Reblog: LOUIS VUITTON. RESORT 2023

 

"Nicolas Ghesquière held his Resort 2023 collection at the Salk Institute in San Diego, California, which if one knows their architectural history, encapsulates that 1950's and 1960's Béton brut architecture or in a more direct term, Brutalism.  Designed  by the late architect Louis I. Kahn who passed away under tragic circumstances in 1974.  Kahn, although not a prolific architect, designed and created over his tenure what could be considered to be the epitome of brutalist structure.  His monolithic buildings resonated a humanistic and spiritual connection to our place within nature, which at the end of the day is a structural defiance, if we are to survive nature's ferocity.  To be that beacon in the dark even against our own human nature and levity.  The building was dedicated to American Virologist Jonas Salk, who discovered the vaccine for polio, saving millions of children from this viral scourge.  In the last years of his life he dedicated himself to find a cure for the AIDS virus.

I have reviewed Ghesquière's previous Louis Vuitton shows..."

Full review:  https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/05/louis-vuitton-resort-2022.html