Helen PapagiannisAugust 31, 2022louis vuitton, luxury brand, AR, Augmented Reality, Fashion, NFT

LOUIS 200 AR

Helen PapagiannisAugust 31, 2022louis vuitton, luxury brand, AR, Augmented Reality, Fashion, NFT

Louis Vuitton’s “200 Trunks 200 Visionaries” Exhibition Features AR Pioneer Helen Papagiannis

“200 TRUNKS, 200 VISIONARIES: THE EXHIBITION” has travelled to Beverly Hills for the third stop on its international tour. Initially conceived to celebrate Louis Vuitton’s bicentennial birthday, this ambitious homage heads onward from its debut in Asnières at the Louis Vuitton family house to Singapore Marina Bay Sands to North Rodeo Drive near the Beverly Hills flagship. Helen Papagiannis — one of the visionaries featured — created an Augmented Reality trunk for visitors to experience and discover. The artworks will also be on auction at Sotheby’s with all proceeds to charity.

Helen Papagiannis’s LOUIS 200 Augmented Reality trunk on view at “200 TRUNKS, 200 VISIONARIES” Louis Vuitton exhibition in Beverly Hills. Photo: Karl Hab.

The LOUIS 200 robot greets visitors at the entryway to the “200 TRUNKS, 200 VISIONARIES” Louis Vuitton exhibition. Photo: Karl Hab.

"The LOUIS 200 Augmented Reality (AR) artwork is a celebration of the magic of creation. The trunk is re-envisioned as a window into the creative process, a vessel for imagination and innovation. For Monsieur Louis Vuitton’s 200 birthday, I present an abundant future garden blooming with possibilities and pulsing with life. The seeds of creativity and inspiration for this new world are seen through the glass vessel, revealing a network of ideas and hopes, the roots for creation. AR is a means to make the invisible now visible; this ethereal dreamscape enters our physical reality as a metaphor for creativity and the human imagination."