Jaden Smith showed off one of Louis Vuitton’s latest mini trunks at an LVMH Prize cocktail party in Paris.
The annual award helps up-and-coming fashion designers get their footing in the industry.
For the event, Smith rocked a slate gray shirt jacket with a flared hemline and button closures, paired with sheer pleated pants and leather boots. A pair of cat-eye frames topped off the look.
His bag? Straight from Vuitton’s Spring 2025 womenswear collection, designed by creative director Nicolas Ghesquière. The Petite Malle—a mini take on the brand’s iconic trunks—features a clever trompe-l’oeil design that makes it look like three trunks stacked into one.
Ghesquière first introduced the Petite Malle back in his Fall 2014 collection, and the version Smith carried is a direct nod to that original design, featuring small “X” details.
Louis Vuitton has been all about trunks since its founding in 1854. The brand didn’t start making handbags until the 1910s.
The OG Louis Vuitton himself switched up the trunk game in 1858 with a flat-topped design—way more practical than the old rounded ones since they could actually be stacked. He also invented the “unpickable” tumbler lock, which he and his son, Georges, refined into a single-lock system with two spring buckles. That design is still used in Vuitton trunks today.
As for the LVMH Prize? Twenty designers are in the running for a €400,000 grand prize and mentorship from LVMH in everything from sustainability to marketing, manufacturing, and brand finance.
