On the occasion of Les Rencontres d’Arles, Louis Vuitton presents at Le Buste et l’Oreille a pop-up bookstore dedicated to Louis Vuitton Editions from July 7th to October 5th, 2026
On the occasion of Les Rencontres d’Arles, Louis Vuitton presents at Le Buste et l’Oreille a pop-up bookstore dedicated to Louis Vuitton Editions from July 7th to October 5th, 2026, featuring a bookstore, an exhibition by Guillaume Blot, and a series of talks and book signings throughout the festival. The House will notably unveil a new edition of the City Guide Arles in collaboration with the Rencontres de la Photographie festival. Featuring guest contributions from Anne-Sylvie Bameule, Julie Gautier and Pauline Capitani, the trio behind the publishing house Actes Sud, as well as numerous previously unpublished images, the guide pays tribute to the city, the people of Arles and to photography. On this occasion, Louis Vuitton is also publishing two new titles in its Fashion Eye photography book collection, further expanding the series ten years after its launch.
The Louis Vuitton City Guide returns to Arles to celebrate the Rencontres de la Photographie
For the eighth consecutive year, the Louis Vuitton City Guide is returning to Arles with a newly updated edition. This guide celebrates the city located in the Camargue region and its globally recognized festivals. Featuring an illustrated overview of the Rencontres d’Arles, along with unpublished portfolios of the city and its region by Flore-Aël Surun of the Tendance Floue collective and Guillaume Blot, this guide highlights imagery. Available in bookstore, the City Guide Arles will also be available for free on the App Store for the duration of the festival.
Throughout the summer, previously unpublished images captured by Guillaume Blot will be on display at Le Buste et l’Oreille. The series focuses on representing the not-so-institutional Camargue institution at Bob’s, a place full of memories where regulars form a loud and warm tribe, loyal to friendly gatherings and wood-fired cooking. Within these walls, which tell tales of decades of bullfights and shows, the memory of Bob (Robert Boyer) lives on. Here, the past always merges with the present, and the weekend’s single-menu lunches frequently spill over into grand celebrations with musicians and singers.
With a catalogue of around a hundred titles, Louis Vuitton Editions is a pioneer in its field, specialising in several collections devoted to travel, art and fashion: city guides, sketchbooks, photo albums, art books and literary works. Because travel is also part of the art of living, Louis Vuitton Editions will be transforming Le Buste et l’Oreille, located in the centre of Arles, into a temporary bookstore and exhibition venue, hosting a series of talks and book-signing sessions with authors and photographers throughout the festival.
At the forefront of trends and attuned to the changes reshaping cities, Louis Vuitton City Guide has been exploring the world’s most prominent metropolises for over twenty years. Today, it features more than forty cities, offering a unique perspective on fashion, design, contemporary art, gastronomy and culture. From Paris, to New York, London and Tokyo, authors and guest contributors from all walks of life offer their personal insights, covering everything from the finest hotels to the best restaurants, the most offbeat fashion addresses and the most iconic historical landmarks.
Two new Louis Vuitton Fashion Eye publications celebrate Bucharest and Ibiza
This summer, in conjunction with the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival, from July 6th to October 4th, Louis Vuitton is adding two new titles to its Fashion Eye collection: Ibiza by Lachlan Bailey, and Bucharest by Paul Kooiker. Sensuousness and precision permeate the photographic portraits of these cities, as Lachlan Bailey captures the ageless hedonism of the White Isle, while Paul Kooiker scrutinises in meticulous detail the “Paris of the Balkans”.
Louis Vuitton Fashion Eye Ibiza
Repeated trips in the off-peak seasons to places where he liked to withdraw from the world in his youth, Lachlan Bailey now brings back something brand new: the wind of freedom that has swept across Ibiza since the hippie era gently infuses each of these timeless images, often captured at sunset. Slender, golden bodies shown at rest or in motion, attuned to the swell of the waves or the pulse of the clubs. For the Balearic island is twofold, and Bailey omits neither side, framing without distinction the calm and the bustle, as well as bougainvillaea and salt marshes, haciendas and fishermen’s huts, all the way to the striking silhouettes of Es Vedrà island and painter Antonio Villanueva. The grain of his images embraces the wild and enduring spirit of this bohemian refuge.
Lachlan Bailey
Born in 1974 in Melbourne, Lachlan Bailey lives and works between New York and Lisbon. After studying at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, he made his debut in London before moving to New York in 2007. Faithful to his Australian roots, he pays particular attention to warm light and island landscapes. Sensitive to the beauty of the body and the texture of skin, he reveals both through carefully staged compositions seamlessly embedded into nature. Influenced by photographers Bill Henson and Lee Friedlander, as well as cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Bailey favours series that tell a story. In 2020, he published the book Natasja in Corales (FRAME, 2020) in collaboration with Erik Torstensson, the co-founder of the fashion brand FRAME. A regular contributor to Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and WSJ magazines, the celebrity portraitist also shoots campaigns for Chanel, Calvin Klein and Jil Sander.
Louis Vuitton Fashion Eye Bucharest
Initially drawn to Ceaușescu’s Palace, Paul Kooiker ultimately shifted his perspective, turning his iPhone towards the city as a whole and its everyday details. Approached as a blank canvas, the Romanian capital gradually constructs itself into a parallel encyclopaedia, blending portraits of Soviet-era housing blocks with those of a younger creative generation. Tightly framed and in colour, their faces humanise and enhance this black and white journal where a pigeon or a cat occasionally appears by chance along streets of endlessly successive, dissimilar façades. A “sense of incompleteness” pervades these three hundred fragments, forming a “layered” vision of the city suspended between a past splendour and an indistinct future.
Paul Kooiker
Born in Rotterdam in 1964, Paul Kooiker lives and works in Amsterdam. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, he has been teaching at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam since the mid-1990s, while continuing to pursue his personal projects. Nurtured by surrealism and conceptual art, his style, at once dreamlike and critical, oscillates between perception and emotion. His curiosity has led him to explore the possibilities of black and white, sepia, Polaroid and, more recently, the iPhone. To date, the artist has published thirteen books, including Room Service (Van Zoetendaal, 2008), Heaven (Van Zoetendaal, 2012), and Eggs and Rarities (Art Paper Editions, 2018). Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1996 and the A. Roland Holst Prize in 2009, the artist also stands out for his fashion series created for the luxury sector.
Both books will be available in bookstores from 19 June 2026.
Courtesy of Louis Vuitton
