Paris Fashion Week is coming to an end, and the finale Louis Vuittons 23 Autumn and Winter Show was ushered in on March 6, Beijing time. The show has not yet begun, and the heat has exploded. #Liu Yifei's Paris show style#, #Zhou Dongyu's waist contrast style#, #LV#, #LV's women's clothing# and more than ten topics have been rotating on the hot list. After all, after three years, Liu Yifei and Zhou Dongyu made their first appearance at Fashion Week and watched the show on the same stage occupied the topic.
At the scene of the runway, Liu Yifei, Gu Ailing and Li Huiren sat together in the front row of the show, and also brushed the Internet, #Liu Yifei Li Huiren Gu Ailing in the same frame#, #Gu Ailing Li Huiren's age is Liu Yifei's age #The topic is read wildly, so lively!
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The fairies gathered in the front row of the LV show
At the scene, the familiar Louis Vuittons "old friends" were all present, brand spokespersons Liu Yifei and Zhou Dongyu came to the scene together, wearing Louis Vuitton spring/summer 2023 women's wear series, Liu Yifei was wearing a zipper print short skirt, high boots, holding a light-colored leather bag, a superb fairy sister.
Zhou Dongyu's look comes from the spring and summer runway closing Look, holding a LV COUSSIN handbag, an open-waisted leather black dress with a back combed bun, neat and capable.
LV's good friend, Gu Ailing, also came to the scene, and the all-black leather suit slay was the whole audience. Before watching the show, the unchanged "recipe" is that Gu Ailing is still changing her homework while doing styling.
It is worth noting that the newly announced LV menswear art director, Pharrell Williams, also came to the scene to support, and the emerald green cashmere jacket with jeans is indeed a street style boss.
There were also many old friends of LV, Sophie Turner, Emma Stone, Zendaya and others, who also came to the scene to be in the front row to help LV's latest season of fashion show release.
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The past, present and future of French flair
Louis Vuitton's Fall/Winter 23 Women's Ready-to-Wear Show, as usual, was staged on the penultimate day of Paris Fashion Sunday in the dome of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France, where Nicole Ghesquière, the brand's womenswear artistic director, together with artist Philippe Parreno and art director James Chinlund, once again teamed up to create the runway set and bring Nicolas Becker's sound concept to life. Reinventing a new era of French style.
In recent years, the global sporting event is almost once a year, and the following year, the organizers of the Summer Olympics came to France, as the representative of French fashion, Louis Vuitton chose French style as the theme of the entire show, in an interview, the brand creative director Nicole Ghesquière gave a more specific source of inspiration.
The concept for Louis Vuitton's latest autumn collection came to mind after returning from a trip last year, when the world finally opened up again, from globalization to localization to globalization, "What is French style?" "It's an ambitious question, but at Vuittons, you have a certain responsibility because the name of the brand is so strong in the world." He explained that his idea was to ask young designers in the studio what they thought about the subject, "because they're very international and I'm curious to see what they'll think." Unsurprisingly, they all brought back something very different, which they said was French.
So, what French flair does this design team, made up of people from different parts of the world, bring to this theme? There are many, just like the past, present and future often said in religion, various representatives in three different times and spaces, and the Louis Vuitton womenswear team also tells their perception of French style in their language from these three different time clues.
The French style of the past was luxury
The French style of the past, with countless luxury, seems to have returned to the era of endless balls. Just like today's young people like to wear Hanfu, in France, there are also many young people on special holidays, wearing corsets and huge skirts, exquisite embroidery shuttles decorating all over the costume.
Men's clothing and women's use, such techniques are also used in this series, in the past men would wear large puff sleeves, wide waist to show their noble status, in today's fashion show, they are tightened by a very thin belt, some with futuristic fabrics are cut to such silhouettes, it is easy to think of Nicole's alien collection created in the early days of LV, on the runway, who doesn't want to be the most visible person?
The blessing of rich round necks and shaped collars was also a symbol of the wearer's status in the past, and it may be difficult to see intricate creations on the street today, but when explaining the French style of the past, who can easily let such an interesting element slip away?
The French style now is rambling
Coming to a more modern timeline, the French style in the movie is always inseparable from a slip dress, a woolen scarf as long as a red rope, and in the sudden rainy season, the stress-free jacket that can be hung up casually and worn anywhere, overlapping and stacking, a little casual, but also a lot of ingenuity condensed in it.
