Read this Audio Case against its lineage and the design choices line up exactly: the boxy hard-case silhouette descended from Vuitton's nineteenth-century specialty-trunk vocabulary. Worked in Monogram canvas - the printed cotton-coated canvas Vuitton has produced since 1896, the finish is part of the piece's argument for itself. With a 8 by 8 by 2.5 inch format, the piece carries with compact confidence rather than scale for scale's sake. Early versions of the line are tracked closely by collectors, and reissues of this calibre tend to be quietly absorbed by the same audience. These silhouettes have a way of remaining the most worn pieces in a wardrobe a decade after acquisition. Presented by Maison de Beaubigonne to a collector audience that already knows what to do with it.

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