Excerpt: Louis Vuitton. Fall 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...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.  Ghesquière has held his extravagant runway shows at a plethora of humanist monuments, from the famous "TWA Flight Center" at JFK Airport, New York, the late Louis Kahn's brutalist masterpiece the"Salk Institute" in San Diego,  the"Fondation Maeght" museum in Saint-Paul de Vence and the impressive "Jamsu Bridge", which is stands over the Han River in Seoul, South Korea.

Modernist grandeur and Ghesquière's impression for Louis Vuitton are very much his imprint for LVMH, yet of late, with his more recent runway shows, there has been, dare I say, a avant-garde fusion creeping in, overlaying Ghesquière's former modernist sleekness.  And as the originator of those retro 1950s futuristic Louis Vuitton styles, Ghesquière maybe slowly morphing away from the look..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

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