Day of frenzy on the left bank in Paris.
In front of the Musée d'Orsay, the big day crowd stampedes in the cold hoping to catch a glimpse of the celebrities expected at the Louis Vuitton show.
Sedans with smoked windows follow one another.
With each new arrival, the shrill screams of the fans indicate the popularity rating of the stars.
The actresses Ana de Armas, Léa Seydoux, Sophie Turner, Noémie Merlant, Alicia Vikander won the votes in a joyous hubbub.
Emma Stone arrives through a back door.
The regulatory delay of thirty minutes has already been largely reached.
The parade must begin.
However, a star is still missing.
She finally arrives: Zendaya is there, it's a riot.
She steps forward ultra-sexy in a set of minishorts and a tiger print blazer, open on a black bra, brushing squared and a devastating smile.
The icon of a generation, the cult heroine of
Euphoria
and
Dune
,
waves to the crowd and runs to her place in the front row, alongside Pharrell Williams, the new artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear. , under the crystal chandeliers of the museum's very Napoleon III paneled lounges.
The show begins.
The confident look, hands in the pockets, in wide trousers worn with a men's waistcoat, at the Louis Vuitton fall-winter 2023-2024 show.
BENOIT TESSIER / REUTERS
A vision of the French Touch
On the eve of the general strike, a free and democratic expression that the French have mastered so well, Nicolas Ghesquière is interested in a completely different national specificity: the French style.
“What is the French style?
», asks the artistic director with relevance.
Its entire fall-winter 2023-24 collection pays tribute to this “
French Touch
which never ceases to captivate” – the whole world –, while delivering its own vision.
What he calls “an enigma”.
The French style according to Louis Vuitton is illustrated with these girls strolling around in sensual strapless dresses worn over large casual knit sweaters that break the silhouette.
(Fall-winter 2023-2024 ready-to-wear fashion show.) JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP
Mix eras
We find the indefinable charm of a French allure in these reinvented classic suits or these wise dresses with banker's stripes: "the audacious tradition", underlines Nicolas Ghesquière again.
It's all a question of attitude, a way of mixing eras, cultures, clothes of course.
The French style is blatant on these girls strolling in sensual strapless dresses worn over large casual knit sweaters that break the silhouette.
They arouse a paradox, suggest a mystery.
This style shines on silhouettes in parkas with completely redesigned oversized volumes, as if inflated with sovereign energy, on remarkable ornate dresses.
It is further illustrated in the confident demeanor of a woman walking nonchalantly, hands in her pockets,
in wide trousers worn with a man's waistcoat.
"It's sophistication in a dilettante gesture", summarizes the designer.
A very couture collection, emphasizing the unique know-how of the workshops of French fashion houses like Louis Vuitton.
BENOIT TESSIER / REUTERS
The essential and the exception
This season, fashion designers are going straight to the point.
There is surely, in the air, a need, a necessity.
This urgency has not escaped Nicolas Ghesquière who grasps the spirit of the times like no one else.
Its collection, refined, with a classicism in its own way – never cut off from visions of the future – is authentic.
It is, moreover, very couture too, emphasizing the unique know-how of the workshops of French fashion houses like Louis Vuitton.
A certain idea of elegance to be linked with the priceless French exception.
