Sun Yitian turns Louis Vuitton Women’s Prefall 2024 Collection into a work of art

Louis Vuitton is collaborating with artist Sun Yitian in the Women’s Prefall 2024 Collection. For his first collaboration with a luxury fashion house, the artist transforms his works into wearable pieces that combine high craftsmanship.

Louis Vuitton is creating a striking collaboration with artist Sun Yitian as part of its first ‘Voyager’ fashion show in Shanghai on April 18. The artist is known for his photorealistic paintings on toys and other mass-produced objects; is collaborating with the Maison for a special series that colorfully revives the Prefall Women’s Collection, which includes ready-to-wear, leather goods, trunks, accessories and perfumes.

Born in 1991 in Zhejiang, China, Sun Yitian currently lives and works in Beijing. Throughout his career, the artist opened personal exhibitions in galleries in important art cities such as Paris, Berlin, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Sun Yitian, who examines the conflict between ‘Chinese Origin’ mass-produced products and artistic value in his works, transforms objects that initially do not attract attention or have little value, into a gallery and museum-level work, with his unique understanding of art. For his first collaboration with a luxury fashion house, the artist transforms his works into wearable pieces with high craftsmanship. Sun Yitian for this collaboration; He imagines toy-like animal figures such as a pink rabbit, yellow duck, spotted dog, leopard, zebra, penguin and swan. These figures playfully interact with iconic and everyday pieces as the latest collection series in which contemporary artists bring their different worlds into the Louis Vuitton universe.

Sun Yitian comments on the collaboration: “The connection between the paintings on the canvas and the viewer is somewhat static and silent, a form of observation made from a certain distance. But when my artworks are transformed into clothes, bags or perfumes, they become much closer to people, and the interaction is dynamic and unpredictable. “It almost creates an equal usage relationship.”

The design process of the collection includes in-depth discussions between Sun Yitian and Louis Vuitton, where creativity in different materials and techniques turns into design. Extra-large and subtly playful, the artwork makes a bold statement as print or embroidery on ready-to-wear, complementing Louis Vuitton Women’s Collections Artistic Director Nicolas Ghesquière’s Prefall silhouettes. Whether it’s a cheerfully grinning leopard on a petal pink coat or skirt, a duck in profile on a sky blue hooded windbreaker, or a stuffed rabbit with Monogram flower-shaped eyes adorning the front of an A-line dress or T-shirt, these looks exude a bright, youthful energy. gives signals.