Excerpt: LOUIS VUITTON. SPRING 2023 - PARIS FASHION WEEK

"With all the doom and gloom in the world, you have to admire Nicolas Ghesquière's fixation with 1950's and early 1960's retrofuturism of a time that was fueled with hope and stability via the beginning of the nuclear age.  It was to offer, under the family values template, a utopia of advancements in technology and urban living.   For its historical worth, the 50's was an era of what appeared to be social and economic calm, even though it was the beginning of the Cold War (part 1), its allure continues to resonate today.  

Ghesquière's other idée fixe is costume design, to which there have been a many showings for Louis Vuitton to which the French fashion designer has shown his adeptness in representing cinema and set design.  Not unlike Demna Gvasalia's Spring 2023 collection for Balenciaga, which represented a broken muddy landscape of beaten down looking models, walking through their war-torn apocalypse.  Ghesquière's expansive movie-esque set designed by contemporary artist Philippe Parreno mirrors Ghesquière dichotomy to Gvasalia's doom, with Parreno's large symmetrical tent like structure constructed within the grounds of the Cour carrée du Louvre in Paris..."

Full review: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/10/louis-vuitton-spring-2023-paris-fashion.html 

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(A.Glass 2022)