Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Match in Black Louis Vuitton Looks for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Gala

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Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom giggled their way down the red carpet on Saturday night at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Gala in Los Angeles, both wearing Louis Vuitton in matching black. The couple has been engaged since Valentine’s Day 2019 and have a beautiful one-year-old daughter, Daisy Dove Bloom, but they were clearly enjoying their night out on the town.

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Bloom kept things simple in a velvet tuxedo jacket over black pants, while Perry wore a latex dress with a peplum waist and yellow piping around the pocket details. The most dramatic change might be Perry’s hair—the pop star has been going out as a blonde for some time now, but she arrived at the gala with a brunette beehive. It could just be a wig for the occasion, but the side bangs certainly accentuated her eyes:

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Perry and Bloom were just two of a night full of stars. The event was celebrating the opening of the new museum, which has been a goal of the Academy for years, and honored Italian actress Sophia Loren and director Haile Gerima, who hails from Ethiopia.

TikTok has been breathing life into one of Perry’s older hits lately after a trend featuring her 2019 hit “Harleys in Hawaii” went viral on the platform, making it her number one song on Spotify right now. She decided to thanks the youths on TikTok for its resurgence on Instagram by showing some scenes of her time in Hawaii, including what she wrote was a “a lil video from the ride that actually inspired Harley’s In Hawaii.”

The video is of her hanging onto Bloom as they ride around the state on a motorcycle smiling and laughing, showing that they are in love on the red carpet and while on vacation.

Frank Gehry designs Louis Vuitton perfume bottle to make you say ‘Oh!’

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This October, Louis Vuitton and Frank Gehry are coming together to launch a groundbreaking collection of perfumes. Les Extraits collection features five new fragrances by the brand’s master perfumer, Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud, in bottles designed by Gehry. Both figures are titans in their respective industries, but this Louis Vuitton perfume collaboration marks a new chapter for them both as they deconstruct and reshape their previous work.

For Cavallier-Belletrud, this means his first collection of perfumes from Louis Vuttion with no top, heart or base notes, the basic building blocks of a typical fragrance. ‘I wanted to venture where no one goes anymore. To reinvent the notion of an Extrait [the most highly concentrated form of perfume] in a contemporary way,’ he says.

For Les Extraits, the perfumer has reassessed perfume’s major families, ‘to give them a twist, expand them, exaggerate certain facets, and reveal purity. In revisiting chapters, florals, chypres, and ambers, you create movement and rounded, caressing forms every time.’

Those ‘rounded, caressing forms’ find their visual counterpart in Gehry’s fragrance bottle, his first ever. The bottle is a continuation, in miniature, of Gehry’s now iconic design of the Fondation Louis Vuitton. The nautically inspired building used 3,600 curved glass panels to create the impression of 12 sails colliding in a mass of fluid, wind-swept lines. This bottle, conceived as the 13th sail, echoes that movement with a curved glass body and a crumpled aluminium top that sways like fabric caught in the wind. A complementary leather case features similar, twisting shapes.

‘How do we make it so captivating that it catches the eye and says something both about the house and its contents?’ muses Gehry. ‘That’s how we started looking at these shapes. We wanted to create something that elicits emotion. That brings a sensation to life. That when you look at it, you say, “Oh!” Then when you smell it, you say, “Ah!”’ §

Rising star: Louis Vuitton’s Star Blossom jewellery collection

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There is a joyful iridescence to jewellery that steals the shine from all else. It is this explosion of resplendent novelty that defines the unexpected talismans of gold and shimmering diamonds that are worshipped in the Star Blossom jewellery collection from Louis Vuitton. The collection embodies the monogram flower, which is an emblem of Maison Louis Vuitton, which became a symbol of femininity in the Star Blossom collection created in 2018. The collection reimagined the iconic star-shaped flower designed by Georges Vuitton in 1896. The collection is a glittering tribute to the star-shaped Monogram.

The bold audacity of its pointed contours, this quatre-foil, is the perfect complement to confident femininity—a delicate blossoming with a fiery star that seeks to carve out the untold tale of a new narrative. The flower with its characteristic pointed petals is showcased in six exquisite jewellery creations: pendants, ear studs, bracelet and a ring. They can be worn as solitary adornment or combined or layered as modern talismans of varying moods.

A nail fashioned out of white gold, evoking the Maison’s trunk-making heritage, lies at the centre of each motif. The collection now includes a vibrant, modern ornamental ear cuff (in picture below) crafted from diamonds and pink gold, that sensually cocoons the ear contour. The elegance, vitality and versatility of the collection enshrines the brand’s intuitive ingenuity when it comes to jewellery expertise.

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