This summer, Louis Vuitton marks its collaboration with Rencontres d'Arles by publishing a new edition of City Guide: Arles. Featuring three guest contributors who lead the French publishing house Actes Sud — Anne-Sylvie Bameule, Julie Gautier, and Pauline Capitani — alongside numerous previously unpublished photographs, the guidebook pays tribute to the city of Arles, the people who live there, and photography itself. During the festival, Louis Vuitton will open a pop-up bookstore at the wine shop Le Buste et l'Oreille in the heart of Arles, combining a bookshop and an exhibition, along with talks and signing events. Two new photobooks from the Fashion Eye collection also join the lineup.
Since 2018, the Louis Vuitton City Guide has published new editions paying tribute to Arles, a city in the Camargue region, and its world-renowned festival. In addition to an illustrated overview of Rencontres d'Arles, this guidebook features an image-focused layout, including a previously unpublished portfolio capturing the city of Arles and its surrounding area by Flore-Aël Surun and Guillaume Blot of the photography collective Tendance Floue. The book will be available in bookstores, and can also be enjoyed for free via the App Store during the festival.
This summer, previously unpublished photographs newly shot by Guillaume Blot will be exhibited at Le Buste et l'Oreille. The series captures Bob's, a restaurant that could be considered another landmark of the Camargue. It is a place full of memories, where regulars form a lively, warm community that loves casual gatherings and wood-fired cooking. Within this space, which speaks to a long history of bullfighting and shows, the memory of Bob — Robert Boyer — still lives on.
Here, past and present are always intertwined, and weekend lunches built around a single set menu often develop into lively celebrations featuring musicians and singers. Through multiple series dedicated to travel, art, and fashion — including City Guide, Travel Book, Fashion Eye, and travelogues — Louis Vuitton Éditions has published around 100 titles, making it a pioneer in this field. Travel is also deeply connected to art de vivre (a rich lifestyle), and during the festival, Louis Vuitton will open a pop-up bookstore at the wine shop Le Buste et l'Oreille in the heart of Arles, hosting talks and signing events attended by authors and photographers.
For more than 20 years, the Louis Vuitton City Guide has traveled to major cities around the world, capturing trends and observing the changes that shape each city. It has introduced the fashion, design, contemporary art, gastronomy, and culture of more than 40 cities, including Paris, New York, London, and Tokyo, each through its own unique perspective. Writers and guest contributors from every field introduce exceptional hotels, carefully selected restaurants, distinctive fashion addresses, and iconic historic landmarks, each based on their own sensibility.
City Guide: Arles
Guest contributor: Armand Arnal
Photography: Flore-Aël Surun (Tendance Floue), Guillaume Blot
Text: Christophe Cachera, Clara Le Fort
270 pages / Price: ¥3,190 (tax included)
ISBN (English edition): 978-2-36983-529-5
ISBN (French edition): 978-2-36983-528-8
*The French and English editions are not sold in Japan.
*The app edition is available as a free download from the App Store until Sunday, October 4, 2026.
To coincide with Rencontres d'Arles, running until Sunday, October 4, Louis Vuitton is also adding two new titles to its Fashion Eye collection: Ibiza by Lachlan Bailey and Bucharest by Paul Kooiker. While Lachlan Bailey captures the timeless hedonism of Ibiza, affectionately nicknamed the "White Isle," Paul Kooiker renders Bucharest — also known as the "Paris of the Balkans" — in meticulous detail, and the photographs of each city are alive with sensuality and precision.
Fashion Eye Ibiza
Lachlan Bailey, who has repeatedly returned to Ibiza in the off-season since spending time there in his younger days to escape the everyday world, now captures the island with a fresh perspective. The wind of freedom that has blown through this island since the hippie era gently breathes through each of his timeless images, many of them shot at dusk. What emerges are supple, sun-tanned bodies quietly resting or moving as they surrender to the swell of the waves and the pulse of the clubs. Ibiza, part of the Balearic Islands, has two faces, and Bailey captures both without holding back — stillness and clamor, bougainvillea and salt flats, farms and fishermen's huts, and even Es Vedrà and the striking silhouette of painter Antonio Villanueva, all captured in his frame without distinction. The texture in his photographs expresses the untamed spirit and timeless character of this bohemian hideaway.
Lachlan Bailey
Born in Melbourne in 1974, Lachlan Bailey is now based between New York and Lisbon. After studying at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), he began his career as a photographer in London before relocating to New York in 2007. With roots in Australia, he has a particular affinity for warm light and island landscapes. He has a keen sensibility for the beauty of the body and the texture of skin, capturing them within meticulously composed frames that feel entirely natural. Influenced by photographers Bill Henson and Lee Friedlander, as well as cinematographer Sven Nykvist, he favors series that tell a story. In 2020, in collaboration with Erik Torstensson, co-founder of the fashion brand FRAME, he published the visual book Natasja in Corales (FRAME, 2020). He contributes regularly to Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and WSJ Magazine, and has also shot numerous celebrity portraits and advertising campaigns for brands including Chanel, Calvin Klein, and Jil Sander.
Fashion Eye Bucharest
Paul Kooiker was initially drawn to the Ceaușescu Palace, but he soon shifted his focus, turning his iPhone toward the whole of Bucharest and the details of everyday life. He captures the Romanian capital as if it were a blank canvas, weaving together portraits of Soviet-era apartment blocks with portraits of the young creative generation, gradually revealing another, encyclopedia-like image of the city. Their faces, captured in tight framing and color, bring a human touch to a visual record otherwise told in monochrome, further heightening its appeal. Along the way, pigeons and cats occasionally appear on streets lined with endlessly uneven facades. These 300 fragments carry a sense of the "unfinished," depicting the "multi-layered" character of a city caught between its former glory and an uncertain future.
Paul Kooiker
Born in Rotterdam in 1964, Paul Kooiker is now based in Amsterdam. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, he has been teaching at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam since the mid-1990s while continuing his own personal projects. Nurtured by Surrealism and conceptual art, his style is dreamlike yet critical, moving between perception and emotion. His curiosity has led him to explore the possibilities of a wide range of expressive techniques, from monochrome, sepia, and Polaroid photography to, more recently, images captured on iPhone. He has published as many as 13 photobooks to date, including Room Service (2008), Heaven (2012), and Eggs and Rarities (2018). His talent has been highly acclaimed, earning him the Prix de Rome in 1996 and the A. Roland Holst Prize in 2009. He has also drawn attention for fashion series created for the luxury sector.
Fashion Eye Ibiza: 112 pages
Fashion Eye Bucharest: 112 pages
Price: ¥6,820 (tax included)
ISBN (Fashion Eye Ibiza): 978-2-36983-527-1
ISBN (Fashion Eye Bucharest): 978-2-36983-503-5
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PHOTO CREDIT: Louis Vuitton Malletier
