With a collection that riffs on the designer’s greatest hits, Louis Vuitton staged a spectacular, celebratory A/W24 anniversary show to an audience of over four thousand
This collection, indeed, was made to be seen in dynamic motion, like the slashed dresses smothered with cut “feathers” of fabric that wrapped around the body, a riff on styles Ghesquière showed for Vuitton at a show in Brazil in 2016; like the pair of bouncing bouffant skirts that boomed out from the knees, a callback to the collection Ghesquière showed on the cusp of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ten years seems a long time in fashion; but it’s been an exceptional decade by any stretch.
In light of that, what I took away from this Louis Vuitton collection was the positivity of Ghesquière’s vision. The artist Philippe Parreno created a lunar landscape peppered with spiky chandeliers as the Vuitton show-set. It may have seemed austere and threatening to some eyes, but to Ghesquière and his clothes, it almost looked like home.