What aspects of Louis Vuitton’s own heritage did you look to when creating this series of bags?

What’s wonderful about working with Louis Vuitton are their resources. They’re the finest resources in the world. Often if I start a project with a new group of people, I expect that when samples come at the very beginning I’m going to have to push them harder in this direction or that direction. But with Louis Vuitton, the first samples come through and it’s like, ‘Wow! I never saw that before. That’s a better sample than anything I’ve seen before.’ They’re using the best resources in the world. And they’re