Excerpt: Louis Vuitton. Fall 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...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.  

And for his Fall 2025 collection, he held the event within the halls of the "L’Étoile du Nord", a disused 19th Century train station, in homage to the famous "Étoile du Nord" train, which linked France to Belgium with all its European romanticism.  And trains, throughout the 1900s offered the Italian Futurists, prelude to Fascism, the thrill of speed, and unchecked human progress as it cuts through forests, mountains and nations, so it seems fitting that Ghesquière holds a similar sentiment of 1950s esque progress.  Also note, the 2013 science fiction film Snowpiercer was an inspiration for the collection.  Of course, I am not calling dear Ghesquière a proto-Fascist, even though his boss does like Trump, be it that his latest collection, as mentioned, offers a defined avant-garde slant on some of the more rigid Louis Vuitton style's of the last 10 years.  Is there a subtle backlash forming from Ghesquière?..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

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