Excerpt: Louis Vuitton. Fall 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"With the corporatism desires, capitalism's evil twin, of a current U.S. President in overdrive, and certain European leaders slowly warming to the idea that private entities and the State can work, once tried in the 1800s and 1930s (Italy), hand-in-hand for the greater good of an incorporated society.  The owner of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), one of Europe's competing Billionaires, Bernard Arnault, called President Trump days after his inauguration, in lieu of Trump's plans to Tariff every country he can think of (a very Fascist economic policy), including France, to bring back all industries to America.  And LVMH, due to the fact Arnault is a friend of the Trump familia, may indeed cut a Tariff reprieve on conditions that Louis Vuitton move some, or all, of their manufacturing base to America, to be under Trump's economic megalomania. 

I have been reviewing  Nicolas Ghesquière's Louis Vuitton shows for over 7 years, and undoubtedly the Belgium designer who has been with Louis Vuitton for 10 years, has an infatuation with the 1950s proto-futurist aesthetical template of a future that never was, and Ghesquière has certainly mastered his craft, in developing his sleek, modernist styles that have graced the runways of Paris, Seoul and Shanghai over his decade long tenure..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/03/louis-vuitton-fall-2025-paris-fashion.html