Louis Vuitton City Guide Collection

Featuring 43 Destinations in Both Print and Digital Formats

The Louis Vuitton City Guide has become an indispensable companion for discerning travellers. This spring, the House unveils updated editions for Bangkok, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, Rome and Tokyo, each enhanced with exclusive, previously unpublished content.

Since 1998, Louis Vuitton has instilled its nomadic nature into its City Guide Collection series to propose fresh and personal perspectives on each destination. Each city is revealed by independent authors and special guest contributors with wide and varied backgrounds.

This year, chef Chalee Kader takes us on a tour of Bangkok; Matthew Yokobosky, Senior Curator of Fashion and Material Culture at the Brooklyn Museum, guides us through the streets of New York, whilst the virtuoso artist Eva Jospin shares her vision of Paris.

A true barometer of taste and singular arbiter of style, each guide is tailored with the curious wanderer, the discerning business traveller and the cultivated local in mind.

Discover enchanting palaces and hotels, fine dining and lively local eateries, vibrant markets and refined delicatessens, antique dealers and contemporary design galleries. Explore boutiques, museums and independent bookshops, along with secret gardens, and both iconic and more discreet landmarks.

New Enriched Editions That Expand the Travel Experience

For the first time, this new edition of the City Guide includes an illustrated section dedicated to the city’s history and milestones, as well as a feature highlighting prominent locals from all walks of life who have shaped their city.

This same subjective vision also inspires the City Guide in its digital incarnation. The Louis Vuitton City Guide app, available for iPhone or iPad, includes all the cities in the series, with thousands of addresses updated on a regular basis.

Special guest contributors, secret places, walking tours, cultural events, tips from savvy journalists, photographic portfolios – the spirit of the Louis Vuitton City Guide is constantly evolving, taking its unique approach in new directions.

It percolates through Apple TV, which offers a full range of related video programming, but also Louis Vuitton’s Tambour Horizon smartwatch, giving on-the-wrist access to the app’s “Near Me” and “24H” features.

The Louis Vuitton City Guide intensifies the travel experience, perfecting its art.

An Original View on Cities Worldwide, With More Than 14,000 Addresses

Special Guest

Each guide has a special guest contributor, a celebrity who offers his or her personal vision of the city, sharing travel memories and favourite addresses.

The City and Its History

The guide introduces a new chapter devoted entirely to the history of each city. Presented as a chronological narrative by French illustrator Laurent Cilluffo, it traces the city’s evolution through some 40 key dates, alongside a series of historical anecdotes that have helped define its character.

The City and Its Neighbourhoods

The history, architectural style and ambience of the city’s main neighbourhoods and their residents.

Essentials

Practical information on getting around, notable events, historic monuments and other must-sees, and how to live like a local, along with suggested books to read, movies to see, songs to listen to before or after your trip, and Instagram accounts to follow.

24 Hours in the City

Twelve unbeatable experiences that capture the best of the city through twelve special addresses, beginning with breakfast at sunrise and staying out till dawn.

People Power

Inspired by the Louis Vuitton City Guide special editions (for Arles, Reims, Basel and Osaka), this new Louis Vuitton City Guide publication includes a 32-page, full-colour section dedicated to the city’s most notable residents.

It is presented as a portfolio of 10 individuals, photographed by local artists, spanning various fields (including hospitality, food, culture, fashion and sport), with a portrait tracing each person’s journey and what makes them unique.

City Guide Categories

Rooms in View

Starred hotels to offbeat hideouts: where to sleep in the city.

Creative Kitchens

Gourmet standouts to neighbourhood gems: where to dine in the city.

Cafés and Counter Culture

Power breakfasts to inventive bites: where to refuel in the city.

Good Things

Gourmet delis to farmers markets: the taste of the city.

Nightlife

Mixology lounges to live entertainment: winding down in the city.

Sports

Football stadiums to yoga retreats: physical wellbeing in the city.

A Sense of Style

High fashion to emerging designers: shopping in the city.

Interior Cachet

Contemporary design galleries to flea markets: living in the city.

Arts and Culture

Major museums to independent booksellers: inspiration in the city.

Scenic Route

Each guide includes a set of walking tours to take a breather and explore the city on foot between visits to the recommended spots, away from the hustle-bustle and crowds.

City Guide

Independent Authors, All Keen Observers

Expert wordsmiths and seasoned communicators are behind every City Guide.

To capture the heart and spirit of each city, Louis Vuitton reaches out to journalists, writers and major figures in the world of arts and letters, many of whom divide their time between two cities and whose work often appears in the most prestigious newspapers and magazines.

Their contributions, joined with those of artists, business people, creatives, all backed by the authority and experience of Louis Vuitton, make the City Guide a publication like no other — original, offbeat and invaluable.

Bursting with curiosity, cosmopolitan, irreverent, playful and literary, each guide reflects the personalities of its authors.

All of them are astute observers of life and wear their vast cultural knowledge with ease and elegance. They have the rare gift of being able to appreciate both the frivolous and the essential, seeking out what is truly magnificent in the many little pleasures each city has to offer.

A Special Guest’s Personal View of Each City

Each edition of the Louis Vuitton City Guide includes the personal perspective of a guest on his or her city.

Either a celebrity or an in-the-know local, the special guest takes the reader by the hand, sharing tips and insights along the way, even opening his or her personal address book to divulge several preferred haunts, all part of an insider’s first-person introduction to the destination.

This year, more new voices offer an entertaining and unexpected look at the cities they love, including DJ and electronic music producer Daniel Avery in London, leading figure from the art world and co-founder of Commission, Dejha Carrington in Miami, chef Chalee Kader in Bangkok.

Photographers Offer a Fresh Perspective on Each City

For its City Guide series, Louis Vuitton has always placed special emphasis on the finely crafted contributions of its authors, supporting them in their quest to find just the right words and an appropriately elegant style to reveal the soul of each city.

Without departing in any way from this philosophy, the aim in introducing photographic contributions is to offer readers another perspective, not merely to illustrate the text.

This mission has been entrusted to Paris-based photography collective Tendance Floue, contributing a new series of photographs for this year’s editions of the City Guide.

One destination, one perspective: each photographer sets out to discover “their” city. This new portfolio of local portraits introduces fresh and exclusive visual signatures, steeped in the city’s culture.

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