Excerpt: Louis Vuitton. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...everything fades, and clothing over time perishes.  It's erosion is a process, as much as the biology that it covers.  And in our hyperreal world of dichotomies, that materialistic luxury brand name may not, in the end, give you much joy.   So, I am curious how long Ghesquière can revamp a 1950s esque Utopian concept, that never existed.  Even with what we all yearned for, in its stability of prosperity within a technologically advanced world.  The reality is, this futurist prefabrication is currently in a state of collapse.

And I'll let the intellectuals duke this out as the blame game is pointing in all directions, seldomly within.  My curiosity and study is of the counterculture years that transpired after the 1950s, when it imploded in on itself due to the rigidity of its conservatism, which is clearly detrimental to creativity.  And, as curious creatures that we are, creativity and the imagination, without the cliche, will indeed set us free.  If we are inclined to choose this path.  Is Ghesquière assisting in setting us free, with his retrofuturism aesthetics?..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/10/louis-vuitton-spring-2025-paris-fashion.html

(A.Glass 2024)