Two relics of the old guard try something new in these print ads for Marc Jacobs/Louis Vuitton, featuring Madonna. Variant.
There’s a lot going on — those stringy shoes, chunky witch doctor bangles and a hair skirt, of all bloody things — but like we said to our friend Jeremy Dante (who passed the ads over), Madonna’s career is a defiant chin-jut to an industry that swallows young divas, warps their minds and spits them out as lesser animals.
She’s an edgy classic, imperfect, unbridled but timeless — and that’s a niche LV can do something with.
