From the wealth of Hennessy XO's 150-year legacy and the artistic vision of designer Kim Jones comes an exclusive collaboration that includes the bottle Hennessy XO Limited Edition by Kim Jonesa Masterpiece Hennessy XO ass and HNY Low sneakers Exclusively designed by the artist.
Exclusively for Hennessy XO, Kim Jones pays tribute to the making of the cognac and haute couture, as well as craftsmanship and savoir-faire. Follow in the footsteps of a lineage of great masters who have helped cement Hennessy XO's cultural resonance over the years, including Frank Gehry, Cai Guo-Qiang and Ridley Scott.
This first element of the collaboration is the “prêt-à-porter” version. Hennessy XO Limited Edition. The Hennessy XO bottle is wrapped in a second skin of aluminium, the structure of which shows the characteristic shape of the bottle, while evoking a haute couture silhouette.
El Hennessy XO Masterpiece is inspired by the making of Hennessy XO, an art perfected by eight generations of Master Blenders. A specially designed titanium casing completely encapsulates the bottle like an architectural second skin. Its twisted folds evoke both the couture technique of draping and the way in which, in the early XNUMXth century, Hennessy bottles were carefully wrapped by hand in tissue paper to protect their fragile parchment labels. Its base, an undulating oak plateau, evokes the barrels used to age the spirits that would be blended to create Hennessy XO.
While the bottle is completely concealed, the cognac can be extracted using the Kim Jones-designed spout, an elegant and playful ritual for pouring a glass. As a final touch, the decanter itself has been bathed in gradient colours, an effect inspired by the shades of the different eaux-de-vie selected by the Master Blender to compose Hennessy XO.
Only 200 examples of the statuesque Hennessy XO Masterpiece have been produced. The decanter demonstrates how humanity and technology can work together to create something unique, "like a bespoke couture piece for a bottle," says the designer.
