The project
In 2022, Fugong Leathercraft Intangible Cultural Heritage Center was invited by Louis Vuitton and VOGUE China to participate in the “Preserving Craftsmanship” project. He Wei and Louis Vuitton creative director Nicolas Ghesquière developed the work over six months.
Deep blue-green lacquer covers the lambskin body. Gold leaf appears within the surface, while metal corners and white rope remain clearly legible as parts of the Malle Gonflée construction.
- Materials
- Lambskin, lacquer, gold leaf, metal and rope
- Made by
- He Wei / Fugong Leathercraft Intangible Cultural Heritage Center
- Creative collaboration
- Nicolas Ghesquière / Louis Vuitton
- Presented
- VOGUE WORLD SHANGHAI, October 2022
Published record
The collaboration was documented in the November 2022 issue of VOGUE China as part of its “Preserving Craftsmanship” project.
At VOGUE WORLD SHANGHAI
The completed work was exhibited at VOGUE WORLD SHANGHAI in October 2022. The project record states that it was subsequently collected by the Louis Vuitton archive in France.
VOGUE WORLD SHANGHAI · exhibition and media photography
Visitors encountering the work in the exhibition
Views of the work
The sequence below keeps the complete object in view—from the front and sides to the reverse and overall form—so that the lacquered surface can be read together with its construction.
