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Nicolas Ghesquière: "Creation at Louis Vuitton is to defy gravity"

2021-03-11T08:22:47.646Z


INTERVIEW - Thanks to his parade next winter, broadcast on Wednesday, the trunk-maker has “reopened” the doors of the Louvre to the whole world. Facing the pyramid and the “Winged Victory of Samothrace”, the silhouette as refined as it is avant-garde of its artistic director makes Paris shine.


Tuesday, on the eve of the broadcast of the fall-winter 2021-22 fashion show, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton told us the details of this collection of remarkable opulence and radicality.

Each silhouette borrows from the history of haute couture of the 1950s (a hand no doubt inherited from its unforgettable time at Balenciaga), from the know-how and innovation specific to Louis Vuitton, but also from an almost experimental textile refinement. reminiscent of the culture of Japan, the designer's heartland.

Walking through the galleries of the deserted Louvre, where the music of Daft Punk resounded, looking at these Amazons in armor of astonishing lightness and generosity, we said to ourselves that Nicolas Ghesquière was perpetuating not a certain madness of grandeur, but a madness and a very French grandeur.

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