As debuts go, the Virgil Abloh Louis Vuitton SS19 show got all of the buzz and all of the love. The show sounds like a total emosh-fest, with Virgil and Kanye openly bawling all over each other at the finale. I wasn’t there but I saw it on the ‘Gram, which these days practically amounts to the same thing.
My verdict? It would have benefited with a much tighter edit. (more…)
“Product is only one part of the luxury narrative. I want to use Louis Vuitton’s history with travel to really look at different cultures around the world to help make all our humanity visible. When creativity melds together with global issues, I believe you can bring the world together. Fashion on this level can really open eyes.”
Virgil Abloh, on his appointment as menswear artistic director at Louis Vuitton, New York Times (more…)
Louis Vuitton menswear is really going for it on the streetwear hookup front. I wasn’t that crazy about the Supreme collab, it seemed a bit heavy handed, but the latest collaboration for pre-fall 2017 with Fragment Design is more my bag. (more…)
