Louis Vuitton Celebrates Frank Gehry On Its Windows

Frank Gehry, he of the iconic titanium clad curving and swooping architecture, will be all over Louis Vuitton's store windows come September. His signature waves of metal that are at once fluid and structural will be on display with the French luxury brand's leather goods and ready-to-wear.

Why Gehry? This is in celebration of the opening of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, an architectural marvel of a museum designed by Gehry for LVMH's Bernard Arnault. The Fondation Louis Vuitton cost around $135 million and took twelve years to complete according to a story in the September issue of American Vogue. It will house contemporary art collections. The Fondation Louis Vuitton is located in Paris' Bois de Boulogne. Unlike Gehry's other architectural feats — namely the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles with their sweeping curves of metal walls — the Fondation Louis Vuitton exterior structure has curved glass surfaces that were inspired by sails being blown by the wind.

The Gehry-Louis Vuitton windows will feature sail-like sculptures made from wood then clad in metal, some of them overlapping with one another. "They are like sails filled by a following wind. We've called them Wind Wings." explains Gehry.

The windows will be on display starting September 3. Until then, here are a couple of images of how they will look like.

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