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Cruise 2023 Show

Nicolas Ghesquière presented his Louis Vuitton Cruise 2023 Collection at the Salk Institute in California on Thursday, May 12th.

The sun is the Artistic Director’s guest of honor in the Cruise 2023 collection, playing an active part in the evolution of this wardrobe where changes in temperature set a stylistic tempo. The unique light of the West Coast creates prisms across shimmering silhouettes, while a myriad of natural materials gives the illusion of a metallic palette.

I wanted the clothes to be like reflections, a point of contact between light and people.

As if on a utopian crossing, the collection can be seen to either celebrate the sun or provide protection from it. From looks that evoke a desert-climate to metal tones that reflect solar rays, Nicolas Ghesquière explores the contrast between structured constructions and fluid draping, between technology and the earth.

Salk Institute

Continuing his tradition of staging his Cruise shows in some of the world’s most remarkable architectural structures, Nicolas Ghesquière chose the Salk Institute in California to present his Louis Vuitton collection. Designed by Louis Kahn in 1965, this Brutalist masterpiece is both a treasure of modern architecture and an internationally renowned research institute.

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5 Things To Know About Louis Vuitton’s Supersized SS23 Show

By Anders Christian Madsen

Louis Vuitton ’s Nicolas Ghesquière played with proportions this season, from oversized zips to magnified textural details. Below, see Anders Christian Madsen’s key takeaways from the French fashion house’s spring/summer 2023 show in Paris. 

The show took place under a massive flower

“Honey, I shrunk the kids!” As a red curtain went up around the centre of the Cour Carrée – the courtyard of the Louvre – circled by the Louis Vuitton runway, a giant flower was revealed. There we were, downsized by Nicolas Ghesquière in a sweeping surreal gesture that put the whole world into a new perspective. Granted, four weeks of fashion shows also make you somewhat delirious, so the experience was trippy: models came out in dresses that supersized the details of coats, from gigantic zips to colossal epaulettes, massive buttons and enormous poppers, and magnified details of hardware printed on garments. The soundtrack ordered us to “work it!” You felt a little bit like the Ant-Man.

Nicolas Ghesquière played with scale and perspective

Over its four-week course, the seasonal month of ready-to-wear shows has a tendency to minimise your perspective. Because everything is so packed and frantic, you can easily feel like you’re losing touch with the reality of the outside world. Sitting under Ghesquière’s scaled-up flower – created by the artist Philippe Parreno – and taking in those larger-than-life clothing details felt like a much-needed mind-expansion after a month of shows in the shadows of quite dismal real-world events. They need no elaboration, but between the Russian annexation of eastern Ukraine, the human rights conflicts in Iran, and the momentousness of the Queen’s death, it’s been a pretty shattering month.

Textures were magnified microscopic details

You could have studied the details of Ghesquière’s collection for days, or at least longer than what a passing runway look allows. The technical merit was insane: fabric and leather surfaces manipulated through treatments and embellishments to resemble minute elements seen through a microscope. The density was dizzying but, because of the collection’s conceptual approach, never nauseating the way too much surface decoration can easily come across. On the contrary, the addition of those magnified outerwear details – like tops and dresses with giant zips down the front and on the cuffs of sleeves – imbued the proceedings with an abstraction that quickly became magnetic to watch unfold.

The collection echoed the season’s theme of simplicity

With his macroscopic micro world, Ghesquière was giving us a new perspective. But there was another sensibility to the collection, which echoed an undercurrent present in other shows this season. Like Miuccia Prada, whose Prada and Miu Miu collection investigated ideas of simplicity, the message of the Louis Vuitton show very much seemed to be a reflection of our present-day capacity – or lack thereof – for understanding nuance. Nowadays, if you want anyone to listen to you, look at you, buy your clothes – or vote for you – you have to exaggerate and inflate your point to get it across. It’s true for the public debate, for politics, and for fashion, too. Like Prada, Ghesquière didn’t appease that idea, but staged an intelligent comment on it.

The product game was strong

In the upscaled process, Ghesquière threw in some pretty awesome pieces: a grey cocoon coat with massive pockets and a supersized zip, a textured brown leather trench coat with overblown epaulettes and giant industrial push-buttons, big wide 1980s belts, chequerboard boots, and augmented clutch bags that puffed up the Louis Vuitton monogram to new proportions, too. It’s a phrase oft-used but never more meaningful than in this instance: you’d have live under a rock not to be impacted by Ghesquière’s collection.

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Women’s Spring-Summer 2023

Women's spring-summer 2023 collection, the campaign.

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Louis Vuitton will present its 2023 cruise show in California

By Marthe Mabille

This season, the cruise collections are unveiling their sunny locations: after the announcement of the Chanel show in Monaco on May 5, or Max Mara in Lisbon on June 28, it's Louis Vuitton 's turn to reveal its warm destination. Although far away, the French house is heading to California, in the United States, to present its 2023 cruise show.

While the exact location has not yet been revealed, Louis Vuitton said in an official statement that it wants to continue "its architectural journey of showcasing cruise collections in exclusive locations of exceptional design and renown around the world." We remember in particular the Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation, nestled in the heights of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, on the French Riviera, for their show in 2018. Or, the TWA terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, designed by Finnish architect Eero Saarinen in 1962, for the 2020 cruise show. But there was also the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, Brazil (which is none other than Oscar Niemeyer 's last masterpiece) in 2016 and the Miho Museum in Kyoto the following year, which in turn was designed by the architect of the Louvre pyramid, Ieoh Ming Pei .

With California as its focus, Louis Vuitton 's ambition to be first and foremost a luxury brand seems to be slowly picking up steam this year, after a season that was somewhat stalled by the Covid-19 pandemic. In any case, to discover the new architectural jewel chosen by the house, we will have to wait until May 12. 

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For over 20 years, Louis Vuitton has instilled its signature Spirit of Travel into its growing City Guide series to propose fresh and personal perspectives on a variety of destinations across the globe. Featuring independent writers and guests with wide and varied backgrounds, each guide spots trends and reveals unique insights: from grand luxury hotels to charming boutique inns, top-tier restaurants to neighborhood bistros, antique shops to fashion boutiques, along with iconic must-sees and little‑known places. Special guest contributors, secret places, walking tours, cultural events, recommendations from savvy journalists, photographic portfolios – the spirit of the Louis Vuitton City Guide series is constantly evolving, taking its unique approach in new directions.

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Louis Vuitton Takes Fashion to the Max With Oversized Detail Proportions for SS23

Zippers, buckles, buttons and pockets come in xl for next season..

Nicolas Ghesquière‘s showcase of exponentially large ready-to-wear enhancements for Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2023 collection, took fashion to the max for the last day of Paris Fashion Week .

For LV , next season’s zippers, buckles and pockets will come in XL sizes for womenswear, as sleeveless tops, skirts, pants and jackets have been adorned with some of the largest-ever zipper sizes that have been manufactured and produced for a high-end clothing collection.

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