This week Louis Vuitton will be celebrating the launch of the Stephen Sprouse collection in their Soho flagship store. For the occasion the store will be entirely wrapped in Stephen Sprouse graffiti and among the special items to release is also the above skateboard.
“For instance, the company is wrapping the store in vinyl and spray painting neon graffiti all over the facade. The window display will feature a 6-foot neon light installation in Sprouse’s Rose motif. The store’s interior, enhanced with black brick wall facing, will also be sprayed with the neon graffiti.
The collection will launch in its entirety at the SoHo boutique on Thursday. The complete worldwide launch will follow on Feb. 2, though the Rose pieces will be available at Louis Vuitton stores worldwide starting Friday.
For the launch, the luxury goods company is also creating two limited edition pieces, which will only be available at the SoHo location: a Stephen Sprouse graffiti skateboard replete with a hard case monogram skateboard trunk, and a Stephen Sprouse “Roses” T-shirt. The company hopes to sell three graffiti skateboards with trunks for $8,250 each, and 70 T-shirts for $250 each. “I don’t expect them to last very long,” Lalonde said. “By Friday, there probably won’t be any more left.” “Via WWD.
The price tag of the skateboard is definitely pretty high, but it is a great collectors item.
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Werd, that trunk is sick.
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Are you insane?? This is one of the lamest collabs ever. If anyone who buys one of these can even stand on the trunk without falling off, let alone the board, I will eat the \’orrible BAPE trainers they are no doubt wearing as they do so. Stick to over-priced tat for dead-eyed Euro-trash heiresses, LV. What next – the Stella McCartney fixie? Actually, scrap that – it probably exists in some marketing moron\’s head just waiting to be still-born.
This could probably be one of the most disturbing things ive ever seen, who cares if its a collectors item, LV and chanel (with that awful snowboard) all these other brands need to stop trying to take a culture and rape it for there own gain, let kanye and pharrell buy this shit POSERS!!!!!
Not so sure about the skateboard but am super excited to see how they deck out the store, definitely worth checking out!!
this is so lame i cant even believe it. what the hell does lv have to do with skate and or grap culture.
stop trying to make yourself cool by co-opting others culture. ugh
paris hilton skates?
come on, what have the street culture with Louis Vuitton? Some antagonical stuff, almost like the Hamas and Israel state, there could be an harmonical life together? Just a lie.
LAME ! What\’s next ?! .. Bentley asking Tony Hawk to design a f___ing car ?!
Wow! Louis Vitton, REALLY GETS ME!
I mean I skateboard, and I can\’t wait to spend 6 months of rent on a trunk and on a substandard skateboard.
It\’s like they weren\’t a Bourgeois luxury trunk company, that has been profiting off of the vanity of the bloatedly rich, and all who wish to imitate their look in order to seem more important, and more like a streetwise, below the radar, young subversive company with my age group (18-24) truly in mind!
Wow I really can\’t wait to get my hands on this Collectible, so I can turn it around for twice the price to some idiot that actually thinks it\’d be cool to own.
Dog! This is some bull ass shit! WTF, does Louis have to do with skating?! I swear man, we must be in some sort of recession if brands like Loui V have to step down their lil pedistools and make dollars off us. Sick, sad world!
Soo negative are you people..
I like it!!
You all need to do your homework before you go spouting off some shit. Sprouse and LV collabed back in 2001, while he was still alive, doing the same type of shit. Do you even know who Stephen Sprouse is? This all would make sense if you actually knew what you were talking about. You should be thanking Sprouse for giving an identity to \
/ “your culture”. Fucking rookies. Go to wikipedia, look him up and then come up with a witty reply and come back here and tell me that you knew who he was all along and it’s still bullshit. At least you’ll be informed in your opinion.
El, I have looked him up on wikipedia on your request and there is next to nothing about skateboarding on there.
if Sprouse really believed in skateboarding and anything to do with that culture and was alive today he would have to be be disgusted with the price tag for this shit. No one is disputing his work in fashion or the art world but an eight grand skateboard isn\\\’t a \\\’homage\\\’, its just mad profiteering on the part of Lois Vuitton. Im sure plenty of rich idiots will buy it.
Food for thought : although he\\\’s not dead, the Marc Jacobs / Vans shoe collab sells for $40.
philistines, who the fuck cares if you can\’t afford it? Not the guys who\’s gonna buy it.
There\’s a reason why its expensive– ITS Louis Vuitton!! This is what has been going on in the sneaker and skate culture for years and now you can see for yourself. Exclusivity is the only reason why we buy this shit, same with brands such as nike and all that bull. Kanye or Pharrell could of influenced these guys for all we know but in the end we\’d be fucken gratified just to cope one more item that very few or none own in the world.
Brand name + Famous Collabed Artist/ Famous under the radar brands= profits
unless you\’re involve, the makers or industry won\’t give two shits.
louis vuitton gotta be out they rabbit ass mind that shit tight work tho if i had it to blow believe i would buy the shit
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