof coat add shade, sample and whimsy.
The model, managed by French luxurious group LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, is planning a full-court press across the Loewe Puzzle 10 assortment, together with pop-up areas at Bergdorf Goodman in New York and Harrods in London, plus exhibitions on the Genesis Artwork Gallery in Beijing and Dopeness Artwork Lab in Taiwan.
As well as, Loewe artisans will journey to pick cities to reveal the development strategies behind the Puzzle, created beneath its longtime artistic director Jonathan Anderson.
The anniversary baggage drop Thursday on loewe.com and at choose Loewe boutiques. Every is completed with a steel plaque, suede lining and two balloon charms. Particular gold-foil packaging consists of — what else? — a special-edition jigsaw puzzle.
The William Morris reedition of the Puzzle bag.
