This small but very sophisticated, immersive exhibition, charting the history and the current trends in the world of Louis Vuitton is definitely worth visiting.
And you honestly don’t really need to carve out a huge chunk of time to visit, since it is compact and if you choose an early time slot, like we did – opening time on a Sunday morning – there aren’t too many people to contend with either.
The exhibition is free, but you have to book your time slot online. I’d booked for 10.30am, thinking it would take us longer to get to Gaysom Amarin than it did, so we actually got there just as they were opening up and the 10 o’clock people were going in.
No issues, and in we went half an hour ahead of schedule, with the polite English-speaking young man on duty pointing out, as he checked our online passes, that my phone battery was low 🙂
With such a striking backdrop, lots of posing for photos was inevitable (the youngsters, not us!!) but this being Thailand, the group doing multiple takes in the first room politely told us to go ahead.
I loved the older, heritage pieces, such as the 1885 camp cot (below)
LOVE the name of this bag (below)…can you guess it?
It’s called a “Neverfull” and dates from 1910. Smashing, right?
I am actually quite a fan of LV, and have some bags that are almost as vintage as their owner.
But I never rose to the dizzy heights of owning super items like this 1926 shoe and hat trunk (below) clearly designed for a more leisurely mode of transport than today’s packed flights:
The modern avatars of the LV brand were displayed in a pretty funky way:
Fun.
Short & sweet.
Plus you get a free gift as you leave 🙂
Hubby dearest getting his thank you for visiting gift – a set of LV postcards.
You exit the exhibition straight into the store, and there’s also a LV café.
I read online that the exhibition, which opened at the end of Feb this year, will be in Bangkok (and I quote timeout.com) for “about a year” so there’s still plenty of time to go and visit.
Oh, obviously no-one at the exhibition knew that I blog and write reviews 🙂
Man the rich and famous always stay rich and famous