Excerpt: Louis Vuitton. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

  

"...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?     

I would say no.  Although, for his Spring 2025 collection Ghesquière has inserted within his conservative futurist elements for the collection, dashes of the epicurean, as though the 1950s futurism continued on throughout the 1960s, without the 'hippies' or Eastern inspired Boho Chic, conjoining with the 1970s with a less carnal and open impression, with only slight aspects of the amatory.  In similarity to some of the boxy, compressed 'power suit' styles of the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s.  Yet, the said fusions of a parallel reality do indeed work, and it is visually an interesting collection.  And Ghesquière's intention is not about adorning rebellious attire, or challenging the norm, it is about escapism.  In all of its possibilities, while experimenting with a parallel Earth's fashion. 

However, the collection does overall feel inundated, regulated and confined.   With a longing to be released into something more dramatic and risqué."

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

(A.Glass 2024)