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This season, Louis Vuitton closes the Paris Women’s Fashion Week in style with the presentation of its fall-winter 2021-2022 collection, on the theme of Antiquity. For the occasion, the luxury house reopens the doors of the Louvre to the general public in a virtually retransmitted fashion show.
The show, which had requested an extra day at the Paris Fashion Week, was held Wednesday, March 10, at the Louvre Museum in Paris. On the notes of the title “Around the World” of the recently separated group Daft Punk, Louis Vuitton closes the fashion week with a cultural world tour.
In the Daru and Michelangelo galleries of the Louvre, Louis Vuitton models paraded in a unique setting, surrounded by the imposing statues of ancient Rome and Greece. For this collection, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton‘s women’s collections, Nicolas Ghesquière, called upon the Fornasetti workshop, founded in 1940 by sculptor, painter, engraver, and interior designer Piero Fornasetti.
Other luxury houses had previously called on the Fornasetti workshop to collaborate on collections, such as Valentino, or Philippe Starck. For its fall-winter 2021-2022 collection, Louis Vuitton looked to the artist’s pieces referencing ancient mythology, offering a coherence with the chosen location.
“I had this desire to do something with Fornasetti’s universe for a while,” Nicolas Ghesquière explains about the artist in an interview. “I like his story, his way of extending the drawing in multiple techniques, from pure illustration to design, decoration, publishing, scenography. Everything is possible. His collaboration with the architect Gio Ponti is fascinating. He is a free spirit who has multiplied the visual arts.”
Nicolas Ghesquière paid tribute to three emblematic figures from ancient mythology: the strength of Diana, the beauty of Venus, and the intelligence of Minerva. “These are my three graces,” the designer explains. “In short, the body, the heart, and the head.”
Steeped in culture down to the smallest detail, the collection features a quilted dress, featuring the faces of famous philosophers and thinkers, paying homage to Minerva. The warrior Diana is represented in the collection through winter spartans, parkas, and military details, while the goddess Venus shines through in the ultra-chic shiny dresses.
Louis Vuitton‘s fashion show is a risky bet on the avant-garde, with colorful, oversized outerwear jackets featuring the work of the Italian atelier, now run by Barnaba Fornasetti, the son of founder Piero. The film of the fashion show ends with a symbolic image: the Victory of Samothrace.
“I’m fascinated by the way Fornasetti has reinvented the legacy of classicism and ancient Rome while incorporating new references to historical imagery,” says Nicolas Ghesquière. “As a designer, I have always been captivated by fashion’s ability to simultaneously evoke the past, present, and future.”
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