Louis Vuitton and Singer have revealed two jointly developed Porsche 911s, marking the first co-branded product for both companies. The pair consists of a Porsche 911 Reimagined by Singer Classic coupe in a saffron and cobalt blue livery created for Louis Vuitton, and a Porsche 911 Reimagined by Singer Classic Turbo cabriolet conceived by Nicolas Ghesquière, Louis Vuitton’s artistic director of women’s collections, finished in Calcaire Lutétien white with precious wood trim. Both cars are built on Type 964 chassis with lightweight carbon fiber bodywork, six-speed manual transmissions, rear-wheel drive, and carbon ceramic brakes.
The coupe runs a 4.0-liter naturally aspirated air-cooled flat-six with a speed-activated rear wing, while the cabriolet uses a 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged flat-six with air-to-water intercooling, selectable drive modes, and a whale tail rear wing. Singer restored the Classic at its California facility and crafted the Turbo cabriolet at its facility in England.
The project began with a request for a dashboard clock and expanded from there. The resulting detachable mechanical timepiece, which converts into a desk clock, draws on the Tambour watch and was designed and produced by La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton in Switzerland. Once it was in the cockpit, Louis Vuitton redesigned the entire instrument display to match, reworking the speedometer, rev counter, and gauges around Tambour graphic codes including the hands, dial terminations, and index systems, finished in cobalt blue with orange lettering. That element alone took a year of work.
Inside the coupe, the cabin is upholstered in leather with a natural hue inspired by VVT leather, the material Louis Vuitton uses for handles, shoulder straps, and edging on its luggage. Door handle edges use the same edge-dyeing technique found on the brand’s bags, stitching runs in yellow thread, and diamond-patterned embossing on the seats, front boot trim, and rear engine compartment echoes the malletage motif from the inside of Louis Vuitton trunks. Seat ventilation eyelets are hand-finished with Monogram flower designs that repeat on the sun visor and headrests. Plastic interior fittings have been replaced throughout with hand-crafted metal components, predominantly rhodium-plated, with colors achieved through anodizing or electroplating and surfaces polished and satin-finished using watchmaking techniques. Fuel and oil caps carry the typography used on Louis Vuitton watch components.
Externally, the saffron shade connects to Bahama Yellow from Singer’s earliest commissions and to the trunks Louis Vuitton designed for Citroën in 1924, which already used cobalt blue interior reinforcements. The car wears cobalt blue demonstration tires, a rear engine air intake grille incorporating a geometric L and V motif, and a bespoke roof rack shaped to the body that can carry a trunk, a surfboard, or skis. The Louis Vuitton surfboard is handcrafted in Angers with Monogram marquetry in blond oak and walnut before receiving its resin coating and fins on the Atlantic coast, and the accompanying skis are made in the French Alps from wood, titanal, and steel.
Ghesquière’s cabriolet takes a nautical direction, pairing white bodywork with brown accents over an interior where leather meets wood in a reference to classic motorboats. The rear-opening luggage compartment reveals a teak-inspired wooden deck, crafted from varnished wood using the technique employed for runabout decks, with wood paneling also lining the rear engine compartment and the front boot, which houses a bespoke trunk of three cases that slot together. Even the bumpers incorporate wooden elements. The dashboard clock sits at the center of the console rather than behind the wheel, surrounded by golden gauges and a dial matched to the exterior paint, with a matching golden ignition key, and the gearshift trim below it evokes the Noé bag through a natural leather drawstring. Leather fastening straps with pin buckles secure the front and rear hoods.
Each car comes with a dedicated Louis Vuitton capsule collection. The coupe’s includes a leather racing jacket with Monogram flower eyelets, denim, LV Rally or LV Remix Derby footwear, driving gloves, a carbon and glass fiber jet helmet, key cases, a document pochette, a helmet bag, and luggage including the Bisten and Keepall plus a pair of bags shaped to sit in the car’s nose. The cabriolet’s capsule centers on a 40 mm Tambour Automatic in ceramic and yellow gold, housed alongside the dashboard timepiece in a pair of Coffret Tresor cases, joined by a made-to-measure parachute silk suit, braided leather driving gloves, LV Sneakerina footwear, gold and acetate sunglasses, a carbon and glass fiber helmet, a garment bag, and luggage including the Alma, Express, Noé, Cruiser, Petite Malle, and a Keepall 45 with a removable cover.
