KENT & CO PRODUCTIONS provided local production services to Lock Studios to support film and photo shoots in Johannesburg for the artist collaboration between LOUIS VUITTON and Billie Zangewa for the ‘Artycapucines Collection Nummer 5’.
A South African-based artist born in Malawi, Billie Zangewa celebrates the amalgamation of gender, identity and race in a socio-economic context through raw silk assemblages. Deliberately using unevenly stitched patchworks of raw silk, she creates landscapes and portraits. Transposing her 2020 oeuvre entitled ‘The Swimming Lesson’, Zangewa’s Artycapucines bag depicts her son Mika on the edge of a glistening pool, adorned with handstitched beads and metallic thread to create a sparkling reflection, as well as three Monogram penguin charms.
A recurrent theme of her piece, gold detailing outlines the pool edge and continues along the top of the bag until it reaches the metallic LV signature. “I have a love of texture and tactility so working with fabric was almost inevitable.” – Billie Zangewa.
LOUIS VUITTON’s Artycapucines Collection combines the Maison’s emblematic Capucines with the unique vision of five meanwhile leading contemporary artists. The Capucines bag, named after the Paris street Rue Neuve-des-Capucines on which Louis Vuitton opened his first store in 1854, has become a canvas for artistic expression ever since the Artycapucines Collection was founded in 2019.
Photographer: @ulrichknoblauch_
DOP: @rosshillierfilms
1st AC: @jeanpierrewhitfield
Production by Kent & Co. Productions @robbiejkent @kentandco_prod
Kent & Co. Productions is a global full-service production company of consistently high standards. Founded by Producer Robert Kent, this independently-owned company specializes in high-end stills and motion campaigns for the fashion and advertising industries. Its clients and collaborators include leading fashion brands, international creatives and advertising agencies.
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