Creator of a new way of conceiving the prêt-à-porter and avant-garde father of the newborn street-couture, Virgil Abloh and his diaologue between fashion, luxury, design and street-style were already on everyone’s lips when he made Off -White the cult-brand of the year. Judged by many, shortly after his entry as creative director of Louis Vuitton menswear, a break point between the heritage of the French fashion house and its possible scenarios, does not cease to amaze the loyals of the brand with eclectic proposals that have also hit the heart of the most suspicious.
No recovery to the streetwear world this time, in the era of its maximum stylistic exposure would have been too obvious for the Afro-American visionary who is revolutionizing the world of high fashion. Pop and fantasy are the routes that guide the men F / W 2019 towards new and never predictable meanings.
With allusions to the world of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz whose colorful moodboard continues to dominate and the new pop recall to the iconic Michael Jackson, this collection represents the keystone of the brand’s new stylistic codes. The accessories and especially the bags had already revolutionized the Vuitton universe thanks to new transparencies and iridescent elements. Today between glow-in-the-dark prints and rainbow palettes, they have definitely left everyone speechless.
Between games of shapes, sizes and colors the leitmotif of the travel is kept by Virgil, creating a unique connection between the past and the present of the Maison. Taking up the iconic Keepall and Trunk models and giving a new interpretation of the monogram, now bulkier and in allover, the new LV bags have soon become the object of the desires of some of the main fashion addicts. In spite of what was rumored in fact, we have not seen mere upheavals but evolutions of something already powerful reinterpreted in a cosmopolitan and contemporary way that can only be a success for the brand, now more than ever fated to give birth to great things. Glancing back, headed forward.