Kendall Jenner Is Obsessed With Limited-Edition Louis Vuitton Bags

Limited-edition Louis Vuitton bags created in collaboration with artists hold serious celebrity caché. Rihanna has a particular predilection for vanity trunks given makeovers by Takashi Murakami and Frank Gehry, and now Kendall Jenner is showing off her cultural credentials via arm candy from the house, too.

The model has been pictured carrying a shoulder bag from Stephen Sprouse’s tie-up with Louis Vuitton in New York this week. The 2001 collaboration was born out of former creative director Marc Jacobs’s desire to deface the brand’s iconic monogram, and was subsequently revived in 2008 in homage to the US artist, who died in 2004. Known for his graffiti prints and fluoro fashion, Sprouse injected the storied French maison with a dose of anarchy that chimed with Jacobs’s own vision.

Two decades on, Kendall Jenner might, at first read, seem like an unlikely champion of Sprouse’s iconic scrawl. But the reality TV star is the owner of a burgeoning vintage bag collection that also includes Hermès Birkins and Kellys, such as the buttercup-yellow one she toted this week. The rest of the Kardashian-Jenner clan has a plethora of Louis Vuitton Speedies and Néos between them (remember when Kim brought back Nano Speedy bags for all the kids from Japan?), but Kendall’s pochette has kudos that can rival that of Rihanna, the ultimate influencer.