“I was somewhat amazed not to see a single handbag in the first show,” says LVMH honcho Bernard Arnault toward the beginning of Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton, a documentary by Lo?c Prigent. “However, he has made up for it since.” The film, screened last night for a capacity crowd of fashion lovers at FIT, delves into Jacobs' transatlantic roles at the helm of both Louis Vuitton, the leathergoods powerhouse for which he inaugurated ready-to-wear in 1997, and his own fearlessly quirky label.Offer cheap replica Versace japanesefakerolexwatches and sell at a discount. It's a rare behind-the-scenes look at the designer and his team at work on two spring 2007 collections in Manhattan and then Paris, interrupted only by a triumphant trip to Tokyo, where Vuitton held a champagne-soaked encore presentation of the previous season's looks in a translucent pod erected for the occasion. “The things you have to do to gain new markets!” LVMH exec Yves Carcelle tells Prigent with a grin, yelling over a live set by Grace Jones.

In six months of fly-on-the-wall filming of Jacobs and interviews with the likes of Sofia Coppola and Larry Gagosian, Prigent was most stunned by a member of the Vuitton creative team he met while on the Tokyo trip. “I asked her what she did, and she told me ‘I'm here for the belts. In case one hole is not right and they need another hole. That's what I do,'” he explained in a Q&A following the screening. “The belt girl blew me away. Keep in mind that they were putting on the same show as they had a couple of months before—with the exact same models.” Prigent also singled out “the bag people” at Vuitton as particularly…innovative. “They had all these unbelievable ideas,” he said,These skirts are a complete collection of every model available.For more detailed search information about christianlouboutinsh , having been allowed to film design meetings but required to blur the “mood boards” lest competitors' steal ideas. “It was all this crazy stuff, things with Mickey Mouse. Crazy!”

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Having recently completed films for French TV about Elbar Albaz (“quite funny”) and Isabel Marant (“French girls are totally obsessed with her”), Prigent is now at work on a documentary about Yves Saint Laurent‘s final haute couture show. “I always do ‘the day before,' so now I'm doing ten years later,” he said. “I'm doing the interviews now—the models in the show,bay sensing and enforcement royaloak. people who were there—and everyone is crying.”