The Most Popular Louis Vuitton Shoes & Sneakers to Shop Now
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Designer sneakers have become one of the most coveted items in the fashion industry, and a pair from Louis Vuitton is no exception.
The French luxury brand may have got its start making leather luggage, but over the past 10 years, Louis Vuitton has built a following for its footwear, too. Crafted at Louis Vuitton’s shoe factory outside of Venice, Italy, the brand has produced a range of notable footwear silhouettes. Louis Vuitton has also teamed up with big names over the years like Kanye West and Supreme to make sneakers that flaunt a hefty price tag.
What makes a Louis Vuitton shoe so expensive? For starters, each pair of Louis Vuitton shoes are meticulously handcrafted by artisans at Louis Vuitton’s Manufacture de Souliers (that’s shoe factory in French). Louis Vuitton’s shoe factory is located in Italy’s historic footwear region along the Riveria del Brenta in a town called Fiesso d’Artico. The region houses most of the world’s luxury footwear production, and has a rich history of shoemaking that dates back to the 13th century.
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Aside from an artisanal line of production, Louis Vuitton sneakers and shoes also come with clout. Many of the shoes feature the same signature monogram logos and colorways as the brand’s handbags tout. Louis Vuitton shoes also have quite the celeb following, from Bella Hadid to Lindsay Lohan.
Bella Hadid in an oversized button-down and Louis Vuitton Archlight sneakers. CREDIT: Splash News
Below, take a look at some of the most popular Louis Vuitton sneakers and shoes that are available online.
Louis Vuitton Archlight Trainer
Since its debut in 2018, the Louis Vuitton Archlight Trainer has become one of the most recognizable designer dad sneakers on the market. The shoe style even has a cult following of celebrities who love to wear the style out and about. Hailey Beiber, Dua Lipa and Bella Hadid have all rocked the shoe, to name a few.
Available in a handful of colorways the Louis Vuitton Archlight Trainer ranges from $1,090 to $1,320 on louisvuitton.com. Shoppers can also look to other retailers such as StockX for limited-edition colorways and resale sites which may have certain sizes available for less.
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Louis Vuitton Bom Dia Flat Mule
Louis Vuitton’s take on the ugly sandal is well-elevated thanks to the brand’s signature LV monogram across the two-strap leather upper. The ugly sandal continues to be one of fashion’s most favorite silhouettes, and there’s no surprise why. Designers such as Louis Vuitton have incorporated the simple silhouette and transformed the slide into an elevated sandal that can even make your t-shirt and leggings combo look luxe.
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Louis Vuitton Run Away Sneaker
A more classic athletic shoe from Louis Vuitton is the brand’s Run Away sneaker. The sporty trainer comes in black or white suede and is retailed at $850. The signature shoe may not be as eye-catching as the Archlight, but will definitely elevate any outfit.
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Louis Vuitton Wonderland Flat Ranger
Combat boots are projected to one of fall ’20’s hottest styles in footwear. This Louis Vuitton combat boot offers luxury and ruggedness thanks to the lace-up boot silhouette. The designer shoe is available in the classic brown LV monogram colorway or sophisticated black on the brand’s website.
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Louis Vuitton Stellar Sneaker
This classic Louis Vuitton sneaker continues to be a staple for the fashion-forward. The low top sneaker comes in a few colorway options and retails for $970 on LV’s site. The lace-up elevated sneaker features a calf leather upper and a vulcanized sole.
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Louis Vuitton x Kanye Jasper Sneaker
Kanye West started working with Louis Vuitton in 2009 with a series of styles including the Jasper Sneaker. The shoe is rumored to have been named after Yeezy’s barber, Jasper. Since the Louis Vuitton x Kanye Jasper Sneaker is limited-edition, shoppers will find the shoe for an average sale price of $5,500 on StockX.
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Louis Vuitton Waterfront Mule
Louis Vuitton’s Waterfront Mule is a luxurious take on the classic slide silhouette that has become popular in recent years. The slip-on sneaker retails for $595, one of the more lower-priced footwear options on louisvuitton.com.
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Louis Vuitton x Kanye West Don Sneaker
Another signature LV shoe is the Louis Vuitton x Kanye West Don Sneaker. The shoe is cleverly named after West’s nickname “Louis Vuitton Don” a self-proclaimed name the rapper gave himself in his 2004 album “College Dropout.” Although this shoe was made in 2009, there are still a few pairs floating around the internet. Shoppers can snag a pair on stockx.com for an average of $2,500.
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Louis Vuitton Cosy Mule Monogram
Slippers have dominated 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic shifting fashion towards more private spaces like the home. The Louis Vuitton Cosy Mule Monogram is the perfect mixture between comfort and luxury thanks to the cozy shearling lining and iconic LV monogram detailing on the denim upper.
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Louis Vuitton Sport x Supreme Sneaker
Supreme always puts the Midas touch on a collab. The Louis Vuitton Sport x Supreme Sneaker is one example of how both brands are able to make a product that’s popular and eye-catching. The sleek leather upper featuring Supreme’s red and white colorway in combination with LV’s monogram trim sits on a smooth chunky sole. Although originally retailed for $905 in 2017, shoppers will find a pair on StockX for $1,000-$1,270.
