Bradley Cooper, Ana de Armas, Cynthia Erivo and More Celebrate Louis Vuitton Store Opening (PHOTOS)
variety.comAnna Tingley Bradley Cooper, Ana de Armas, Cynthia Erivo, Martha Stewart and many more bold-faced names made their way Uptown on Thursday night to celebrate Louis Vuitton’s new store opening on 57th street in Manhattan.The sprawling five-floor building is a temporary store ahead of the multi-year renovation of the Fifth Avenue flagship — whose scaffolding was geniusly transformed into a supersized LV Trunk.
But it’s hard to imagine a more luxe space than the ad-hoc one feted this week, which features a soaring atrium installation and a multi-floor activation highlighting Louis Vuitton’s most iconic collaborations.
The highly Instagrammable Yayoi Kusama installation on the third floor, decked in the designer’s signature colored dots, may just be New York’s answer to the Melrose Pink Wall.Celebrities, influencers and many of Louis Vuitton’s top buyers – most clad in LV monogram — roamed the floors, which featured artisan hand painters, custom live drawings and a very popular martini bar.
After posing for photos, Stewart, flanked by security, made her way to the café on the top floor, where she paid her respects to renowned head chef Christophe Bellanca.Meanwhile, Francesca Scorsese posed for photos in a phone booth activation.
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