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#10,726
I wasn’t a fan of the spring show..... very underwhelming. The flowers on eclipse were colorful but meh nothing special. Where’s the love for DE let me just say again lol. Actually I saw some DE bags but they were covered with green felt like squares that looked like grass.... yeah not feeling it
 
#10,727
fabuleux said:
What did you guys think about the SS20 show?
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What I'm curious about is the full fledged garden pieces. That's something new, probably completely impractical, but beautiful. I like the soft trunks still, but it not something i would get as it's too impractical and I know this already, I would end up never using it. The colors are beautiful especially for spring and I think it's his best collection for lv so far. But there's nothing I would consider getting.
 
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Liberté said:
What I'm curious about is the full fledged garden pieces. That's something new, probably completely impractical, but beautiful. I like the soft trunks still, but it not something i would get as it's too impractical and I know this already, I would end up never using it. The colors are beautiful especially for spring and I think it's his best collection for lv so far. But there's nothing I would consider getting.
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I can’t find anything I would want to buy either. I haven’t purchased a new LV bag in two years. :crybaby:
 
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Liberté said:
I like the soft trunks still, but it not something i would get as it's too impractical and I know this already, I would end up never using it.
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Someone in my building has one of the orange trunks from the pop up here in Chicago. It's very eye catching, but it's huge. It's almost like carrying a small shoebox crossbody. I know that not all the soft trunks are that big, but they all just seem so awkward.

I only visited the outside of the pop up. I wish we would have gotten one when Kim Jones was the creative director. I'm just not feeling much of Virgil Abloh's stuff.
 
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ultravisitor said:
The sad thing is that we might not like it, I believe there are plenty of people who do like it. I just saw two more of those orange shoeboxes on people yesterday while I was on Michigan Avenue. They were walking side by side.
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It's a fact that VA is very popular with part of the Vuitton clients while his collections alienate others...
In my opinion, his best contributions so far are the launch of the Steamer bag as a day bag for men and the relaunch of the Sac Plat. :smile:
 
#10,737
After many decades, I am returning to Louis Vuitton! And all I had to do was go down to the garage, find the right storage box, take out the bags and give them a good clean.

Back in the 1980s I had a job with a major French company, and I was based in Paris. I used one of the bland black hard bodied ubiquitous briefcases, and my new French GF dragged me to a store and insisted that I buy a LV bag. I actually bought a Serviette Fermoir in Monogram - in Paris even in those days it was OK to carry something like that. My father was slightly shocked when I turned up with it in the UK. I loved the Gladstone type opening - so easy to access documents.

A few months later (maybe a year later) I bought a Ministre Document bag, also in Monogram. I actually paid for this on a company credit card, as a legitimate work requirement. It was great for taking technical dyeline drawings into meetings with clients. I kept it when I resigned many years later.

By the late 80s the world had changed. I had been posted to Australia, and I carried a much larger soft briefcase. My client visits could involve travelling all over Australia, and I needed to take a lot of things with me. The clients were big rough mining sites - a Mongram LV briefcase would NOT be a good idea. By the 90s I was carrying big heavy laptops, and was using a backpack. The LV bags were forgotten at the back of the wardrobe.

In the 90s I was earning a fortune in a new career, and travelling all over Asia. Over the years I bought a couple of other LV bags - a green Tagia and a brown EPI Serviette in Japan. I can offer no sensible explanation as to why. Money and boredom I guess. The EPI bag actually did a lot of air miles with me, and had quite a hard life, jammed full of laptop and documents, thrown into the overhead locker on countless flights each week. The Taiga less so.

Eventually life changed again. The Asian Financial Crisis came along, I got divorced, I went back to university then started working in a new field. The LV bags were packed into boxes and forgotten. They were in a storage container for years, then at the back of the garage. I used those free laptop bags that Dell, Lenovo/IBM, etc gave away. Laptops were still big and heavy, and you needed to carry a big charger with them.

Then came new changes and challenges. My Macbook Airs were thin and light, and would run all day on a charge. Most of my work was in city offices. Nylon backpacks looked cheap and utilitarian. I bought a nice thin black Oroton soft leather briefcase. Life was good.

I recentyl walked past the new LV store in Sydney. I went in and looked at briefcases. Lots of memories of days in Paris decades ago. I did not buy one, instead I decided to check out my old ones. I found the two Monograms packed in a cardboard box, at the bottom of the pile. No sign of the others. Ex wives, girlfriends, thieves, have all taken their toll on my possessions.

They arent perfect. The canvas is fine, as is the leather. There was a lot of mould, a LOT of mould. It has all wiped off, and has not affected the exterior. The Fermoir has acquired a rather disgusting smell. Not sure if that is fixable, but i assume so.

Both interiors have problems. The zip pocket on the Fermoir has stuck together for some reason. pulling it apart was like opening a resealable sticky envelope. I used that pocket a lot, and maybe I left something in it. The zip pocket on the Ministre is even more strange. The finish has turned to powder, like Mrs Havershams wedding breakfast. If you rubbed inside, the lining all came out as brown dust. I really have no idea about this. I actually used a stiff brush and dust buster, and got it all off.

