The global collection spans five thematic capsules, bringing the American artist’s iconic visual language to women’s ready-to-wear, leather goods, travel pieces, footwear, accessories, and fragrance
Louis Vuitton will launch an extensive collection celebrating the work of American artist Keith Haring (1958–1990) on January 1, 2027, translating his distinctive visual language across a broad range of the House’s women’s creations. Developed in collaboration with the Keith Haring Foundation, the collection encompasses bags, leather goods, travel pieces, ready-to-wear, footwear, accessories, and fragrance, bringing together some of the artist’s most recognizable figures, symbols, and graphic compositions with the Maison’s craftsmanship and technical expertise.
The project builds on the creative dialogue established by Nicolas Ghesquière, Artistic Director of Louis Vuitton Women’s Collections, through the House’s Cruise 2027 show at New York’s Frick Collection. Conceived as a tribute to the city that shaped Haring’s life and artistic vision, the collection explored the relationship between downtown creative culture and uptown cultural institutions. Selected ready-to-wear, bags, and accessories incorporated Haring’s signature imagery, while the discovery of a 1930s Louis Vuitton suitcase hand-painted by the artist in 1984 revealed a direct historical connection between Haring and the House. That discovery provided the impetus for a wider exploration of his work.
Emerging from New York’s downtown art scene in the 1980s, Haring developed a visual language defined by energetic line drawings, vibrant color, and accessible public imagery. Motifs including the radiant baby, dancing figures, running heart, and other recurring symbols became central to his work, which continues to resonate through its themes of optimism, humanity, and collective expression. The collection draws on this recognizable vocabulary while examining its relationship with Louis Vuitton’s archival designs and established codes.
The collection is organized into five thematic capsules. Genesis takes inspiration from the Louis Vuitton porte-habit customized by Haring in 1984, translating its historical connection into patina-effect natural calfskin, archival-inspired labels, and the artist’s radiant baby motif. The designs extend across historic bag shapes, Monogram travel pieces, leather jackets, knitwear, silk accessories, Attrape-Rêves fragrance, and a skateboard, connecting the artist’s intervention with the House’s tradition of collectible objects.
Brazil draws on one of Haring’s graphic compositions from the final chapter of his career, using interlocking forms, saturated colors, and rhythmic patterns across City Bags, hard-sided luggage, and silk accessories. Selected pieces incorporate quieter passages that reveal the Louis Vuitton Monogram beneath the artwork, bringing the visual identities of the artist and the House into closer dialogue.
Figures focuses on Haring’s signature line drawings, including the running heart and dancing figures, across City Bags, trunks, silk carrés, footwear, sneakers, and knitwear. Patches, meanwhile, references the customized denim jeans Haring frequently wore, translating his practice of personalizing everyday clothing into Monogram jacquard denim bags and shoes, alongside a trompe-l’œil knit design. The final capsule, Maze, applies one of the artist’s intricate all-over compositions to embroidered bags and dresses, using dense networks of lines and saturated color to create a more immersive interpretation of his work.
Alongside the five capsules, the collection includes The Keith Haring Artycapucines Collection, comprising thirteen highly limited-edition interpretations of Louis Vuitton’s Capucines bag. The pieces showcase the House’s craftsmanship and technical capabilities through individual treatments of Haring’s imagery, extending the collaboration into its collectible accessories offering.
By bringing Haring’s work into contact with its archives, product categories, and established design codes, Louis Vuitton extends a relationship between fashion and contemporary art that has become an important part of the House’s creative identity. The Keith Haring Collection will be available in Louis Vuitton stores worldwide beginning January 1, 2027.
