Louis Vuitton has teamed up with acclaimed Swiss contemporary artist Urs Fischer on a multifaceted collaboration that highlights his playfully audacious creative vision across a wide range of leather goods, ready-to-wear, shoes and accessories, as well as eye-catching window displays, instore installations and digital content.

The starting point for this complete collaboration, entitled “Louis Vuitton x Urs Fischer”, is Urs Fischer’s exuberant and ground-breaking reworking of Louis Vuitton’s signature Monogram. As one of the few artists to refashion the House’s iconic pattern completely since its creation in 1896 by Georges Vuitton, Fischer has re-appropriated the Monogram’s flowers and LV initials in new hand-drawn versions that he calls “memory sketches”. The resulting dream-like motifs, which seem to float and move before the eyes, have been meticulously adapted to suit each specific product across this comprehensive collection, changing in size, perspective, colour and application technique.

Available in two colourways, black and red and black and white, this new Monogram is the collaboration’s key decorative motif, and features throughout the collection designs: on two sporty models of low- and high-top sneakers, and strikingly embellishes accessories including two silk-wool shawls, a wool stole, two silk squares, a double-sided padded scarf and a unique padded hood. When printed on sporty ready-to-wear – a T-shirt, zipped jackets, trousers, dresses and a top – it is resized and twisted in new directions that follow the body’s contours.

Seven special-edition bags – a Keepall, Cabas, Onthego, two Neverfulls, Speedys, Pochettes Accessoires, and a charming, hard-sided beauty case – use the Urs Fischer Monogram to particularly impressive effect thanks to an exquisite tuffetage treatment that uses velvet-like material to create extra texture and tactile relief.

The collaboration also features a series of whimsical characters created by Urs Fischer. The enchanting animals and objects are united in a playful print that fills a colourful silk square. Four of the characters – a cat asleep in a banana skin, an avocado meeting an egg, a cat holding a lightbulb, and a bird carrying a peach – also grace window displays.

“Louis Vuitton x Urs Fischer” is both a perfect, large-scale showcase for Urs Fischer’s creative world resulting in must have pieces to keep and cherish for years to come.