What does a wine tasting look like when Louis Vuitton designs it?
It comes in a trunk.
The Malle Vin, making its Canadian debut at Louis Vuitton’s Savoir-Faire presentation in Toronto, was designed specifically for wine tasting. It is beautiful, meticulously made and just extravagant enough to make you smile.
It also feels entirely at home here.
The Malle Vin makes its Canadian debut at Louis Vuitton’s Savoir-Faire Toronto, transforming the ritual of wine tasting into an exquisitely crafted travel trunk.
Louis Vuitton began with travel. The House was founded in Paris in 1854 by a young trunk-maker whose luggage was designed for a new era of getting from one place to another. More than 170 years later, those trunks remain an important part of Louis Vuitton, even as the name has expanded into fashion, jewellery, watches and collectible design.
For Savoir-Faire Toronto, many of those worlds have been brought together at the House’s Bloor Street location through October 4.
THE ART OF THE TRUNK
The Malle Vin isn’t the only trunk making its Canadian debut.
The Courrier Lozine 110 Monogram Asnières Bloom takes its pattern from a stained-glass window at the historic Louis Vuitton family home in Asnières-sur-Seine, outside Paris. It is a lovely connection between an object made for travel and the place where the House’s trunk-making tradition took shape.
A piece of Louis Vuitton history, reimagined: the Courrier Lozine 110 Monogram Asnières Bloom makes its Canadian debut at Savoir-Faire Toronto.
There is also the Lipstick Trunk, the Malle Horlogère and the Nano Set Mother of Pearl, which places four embellished Nano Capucines handbags within a Monogram trunk.
Do we need a trunk dedicated to wine, watches or lipstick?
Probably not.
Do we want to look at one?
Absolutely.
That tension is part of the fun. These are objects created around rituals and possessions we already understand, then taken somewhere far beyond the ordinary through materials, craftsmanship and imagination.
AND THEN THERE’S THE COCOON
Where design meets fantasy: Estúdio Campana’s one-of-a-kind Cocoon Couture Curupira is among the standout pieces at Louis Vuitton’s Savoir-Faire Toronto.
Among the Objets Nomades is something altogether different.
The Cocoon Couture Curupira, created by Brazilian design duo Estúdio Campana, is a one-of-a-kind version of the designers’ Cocoon chair, embroidered with enamelled stones and sequins.
Its inspiration is Curupira, the legendary protector of Brazil’s forests. Look at it as furniture and it seems fantastical. Look at it as sculpture and suddenly it makes perfect sense.
The dining table gets its own dose of imagination. Art of Dining Dolce Vita plays with the Louis Vuitton Monogram flower, while Animali Fantastici draws on the work of Italian artist Fortunato Depero.
Several of the Objets Nomades pieces presented in Toronto are available exclusively in Canada.
MADE TO BE KEPT
And then there is the jewellery.
The Galaxie Sautoir necklace pairs white gold with diamonds, while LV Color Emerald earrings and pieces from the Idylle Blossom collection bring another kind of craftsmanship into the room.
Put all of this together and Savoir-Faire becomes less about any single object than about how things are made.
Luxury is a word we use rather freely these days. Here, it becomes much more tangible: the weight of an object, the finish of a surface, an unexpected material, the precision of a clasp or the hours of work hidden in a detail most people may never notice.
There is also something appealing about seeing objects created with the expectation that they will be kept.
That may be the most interesting thing about Savoir-Faire. Yes, there are rare pieces and things most of us will never own. But there is also pleasure in simply looking closely at something that has been exceptionally well made.
Even if that something happens to be a Louis Vuitton trunk built for wine.
Louis Vuitton Savoir-Faire Toronto is on view at the House’s Bloor Street location from September 24 to October 4, 2026.
