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HTSI Magazine Celebrates Nicolas Ghesquière and 10 Years at Louis Vuitton
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As Louis Vuitton artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière [IG] celebrates his 10-year anniversary with the brand, as well as the renewal of his contract for another five years, HTSI Magazine [IG] launches a huge celebration around the designer, the label and the muses.
Ethan James Green photographed Ghesquière himself for a HTSI [Financial Times How to Spend It] interview with the designer ‘First, we have fun’: Nicolas Ghesquière on a decade at Louis Vuitton.
Bibi Cornejo Borthwick with WeFolk [IG] agency photographs the 10 models, talents and ambassadors for these remaining images, styled by Isabelle Kountoure.
Models and talents expand on HTSI’s IG comments quoted on AOC in a separate online article. They appear in chronological order of their first project with Nicolas Ghesquire for Louis Vuitton.
Read MoreLous and The Yakuza Covers Vogue France October 2022 by Anthony Seklaoui
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Marie-Pierra Kakoma, known professionally as Lous and the Yakuza, is a Congolese-Belgian singer, rapper, songwriter, model, and artist. The rising talent now adds cover star for Vogue France’s October 2022 issue to her growing list of titles.
The musical talent is styled by Vanessa Reid in glittering, futuristic fashion suitable for a 21st century muse. Fashion photographer Anthony Seklaoui [IG] is on the set.
The artist is a favorite of Louis Vuitton — and wears Vuitton on the cover and inside pages of her Vogue France cover story.
Read MoreLouis Vuitton SS 2022 Sunglasses Campaign Lensed by Steven Meisel
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Supermodel Karlie Kloss; songwriter, singer and rapper Lous and the Yakuza; and new Louis Vuitton ambassador actor Millie Bobby Brown front the Spring-Summer 2022 Louis Vuitton sunglasses campaign, lensed by Steven Meisel.
Read MoreLous and the Yakuza by Hunter & Gatti for Madame Figaro France March 25, 2022
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Marie-Pierra Kakoma known professionally as Lous and the Yakuza, is a Congolese-Belgian singer, rapper, songwriter, model, and artist. Carine Roitfeld styles Lous in an all Louis Vuitton fashion story lensed by Hunter & Gatti [IG] for the March 25th issue of Madame Figaro France.
Describing the artist after the debut of her 2020 album ‘Gore’, Geneva Abdul wrote:
With words sung and rapped in French, Lous and the Yakuza feels like a distinctly globalized project, interweaving Kakoma’s Belgian-Congolese-Rwandan background with eclectic influences including politics past and present, manga comics, Mozart and Whitney Houston.
Lous Is Soul for a Child of War
As for her name Lous, it’s an anagram of soul, the music of the soul, explains the richly-endowed talent in a Madame Figaro story that accompanies her Louis Vuitton fashion images.
At 25, she's an old soul in a young woman's body, the daughter of two doctors a Rwandan mother and a Congolese father, both doctors engaged in humanitarian work. Lous herself is focused on opening a medical clinic in Rwanda, following in the footsteps of her mother’s status as a pediatrician.
Both of Lous’ parents were imprisoned during the the second Congo war in 1998.
Lous cannot speak of all the tribes in her ancestry, because they are at war with each other. The gender-fluid music activist acknowledges being part of the Kalwena ethnic group as expressed in Swahili.
Tribute to Amanda
In a very moving paragraph of her Madame Figaro interview, Lous speaks to her translation of Amanda Gorman’s book ‘The Hill We Climb’. Gorman recited the original poem created for US president Joe Biden’s graduation. Gorman wrote: "We will make this wounded world a marvelous world." — a narrative that inspires so many of us, no matter the color of our skin.
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Being a Louis Vuitton Muse
Translated: “The story that I have woven with Louis Vuitton was born from my simple and sweet encounter with the greatest designer that I had the opportunity to meet, Nicolas Ghesquière. I appreciated the risk he took by offering me to be muse when I was not yet known. It is an extraordinary prestige for me to have closed two shows for Louis Vuitton. I like the values of this house and the way it respects women.”
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