Excerpt: LOUIS VUITTON. RESORT 2023

 

"...I have reviewed Ghesquière's previous Louis Vuitton shows and noted his fascination with the dawn of the Nuclear Age that was the 1950's, in all of its hope, particularly after the ravages of Word War Two, it seemed briefly that technology would set us free.  This is Ghesquière's Utopian aesthetic, which offered, at least from a romantic perspective, the possibility that we may envision human triumph over what has recently occurred, post the global pandemic.  But, the obliquity of human ignorance before and after this viral outbreak with its obsession with economics that unfortunately has taken precedence over the sociological.  We were lead by a maelstrom of misinformation, conspiracy theories and general anti-science in lieu of theCOVID-19 pandemic, which came to the fore via our digital relays.

Is it ok to be pessimistic as opposed to Ghesquière's modernist based optimism?  Or can we mix the both and arrive at Albert Camus's philosophy of the absurd, by being that rebel, as quoted by Camus: "... obstinately confronts a world condemned to death and the impenetrable obscurity of the human condition with his demand for life and absolute clarity."  What ever one may chose in light of our dramatic shift occurring on the Earth and for that matter, our place in the cosmos, to which we maybe at a tipping point.  Yet, one has to admire Ghesquière's determination in drawing from the timelines of Utopian positivity, at least from a science fiction narrative and if you have the monetary weight that the LVMH group can deliver, all the power..."

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(A.Glass 2022)

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

Pre-Fall 2023 review soon.