Tuesday March 5 in Paris, 4 p.m., general panic: Meta announces that its services - Facebook, Messenger and Instagram - are affected by a global outage.
It's all over the networks and Internet users are complaining.
Around 6 p.m., everything works again, as if the colossus of the Web had worked so that the luxury giant, whose show is scheduled for 7 p.m., can broadcast its collection in streaming to the whole world.
Phew!
LV teams can breathe.
The most anticipated show of Fashion Week, the one celebrating Nicolas Ghesquière's 10th anniversary at the head of the trunk maker's women's ready-to-wear collections, can begin.
In the square courtyard of the Louvre, no fewer than 4,000 guests are expected.
The list of celebrities expected on the front row is as long as a day without night: from Cate Blanchett to Catherine Deneuve via Sandra Hüller, Lisa from Blackpink, Jennifer Connely, Zaho de Sagazan, Léa Seydoux, Emma Stone, Marina Fois , Lily Collins, Eve Jobs (the daughter of the co-founder of Apple), Sophie Turner, Sarah Paulson...
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Back to the future
All these prestigious guests enter a huge and futuristic greenhouse, under an Eiffel-style metal structure where large modular chandeliers, like flying saucers which light up intermittently, are linked together by electric cables.
The scenography is by Philippe Parreno, visual artist in collaboration with the cinema production designer, James Chinlund.
Welcome, therefore, to the fourth dimension of Nicolas Ghesquière, this designer born a few years after the first steps on the moon, child of an era imbued with space travel who will become this visionary fashion genius passionate about the fields from the future.
In resonance with the traveling philosophy of Louis Vuitton, the designer has, for 10 years, been inscribing his vision of avant-garde ready-to-wear with powerful and borderless femininity.
Always innovative fashion, with flawless precision, each season bringing its share of looks and accessories that have become iconic.
From March 5, 2013 to March 5, 2024
On the seats, a small text awaits the guests.
It is signed Nicolas Ghesquière.
“It’s a special evening,” he wrote, “an important evening.
Ten years ago, you attended my first fashion show for Louis Vuitton... Ten years later, tonight is a new morning... I wanted to continue this inspiring saga open to the future and the world, the philosophy of Louis Vuitton.
It's a beautiful journey.
I continue it.”
Of which act.
On the catwalk, references, eras, materials and cuts collide in a dynamic, ultra-energetic chic sportswear.
A sort of futuristic and sophisticated clothing tuning, each passage of which lights sparks in the eyes of the guests.
Squid Game
actress
Jung Hoyeon opens the Louis Vuitton fashion show MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP
The conquerors
The fashion show opens with athletic girls (including Jung Hoyeon, the star actress of
Squid Game
, ambassador of the house).
They are all in white, wearing technical jackets with high necklines and feathers on the cuffs over utility miniskirts.
Zipped ankle boots on their feet, a beaded headband on their heads or rhinestone veiled glasses on their eyes, they play a first science fiction score, then dash off in long transparent mermaid dresses embroidered with silver pastilles worn over ribbed knit leggings tights , their hands covered by yeti-style boxing gloves which give them a very conquering appearance.
Telescoping
Louis Vuitton fall-winter 2024-2025 show Giovanni Giannoni
Hybrid silver cosmonaut suits rub shoulders with very chic structured neoprene jackets, aristocratic tailcoat coats appear over long draped dresses, extreme volume petticoats, from another time, are worn with tees. white shirts and jackets crossed with graphic bands.
There is
Blade Runner
in the air,
Stranger Things
in the mind (Millie Bobby Brown, heroine of the series is in the front row) and a post-feminist impulse too, as these beanies on the ears of cat who style models in the spirit of the “pussyhat” of anti-Trump American women.
Added to this is a luxuriously baroque touch, like the touches of opulent spotted faux fur which warm up t-shirts and skirts with scarf ends, these sublimely embroidered bolero jackets, worn over leather miniskirts with vibrant tones, or these K-Way spirit blouse and pant sets in gold silk brocade.
Félix, member of the South Korean group Stray Kids, new ambassador of the brand, takes the podium and ignites the room even more in his futuristic sportswear outfit.
Louis Vuitton fall-winter 2024-2025 show Giovanni Giannoni
Standing Ovation
In the finale, long asymmetrical tank dresses, variegated with feathers and twisted by ankle boots in pop colors, finished delighting the audience.
Nicolas Ghesquière comes to greet, standing ovation.
Meta continues to work and the first posts are starting to pour in.
The energy of the parade electrifies until the exit in the rain, compliments flying from all sides.
Outside, the illuminated Louvre pyramid winks at guests.