Louis Vuitton has announced actress Thandie Newton as the latest star to be featured in its ‘Double Exposure’ series. Photographed by Tom Craig, the below video shows Newton wearing a selection of looks from the Louis Vuitton autumn/winter 2011 collection and surrounded by some of her most personal possessions, including a painting from her childhood, an object created by her daughter and her passport. The images were taken using a 19th century photographic process in which the sitter must pose for 12 seconds and create a “counterbalance to today’s disposable media culture”.
“Amidst the frenetic hustle and bustle of the modern consumer landscape one of the key creative objectives for Louis Vuitton was to slow things down, and take a moment to capture the true essence of the sitter, in order to create something that was unique, exclusive and timeless,” the luxury label said in a release.
“It really takes you into the heart and history of photography itself,” Newton says in the film that chronicles the process, “and to parallel that, we’re getting into the heart and history of me.”
The full Double Exposure film will debut on Louis Vuitton’s Facebook page September 8.