What you wear on the outside may be a high-end gray tweed coat, but when you arrive at an occasion where you need to wear it, this coat allows you to wear it on your wrist, while walking, watching a small exhibition in the theater or art museum, leaning a little, reading the introduction of a painting, embellishing the musical instruments and accessories in between, and inadvertently, revealing your excellent taste and unique aesthetics.
What is the French style of the future?
And to the more modern French style interpretation, as if Emily in the Paris drama, a variety of elements of the integration, so that some of the past unchanged elements more diverse exposition, such as the French tricolor flag, French skirt and silhouette is a wide men's jacket, near the evening, a group of people sat at a small table outside a restaurant on the Seine, a glass of red wine spit out the chaotic life, while imagining those that belong to tomorrow's beauty, is indeed the daily life of many French young people.
In the film festival screening list in recent years, French films have once again found their rhythm in the general trend, "Future Things", "Paris Night Traveler", slowly tell about a woman's efforts and persistence, put some careless daily small things, shoot a light and romantic sense of literature and art, in the slow rhythm, inject deep and strong emotions, make people feel warm at the same time, but also bring out the most straightforward care between people, perhaps this is a difficult issue for large commercial brands to complete, But in Nicole Ghesquière's collections, you can always feel it from time to time.
However, the interpretation of the French flag has also triggered some international crises, and the different compositions of red, white and blue can be composed of the French flag, and can be changed slightly into the Russian flag, with a V-shaped splicing in the middle, which may be reminiscent of the early days of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, the decoration of the logo on the vehicles of its troops, which also caused the dissatisfaction of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, one of his senior advisers Mikhail The day before the official launch, Podoliak slammed Louis Vuitton's fashion launch video as "covered in blood", saying on social media: "A running fashion house focused on the Russian nouveau riche chooses to openly play with the symbol of aggression, luxury is more fragrant when it is soaked in blood, right, Louis Vuitton?" ”
Louis Vuitton did not respond to a request for comment, and while some online observers said Louis Vuitton's ads were not sensitive enough, many people have hung the same temperament over the company's flagship store in Paris since at least 2014, and Louis Vuitton has used such a combination since at least 1901, as can be seen in the brand's museum bags.
Zoom in for details
Back on the runway, when you get caught up in the sound of high heels, car horns, cabaret singing and the background sound of the Bastille Day marching band, you may almost miss the interesting details, Nicole's details are all interesting.
The show's beautiful collection of soft pleated fabrics is somewhat reminiscent of the artistic transformation of the Arc de Triomphe and other landmarks by the late designers Christo and Jeanne Claude, and that belt is the invisible shapemaker. Hitting the thinnest part of the waist, the women's waist line is like that draped hem, which is addictive.
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Musical instruments interspersed with different shapes, large and small dots, when I first saw the golden French horn, it was reminiscent of the romantic romance of my parents and the blue French horn that first made Ted and Aunt Robin fall in love, perhaps the design team felt that French romance could not lack the blessing of musical instruments, in this way, they were designed, or did they hope that someone could use such a piece as a token of love to open a different kind of relationship, how much did it confirm the French style again?
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Bags and handbags, in this season, there are both reinterpretations of old flowers and enamel-like rectangular bags, like the special small bag when climbing the theater stairs when movie stars wear giant exaggerated furs in the old days, and bubble cloud-like red, white and blue clutches, with LV's classic rotating buttons, which will be a hit in the future.
There is also a retro style that seems to be taken directly from the Louis Vuittons Museum, green handbags, in a group of calm colors, quite jumpy, now think about it, let Pharrell Williams carry out on the street, it is also quite right; Another handbag in the shape of a house also adopts a similar idea, a small house handbag, which is very interesting.
The direction of shoes has gone to two extremes, one extreme is the now popular surrealism, which directly prints black shoes and white socks on high boots; The other extreme is to deconstruct the French high heels into a line, which is very artistic.
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Throughout the show, there is also a very outrageous piece, a luminous strip-shaped glasses frame, like a window into the future, perhaps in the near future, Louis Vuittons can cooperate with which technology company to develop a new era of VR equipment.
After watching the show, during a backstage interview, it is conceivable that a reporter will ask Nicole Ghesquière, the creative director of the brand, whether he has drawn conclusions about French style, and he shakes his head and replies: "No." Every season we try to answer this question, but we haven't finished it. We've done the difference this season, but the French style belongs to everyone. ”
And what about you? Do you have an answer to the French flair?
Written by: Juruaj | Editor: Zhou Yang | Typesetting: Feng Xuan