Visionaire Magazine is offering up a special packaging for their 50th issue: a Goyard trunk loaded to the gills with those first 50 Visionaire issues OR a Goyard trunk loaded to the gills with 10 sets of those 50 issues! Price? Massive! 50k$US or 150k$US depending if you want read copies or want to hoard copies. WSJ’s Eva Ramirez offers some thoughts on the pricepoints. "The lofty price tag for a collection of "magazines" is the result of multiple factors, including Visionaire’s increasing collectability, as well as trends in the luxury goods market, which continues to hit ever-higher price points… Last December, the entire run, from 1–53, was purchased anonymously for $65,000."

Clearly Visionaire Magazine and Goyard up the ante for all future collaborations to come. This is one hell of a set.

"Visionaire presents issue 54 SPORT, our first wearable publication. Using the most advanced printing technologies, Visionaire produces full-coverage, full-color, photographically-printed Lacoste polo shirts featuring artwork by photographers Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin with M/M (Paris), Phil Poynter; artists Thomas Demand, Thomas Ruff, T.J. Wilcox; designer Karl Lagerfeld; filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar; musicians David Byrne, Michael Stipe; and painter Richard Phillips. This issue is a collaboration with Lacoste, currently celebrating its 75th anniversary. SPORT is produced as four different sets, each containing three printed Lacoste polo shirts embedded within its pages: one large, one medium, and one small, as well as a book featuring all twelve images."

Note that subscribers receive only one of the set but have the opportunity to buy them all.

See all the polos after the jump.

“If you close your eyes, what sense takes over? Do you consume the world in sound bites? Are you moved by the art of noise? Issue 53 of Visionaire–produced this time around in collaboration with the British car manufacturer, MINI–is dedicated to the theme of Sound. Packaged inside a specially produced domed case, it consists of five 12-inch vinyl records, imprinted with images (picture discs), that together contain more than 100 minutes of sound content–from audio experiments to unreleased songs, samples and spoken word pieces. Also included is a MINI Clubman “Vinyl Killer” record player: a battery-operated toy car, containing speakers and a needle. As the little car moves along a record’s groove, it plays each track, acting as a fully portable record player and sound system.” (via Amazon)

Visionaire 53 Sound is also packed with 2 CDs full of music from a slew of acts. Available now via Amazon.

We are big fans of Visionaire magazine. Their latest issue 52, titled “Private”, was for the second time a collaboration with Louis Vuitton. The magazine shows photographs by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, also it is guest edited by non-other than Marc Jacobs.

Private is a portfolio of intimate photographs of stars, including Drew Barrymore, Lindsay Lohan, Scarlett Johansson, Selma Blair, Jennifer Lopez and many others. It is a limited edition of numbered 2′500 pieces, housed in an exclusive gold Louis Vuitton monogram case, designed by Marc Jacobs.

Not only is Private now available for purchase, the Visionaire Gallery on Mercer Street in Soho, also shows photos that appear in the book at the moment. Both definitely worth checking out!