I am not sure want to do next. Take them to LV for repair? Leave them and use them as they are? Put them back in the box for another 30 years?.

Any thoughts?
 
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captaincustard said:
After many decades, I am returning to Louis Vuitton! And all I had to do was go down to the garage, find the right storage box, take out the bags and give them a good clean.

Back in the 1980s I had a job with a major French company, and I was based in Paris. I used one of the bland black hard bodied ubiquitous briefcases, and my new French GF dragged me to a store and insisted that I buy a LV bag. I actually bought a Serviette Fermoir in Monogram - in Paris even in those days it was OK to carry something like that. My father was slightly shocked when I turned up with it in the UK. I loved the Gladstone type opening - so easy to access documents.

A few months later (maybe a year later) I bought a Ministre Document bag, also in Monogram. I actually paid for this on a company credit card, as a legitimate work requirement. It was great for taking technical dyeline drawings into meetings with clients. I kept it when I resigned many years later.

By the late 80s the world had changed. I had been posted to Australia, and I carried a much larger soft briefcase. My client visits could involve travelling all over Australia, and I needed to take a lot of things with me. The clients were big rough mining sites - a Mongram LV briefcase would NOT be a good idea. By the 90s I was carrying big heavy laptops, and was using a backpack. The LV bags were forgotten at the back of the wardrobe.

In the 90s I was earning a fortune in a new career, and travelling all over Asia. Over the years I bought a couple of other LV bags - a green Tagia and a brown EPI Serviette in Japan. I can offer no sensible explanation as to why. Money and boredom I guess. The EPI bag actually did a lot of air miles with me, and had quite a hard life, jammed full of laptop and documents, thrown into the overhead locker on countless flights each week. The Taiga less so.

Eventually life changed again. The Asian Financial Crisis came along, I got divorced, I went back to university then started working in a new field. The LV bags were packed into boxes and forgotten. They were in a storage container for years, then at the back of the garage. I used those free laptop bags that Dell, Lenovo/IBM, etc gave away. Laptops were still big and heavy, and you needed to carry a big charger with them.

Then came new changes and challenges. My Macbook Airs were thin and light, and would run all day on a charge. Most of my work was in city offices. Nylon backpacks looked cheap and utilitarian. I bought a nice thin black Oroton soft leather briefcase. Life was good.

I recentyl walked past the new LV store in Sydney. I went in and looked at briefcases. Lots of memories of days in Paris decades ago. I did not buy one, instead I decided to check out my old ones. I found the two Monograms packed in a cardboard box, at the bottom of the pile. No sign of the others. Ex wives, girlfriends, thieves, have all taken their toll on my possessions.

They arent perfect. The canvas is fine, as is the leather. There was a lot of mould, a LOT of mould. It has all wiped off, and has not affected the exterior. The Fermoir has acquired a rather disgusting smell. Not sure if that is fixable, but i assume so.

Both interiors have problems. The zip pocket on the Fermoir has stuck together for some reason. pulling it apart was like opening a resealable sticky envelope. I used that pocket a lot, and maybe I left something in it. The zip pocket on the Ministre is even more strange. The finish has turned to powder, like Mrs Havershams wedding breakfast. If you rubbed inside, the lining all came out as brown dust. I really have no idea about this. I actually used a stiff brush and dust buster, and got it all off.

I am not sure want to do next. Take them to LV for repair? Leave them and use them as they are? Put them back in the box for another 30 years?.

Any thoughts?
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post @captaincustard. Although I own several LV bags/slg’s I have not had to take any in for repair yet. I think that this would be the place to start though. I have seen other members who have posted repairs and I recently saw a Speedy irl that had the handles replaced for the second time and I was quite impressed. You mentioned that the canvas is in good shape and this seems to be what is important.
 
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Update:
My wife just pointed out that the green Taiga is actually wrapped in newspaper at the bottom of the box where the Monogram bags were. Again lots of mould, that wiped off and the bag with a quick polish looks like it came out of the Tokyo dealer last week. I just put a Macbook in it. As I posted earlier, it hardly had any use when I bought it, as circumstances changed shortly after.

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The document bag has cleaned up fine, the powdery dust of the pocket lining has vacuumed out completely, and it is totally useable.

The Fermoir is beautiful outside, but the centre pocket is a big sticky gluelike mess. Much worse than I had first thought. I did a load of googling, and spent a few hours with paper towels and nail varnish remover. Horrible sticky job, working in a narrow pocket that sticks to my hands with every move. 80% done, I tried another solution - pouring talcum powder into the pocket. This weekend I will have another go with nail varnish remover. Last resort, I will either stop using the centre pocket, or take the bag into LV and ask them to fit a new pocket.

Or I could just put them all in the box, or throw them in the bin, and buy a new one from the LV store.
 
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