Louis Vuitton is always on the verge of bringing new innovative ideas to the luxury goods market, starting on June 16th for $17 you can experience “it’s most affordable travel-themed product yet”. According to WWD, “the French luxury giant has created MP3 audio guides for three Chinese cities, with one-hour walking tours narrated by famous actresses: Gong Li for Beijing, Joan Chen for Shanghai and Shu Qi for Hong Kong”. The audio guides were produced in collaboration with Soundwalk and “launched in tandem with the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer”. You will be able to download the audio guides at louisvuitton.com and louisvuittonsoundwalk.com. Quite interesting, I’m eager to “experience the tour”…
I feel that the concept of travelling with sound is interesting. I also think that Shu Qi is an attractive and interesting actress, but I feel personally she should represent Taiwan instead of Hong Kong. First unlike the two other actresses, they are fluent in their mother tongue and have a good standard of English to do the English version. I found Shu Qi has a strong mandarin accent for her Cantonese, even as a native, sometimes, I need to replay to listen again what she said. For the English version, I found it really hard to catch what she is saying at all. I think Maggie Cheung could be a suitable choice for the actress for Hong Kong.