Nicolas Ghesquière pursues an exploration that caps ten years of creativity at Louis Vuitton and this season presents the Pre-fall 2024 collection with a new Voyager show at Long Museum in Shanghai.
Echoes of earlier designs punctuate a decade in fashion, reflecting the roots of a noble French fashion House and the distinctive emblems that make it unique. Today, they are renewed with unbridled freedom of tone and form. An exuberance of colour and joyfulness salutes the tremendous stylistic vitality of China’s youth, and for this collection the House teamed up with the young contemporary artist Sun Yitian, whose charming, figurative bestiary enlivens contrasted silhouettes. Short confronts long. At times they unite, conjoining refinement and audacity. Oppositional prints make for happy marriages. Classicism goes tangential, giving outfits a charming zeal. In this fast-paced collection, accessories punctuate the narrative, recounting in their own way the innovative saga behind the great trunk-maker.
