Excerpt: LOUIS VUITTON. PRE-FALL 2023 - SEOUL.

"Nicolas Ghesquière has returned back to his beloved 1950's esque futurist stylizations, of that utopia that-never-happened, in earnest.  Which is an astounding return to form since his Ready-to-Wear Fall 2022 and 2023 showings, that as noted with my Louis Vuitton Fall 2023 review, was teetering on the edge of the Avant-garde and more experimental and daren't I say, darker arrays that Ghesquière as a fashion designer has not been renowned for.  And as I have commented with Ghesquière's Louis Vuitton past presentations, of the retro futurism of technological grandeur that was the 1950's.  Which attempted to offer hope within its pragmatic template of nuclear energy, conservative family values and new a middle class.  Science fiction since the 1970's has toyed with this parallel timeline and the gleam of 50's technological prowess, as least aesthetically of the possibility that the era could have set forth a Utopian idealism.  Only to collapse in the 1960's and 1970's when the counter culture erupted and the baby boomers rejected their parents rigidity.    The echo of romanticism remains..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/05/louis-vuitton-pre-fall-2023-seoul.html

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(A.Glass 2023)