Kindly Head To Louis Vuitton At Terminal 2
The French luxury fashion house opens a new store and café with Cyril Lignac at Heathrow Airport to add pleasure to daily travel gone lethargic.
The French luxury fashion house opens a new store and café with Cyril Lignac at Heathrow Airport to add pleasure to daily travel gone lethargic.
The introduction of a new Louis Vuitton store and café at Heathrow Airport levels up the aesthetic standard at Terminal 2 a bit.
Louis Vuitton makes a quiet mission to elegantly emphasise core principles that define a travel lifestyle of luxurious, rarefied air. Over four years, the maison has worked to heighten experiences in the hospitality sector — via restaurants, cafés and chocolate shops — that express limitless values of savoir-faire in any avenue. It becomes London’s Heathrow moment in time then, to soar with innovation from Vuitton and architecture from Marc Fornes, streamlining ideas of waiting, of transitions into aerodynamic, elegant moments.
Heathrow domestic to international departures and arrivals reflect concepts from Louis Vuitton womens’ transitory-minded creative director Nicolas Ghesquière. Naturally the new store features selections primarily from his women’s universe with an offering of men’s leather goods and accessories. These objects of extreme craft are a gateway into the future, Louis Vuitton’s café.
Existing inside the shop, the café has a curvilinear feel that softens travel anxieties to embrace the playful side of travel’s waiting paralysis. Fornes recalls Pierre Bernard’s retro futurism in his curvaceous, capacious rendering of tabletop seating and counter service. Collaborations extend to the menu as Chef Cyril Lignac introduces his narrative fusion of food with Louis Vuitton’s seismic reevaluation of environments in ephemeral motion.
Louis Vuitton store and Le Café Cyril Lignac at Heathrow, Terminal 2 is open Monday through Sunday, 5:30am to 10pm