MANIFESTO

#61

ART NOW

POETRY OF YOUTH

2022.03.08

By MADDALENA IODICE

Nicolas Ghesquière channels youthful sense of experimentation and enhances the crucial role kids have in shaping today’s culture. 

For Louis Vuitton Fall Winter 2022 Collection, Nicolas Ghesquière celebrates the unresolved poetry of adolescence, its impermanence and beautiful volatility. An excursion into a decisive moment when you have the feeling the world is at your feet. You want it all. For this one, the Creative Director, who masters the art of clashing time and space through his practice, decided to explore a very specific time frame and that sense of inexorable freedom that defines it. Rather than mashing up historical references he channeled youthful sense of experimentation and enhanced the crucial role kids have in shaping today’s culture.
The Musée d’Orsay hosted its first runway show as Louis Vuitton youngsters walked in sporty rugby shirts showing evening dresses underneath, fluid oversized tailoring pieces, school uniform skirt, paisley pants, chunky sweaters wrapped around waists and vintage floral neckties. Youthful stylish nonchalance. Panniers and bustle shapes echoed Ghesquière’s Spring Collection but were re-worked in softer knit and tweed infused with that neo-prep, grandma skater look that infused the whole collection. 

“This collection is dedicated to youth, in hopes that it can keep the unresolved poetry of adolescence like a flawless garment – in all its vivid romanticism, inspiring idealism, hope for the future, for a better world, and its dreams of perfection.”

-NICOLAS GHESQUIÈRE

BOTTEGA VENETA

BEYOND BORDERS

2023.09.24

Matthieu Blazy takes us through a physical and metaphorical journey, far away, in search of something else, and at the same time intimate, discovering the self. Clothes transform, men and women disguise and change, blending.

LOUIS VUITTON

GHESQUIÈRE OCTOBER 2014

2023.09.20

The GO-14 bag, an acronym for Ghesquière October 2014, originated as one of the first creations to mark the designer’s debut at the head of the Louis Vuitton Maison.

NEWS

On Foot

2023.09.19

The exhibition On Foot, curated by Jonathan Anderson at Offer Waterman Gallery, will bring contemporary artists in dialogue with works of modern British Art and some interventions conceived by the designer himself.

EXHIBITION

MODE ET SPORT. D'UN PODIUM À L'AUTRE

2023.09.18

Ahead of the 2024 Olympics, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris presents Mode et Sport: from September 20th 2023 will be possible to discover the fascinating interconnections between fashion and sport from the ancient world to the present day.

V&A Museaum

FASHION MANIFESTO

2023.09.15

The first exhibition in the UK dedicated to the visionary couturier Gabrielle Coco Chanel – Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto will open on September 16th 2023 at the Victoria & Albert Museum.