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

 

"...The answer maybe very subtle, seen at Ghesquière's Fall 2025 collection, held at the disused "L’Étoile du Nord" train station in Paris. the very slight avant-garde is indeed creeping into Ghesquière's Louis Vuitton, showing that the Belgium designer, is very much beginning to 'own', at least aesthetically, the iconic fashion brand.  Despite Louis Vuitton being owed by Billionaire, Bernard Arnault, Ghesquière reshaping the historic brand name, has been no sudden game changer.

Ghesquière's latest collection under the Cruise or Resort banner, as a prelude to the Spring Summer 2026 collections beginning at Milan Fashion Week on the 20th June 2025, was held at the 14th Century Palais des Papes in Avignon, South East of Paris.  Once the epicenter of modern Christianity, more so catholicism, with a very checkered and brutal past in the centuries that followed.  Ghesquière continues to slice up his 1950s modernist template that he so much adores, whilst offering an array of asymmetrical, recuts and patchwork styles, drawing in that spillover from the 1970s into the early 1980s hedonism, with, dare I say, punk styles ala the late 1970s.  With a glammed up version (and legend), according to Ghesquière, of Excalibur as a centrepiece.  With all its 80s opulence and theatrics, although Ghesquière did not specifically say that the 1981 John Boorman "Excalibur" was a direct influence..."

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

(A.Glass 2025)