There’s more to Los Angeles than meets the eye. 

A playground of notorious A-listers and Hollywood wannabes, the City of Angels has become an ideal set-up for many a reality show. But that’s not how Louis Vuitton sees it. The reverent French fashion house uses gender as a lens to interpret the city’s identity.

With text and film by Jean-Claude Thibaut, Louis Vuitton offers a profound depiction of Los Angeles’ manly characteristics by means of a short film that features seven different budding actors. Titled When Los Angeles is a Man, the film comes moving with a narration that divulges one man’s musing about this dynamic city. —ROLLIE POLLIE OLLIE