Riot Games is partnering with the historic French trend home Louis Vuitton to create each real-world and in-game designs for League of Legends.
Ahead of League’s 2019 World Championship, Louis Vuitton shall be collaborating with Riot to develop a “one-of-a-kind Trophy Travel Case” for the Summoner’s Cup awarded to the winner of the match, according to a blog post from the developer. This is just like the circumstances designed for the World Cup and the French Open. But with one vital distinction: This is the primary to be designed for an eSport.
Riot says the case “will feature both traditional Louis Vuitton savoir-faire, along with cutting-edge, high-tech elements inspired by the League of Legends universe.”
Riot additionally confirms the style home is at the moment creating “unique champion skins” for the game, alongside a digital capsule assortment designed by Louis Vuitton’s inventive director of ladies’s collections Nicholas Ghesquiere. This will get its personal announcement “soon.”
This isn’t the primary time Louis Vuitton has dipped its fashionably bejewelled toes into the gaming pool. Earlier this month, the European trend model confirmed off its 2020 cruise assortment towards a soundtrack of Nobuo Uematsu’s “Liberi Fatali” theme from Final Fantasy VIII.
The firm had beforehand chosen Final Fantasy 13’s Lightning because the face of Louis Vuitton again in 2016, as a part of a viral marketing campaign that included pictures of Lightning posing with a designer purse.
This 12 months’s League of Legends World Championships shall be held from October 2 by to November 10 in Berlin, Madrid, and Paris.
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