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Louis Vuitton Frontrow Sneaker
Another emblematic Louis Vuitton shoe is the Frontrow Sneaker. The shoe is LV’s reinterpretation of the classic tennis shoe. The stylish sneaker features the brand’s signature brown and tan monogram colorway for a chic athletic-inspired shoe.
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Louis Vuitton Stellar Sneaker Boot
Louis Vuitton put its classic touch on a high top version of the Stellar Sneaker, as well. Available in a few colorways online, one of our favorites is the denim LV monogram version that retails for $875 on the brand’s site.
Louis Vuitton—yes, that Louis Vuitton—has created a pro skate shoe
Louis Vuitton, the jewel in the crown of LVMH, the world’s largest luxury group, is venturing into new territory. The company, founded as a trunk maker in 1854 and known today for its high-end handbags, has created a pro model skateboarding sneaker.
Virgil Abloh, creative director of Louis Vuitton men’s, revealed on Instagram yesterday that Louis Vuitton had signed “the first skater deal of this type” with professional skateboarder Lucien Clarke of Jamaica, allowing Clarke to design his own pro skateboarding shoe. The first ad featuring the tie-up will appear not in an upcoming issue of a major fashion magazine, but in skate bible Thrasher, according to Abloh. Clarke also posted shots of the ad and the shoe on Instagram.
The deal, while unusual, may not be as surprising as it initially seems. Abloh’s greatest value to Louis Vuitton lies in his ability to create excitement around the brand and help it appeal to a younger, more diverse audience—a growing priority for luxury companies. Skate culture offers one way to do just that.
Skateboarding has been a favorite subculture for fashion to appropriate from. For a time, Thrasher logo t-shirts were practically a staple for off-duty models. Before Abloh took over, Louis Vuitton even linked up with Supreme, a skate brand that was at the forefront of streetwear’s takeover of fashion, in 2017 for a collection under former men’s creative director Kim Jones.
The hype around skate culture has only continued, especially when it comes to sneakers. This year has seen a strong resurgence of the Nike Dunk SB, for example, a style skaters adopted and popularized after its initial introduction as a basketball shoe in 1985. Abloh, meanwhile, has long acknowledged skate culture as an influence and used skate shoes as a template for his footwear designs. He’s an inveterate collaborator, too, most recently partnering with Nigo, founder of Japanese streetwear pioneer A Bathing Ape, on a small Louis Vuitton men’s collection.
The new sneaker and the deal with Clarke bring all these threads together. Details on the shoe’s release, including price, have not yet been revealed. We reached out to representatives of Louis Vuitton for more information.
Even if the shoes don’t sell in giant quantities, they offer the brand a way to add some new edge to its marketing while it continues to make the bulk of its money from products such as classic handbags and fragrances.
Louis Vuitton’s Skate Shoe Epitomises Fashion & Skate’s Love Affair
For the first time in its 166-year history, Louis Vuitton has produced a shoe made specifically for skateboarding. Designed by and for pro skater Lucien Clarke, the still-unnamed shoe breaks the last barrier in skate and fashion’s weird love affair.
At first, a Louis Vuitton shoe that is actually made to be skated in — not just made to look like a skate shoe for aesthetic purposes — seems wrong. After all, what does a luxury French fashion house know about a sport that is defiantly anti-fashion? In fact, the appropriation of skate culture by luxury brands is nothing new, and neither is skating in (and, as a result, destroying) absurdly expensive sneakers.
It’s all part of an on-again, off-again relationship between the sport and a fashion world that, for decades, excluded skaters such as Clarke, but is now clamoring to have them sitting front row in Paris. Clarke and Virgil Abloh’s Louis Vuitton skate shoe is the marriage proposal we’ve all known to be coming for quite some time.
On one side of the aisle, you’ve got brands such as Lanvin and Louis Vuitton putting ’00s skate shoe-inspired sneakers on their runways at Paris Fashion Week. On the other side, you’ve got skaters posting videos of themselves on Instagram skating in expensive Off-White™ x Nike or luxury Louis Vuitton sneakers. A lot of these videos are being reposted by Virgil Abloh, who, having skated himself, acts as a bridge between the two worlds.
Add the fact that one of the most popular skate silhouettes, the Nike SB Dunk, is back in the mainstream limelight and is now seemingly more popular with non-skaters than those the shoe was actually designed for, and it’s easy to see why skaters are attracted by shoes not made for them.
Skateboarding culture is deeply rooted in anti-establishment and anti-fashion — which is not to be confused with not caring about fashion or looking cool, but rather not buying into the hype and values the fashion world peddles to consumers too willing to part with their hard-earned cash.
Instead, skaters are taking $1,000 shoes to the skate park and shredding them to pieces. What’s more anti-fashion than destroying an expensive sneaker? Ironically, fashion — led by Abloh’s Louis Vuitton — has fully embraced skate culture by designing an expensive shoe that was made to be destroyed. It’s here that the Venn diagram of skaters and luxury brands officially overlaps.
Fashion has courted skaters for years, trying to get a slice of their effortless cool, while skaters such as Blondey McCoy and Lucien Clarke have always had an interest in fashion — first as outsiders peering in, and now as certified insiders. After eying each other across the dance floor over the past few years, both cultures have finally grown the balls to ask each other to dance.