Louis Vuitton fall 2010 campaign preview: Karen Elson, Photo: Steven Meisel, Stylist: Karl Templer

Steven Meisel photographed Karen Elson for the fall 2010 Louis Vuitton campaign on April 15, 2010 with stylist Karl Templer.

Louis Vuitton Fall 2010 Campaign
Model: Karen Elson
Photographer: Steven Meisel
Stylist: Karl Templer
Hair: Guido Palau
Makeup: Pat McGrath

From WWD:
THREE’S COMPANY: Typically, Marc Jacobs gives his collections for Louis Vuitton a different spin in advertising versus the runway. For the forthcoming fall campaign, slated to break in a wide range of August titles, Christy Turlington, Karen Elson and Natalia Vodianova are shown preening in front of old-fashioned makeup mirrors backstage, as if they were ready to take a stroll around the fountain of the Louvre’s Cour Carré, the setting for Vuitton’s show during Paris Fashion Week in March. Ditto for the multigenerational casting — one model in her 20s, one her 30s, one her 40s — adding up to one of the most sophisticated Vuitton fashion campaigns to date, according to Antoine Arnault, Vuitton’s director of communications.

“The atmosphere was very Fifties, very elegant,” he related. This is the fourth Vuitton campaign shot by Steven Meisel, who constructed the period set in a New York studio.