The original

"The naked alphabet"

"The naked alphabet" by Dutch artists Anthon and Anna Beeke

- published by De JONG & Co. printers in their experimental ‘Kwadraat’ series in 1970
- photographed by Geert Kooiman
- “His capitals, built entirely out of carefully choreographed ensembles of nude girls (no less than twelve for the ‘M’ and the ‘W’), are a tongue-in-cheek reaction to Wim Crouwel’s experimental ‘new alphabet’, published in the same series some years earlier (1967)” writes Jelle Bouwhuis in Stedelijk Museum Bulletin,(December 2003, p. 30-34).

"New Alphabet" by Wim Crowel in 1967

The re-mix

In 2005, Vanessa Beecroft displayed a piece of "VBLV" and "Escape Louis Vuitton" series with multiple naked women's bodies in the Louis Vuitton store on the Champs Elysées in Paris. The letters composed of naked women were used in the "VBLV" book published by EDIZIONI CHARTA in Italy in September 2007.

I found another article in wwd.com which reports about louis vuitton apologizing for this incident.

Click here to read more.

Paris. Espace Louis Vuitton. VANESSA BEECROFT: VBLV. Artist interview by Riccardo Lisi. Milan, Charta, 2007.

A little exerpt of another interesting article I found:
"(...)Alphabets have always been representative of eras and places. The intrinsic richness of each letter and its possible modulations are a culture's freely expressed instruments and materials. Serif or sans serif, typefaces have often sought a kind of anthropomorphism, especially in the late gothic and baroque periods, until the modern figurative alphabets by Ursula Huber-Bavier in 1961 and Armin Haab in 1967, which were so gracefully drawn, so graphically absolute and Swiss as to be chosen by Bruno Munari for a greeting card.
The question remains: will this new self-produced dressed alphabet be serif or sans serif? The very feminine composition—the gentleness with which the letters are formed—suggests that the font will certainly be serif, and perhaps, today, free of copyright.(...)"

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