Arizona Muse only travels in style and the best way to fly is in a hot air balloon with your Louis Vuitton in tow.
Starring in Louis Vuitton’s first ever TV ad, Miss Muse is the French femme speeding darkly and mysteriously through a similarly atmospheric Louvre, encountering the Italian masters before staring down the Mona Lisa, and floating up, up and away into the horizon in a red and white striped hot air balloon. Created by Dutch photography and director duo, Inez and Vinoodh, the two minute advert is a tribute to Louis Vuitton’s legacy starting as Empress Eugénie’s official packer and ending up as the finest artist of travel accessories to date. We enter a world of Parisian panache and chat to the stunning Arizona about real life.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given? Be kind. You can be whatever you like but always be kind.
What’s the worst piece of advice you’ve ever been given? To get a tattoo of someone’s name. Thank goodness I did NOT follow this advice!
If you could rewind time, what advice would you give your younger self? Friendship is the most important aspect of life. Cultivate friends all over the world and treat them well and all will be happy!
Who is the wisest person you have ever met and why? I’ve been lucky to know so many wise people. Everyone has wisdom in them and it’s a special moment when it comes out. Diane von Furstenberg is one who’s literally oozing with wisdom!
What are your three rules to live by? Have fun, be considerate, and care about absolutely everything.
What advice would you give someone wishing to follow in your footsteps? In my footsteps, as a model, I’d say to create as many routines in your life as possible, because otherwise things will get crazy.
Watch Kayt Jones and Jay Rodan’s Arizona film for i-D’s The Lights, Camera, Action Issue here.
Text: Felicity Kinsella
Photography and Film: Inez and Vinoodh
Arizona cover: Kayt Jones
