Excerpt: Louis Vuitton. Resort 2026 - Palais des Papes in Avignon.

 

"Can Nicolas Ghesquière's morph out of his love affair with 1950s esque futurism in all of its modernist splendor?  In other words the future-that-never-was, be it a nuclear powered expanding middle class, and space faring society, styled on its transfixed modernity, while the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s countercultures never happened.  Which in turn didn't ruin the dream of a patriarchal driven, rapid at-all-costs progressive society marching into nuclear war (yes, we  all await those missile defence shields and mega city domes).  In our currently confused, hyperreal, yet very dangerous attempt at recreating that 1950 styled utopia wonderland by one of the most dangerous, and unstable, U.S. Presidents the world has even seen, not only is there no counterculture on the horizon, and what did resemble some simulacrum basis of dissent, via social media, and in government jobs, has been wiped clean, for the time being.  So, can, in lieu of the said question above, with some elaboration, Ghesquière offer a slight backlash, through the Louis Vuitton template?..."

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Full review:chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/05/louis-vuitton-resort-2026-palais-des.html 

(A.Glass 2025)