Louis Vuitton Unveils La Valise Bruno Aveillan at LV Dream During Paris Photo

In conjunction with Paris Photo, Louis Vuitton presents La Valise Bruno Aveillan, an immersive exhibition at LV Dream in Paris beginning November 13, 2026 — a final journey to conclude the House’s year-long celebration of the 130th anniversary of the Monogram. At the fair, the House is also presenting its Éditions at the Grand Palais.

Photo Credit: Bruno Aveillan, Courtesy of Louis Vuitton

The exhibition follows photographer and filmmaker Bruno Aveillan and his Louis Vuitton Alzer 75, a gift he has carried to more than one hundred destinations over thirteen years. The Suitcase, co-published by Flammarion and Noir, parallels the show. A single suitcase, carried that long, is a quieter way to close a monogram anniversary — and a more personal one.

“In a sense, this series is also indirectly a self-portrait,” Aveillan said. “The suitcase is present wherever I go; it is my traveling companion. In a way, it encapsulates my relationship with travel, cinema, photography, memory, and the beauty of places.” Over time, he added, the work becomes “a sort of diary, a travel journal without explanatory dates, without an imposed chronology, without a linear narrative.”

The rooms set the artist beside his suitcase, then place both in the House’s longer history of travel. One gallery presents Albert Kahn’s early-twentieth-century photographer’s trunk — red Vuittonite canvas, black metal trim, rope handles and his signature trio of small white crosses — made for the operators of Les Archives de la Planète, and later an inspiration for the Petite Malle by Nicolas Ghesquière, Artistic Director of Women’s Collections.

Photo Credit: Ophélie Maurus, Courtesy of Louis Vuitton

“Photographer Bruno Aveillan is a modern-day explorer in the tradition of the great discoverers and photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries – daring souls such as Albert Kahn, for whom Louis Vuitton created air- and watertight travel trunks sheathed in red canvas,” said Aurélie Samuel, exhibition co-curator. “Mr Aveillan’s work goes far beyond simply documenting adventures on the physical plane: his art seeks to capture the journeys of mind and heart by way of lyrical landscapes and poetic images that encourage self-discovery and the desire to look within.”

A later room traces the Alzer, which appeared in the late 1950s in sizes from 55 to 80 centimeters. Displays set out its construction and finishes, with Aveillan’s 2012 series Savoir et Faire Louis Vuitton, commissioned at the Asnières-sur-Seine workshops. Audrey Hepburn, André Leon Talley and Lauren Bacall all swore by the model.

The photographs then fill the walls and three central cubes, in seven themes that follow the chapters of The Suitcase. The closing film, In the Footsteps of Bruno Aveillan, runs 5 minutes and 40 seconds on three screens and was directed by Mathieu Spadaro, who traveled with the artist for several years. A pop-up bookstore offers Les Éditions Louis Vuitton titles, including The Suitcase, with purchases in the Gift Store on the first floor.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Louis Vuitton

At Paris Photo, November 12 to 15, 2026, at the Grand Palais, Louis Vuitton Éditions occupies booth P14. The presentation marks Fashion Eye’s tenth anniversary with two new releases: George Hoyningen-Huene’s 1937 images of Bangkok, shown from the archive for the first time, and Liu Shuwei’s views of Shanghai. Fair hours are 1 p.m. to 8 p.m., and until 7 p.m. on Sunday.

Photo Credit: Ophélie Maurus, Courtesy of Louis Vuitton

The visit continues at Le Café Maxime Frédéric at Louis Vuitton, which overlooks the Seine from Rue du Pont-Neuf, with a new shared lunch menu, The Odyssey. Guests choose among Terre, Marine or Végétale, drawn from the Louis Vuitton Culinary Community, and finish with a Maxime Frédéric dessert, or a collection of six signature mini-desserts.

La Valise Bruno Aveillan is at LV Dream, 26 Quai de la Mégisserie, 1st arrondissement, Paris, from November 13, 2026, Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., with free admission by reservation. Paris Photo is at the Grand Palais, Avenue Winston-Churchill, 75008 Paris, November 12–15, 2026.

For more of Haute Living’s Louis Vuitton coverage, see the House’s Artycapucines retrospective at Art Basel Paris.