PARIS, June 23 (Reuters) – Louis Vuitton turned up the volume at Paris Fashion Week on Thursday, inviting Florida’s famous Marching 100 band to the heart of the Louvre to kick off a show of its latest line of colorful styles. menswear, named after the label’s popular late designer, Virgil Abloh.
“Virgil, long live Virgil,” rapper Kendrick Lamar intoned, sitting next to model Naomi Campbell on a bright yellow track, a puffy toy race track that snaked around a cobblestone courtyard with a fountain running in the background. center.
Performers from the Florida A&M University band twirled the flags to the fanfare of wind instruments, breaking into dance moves before exiting the runway in formation, clearing the way for the models.
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FAMU’s band Incomparable Marching “100” performs during fashion house Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2023 collection show during Men’s Fashion Week in Paris, France, June 23, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
For the spring-summer collection, the fashion house’s menswear studio drew on Abloh’s signature tailoring, sending elongated suits in pastel hues, jackets covered in wildflower prints or embellishments like paper airplane shapes and dangling patches. in the form of scissors. There were twisted, psychedelic biker jackets, fringed jean jackets, knit beanie hats, and jagged-edged shirts worn with loose-fitting Bermuda shorts.
At the end of the show, the models carried a lightweight strip of pastel rainbow fabric, recalling Abloh’s first Paris show for the label in 2018, which he staged on a rainbow catwalk, symbolizing his approach to fashion. diversity.
Abloh, fashion’s most high-profile black designer, died last year at the age of 41 after a battle with cancer. He was known for taking inspiration from the streets and is credited with cementing the arrival of streetwear into the world of high-end fashion. read more
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