Overlooking the sea of the Bay of Guanabara, the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro, designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1996, hosted the fashion show of the collection Louis Vuitton Cruise 2017 . Among inspirations derived by the striking setting of sophisticated artistic features, Nicolas Ghesquière He presented a luxuriously sporty woman, thus maintaining its pragmatic-chic approach. For this Cruise collection, two dominant influences alternated, creating a stylistic division, without, however, making any interruption required.

The first part of the show offers the classic overlays, so dear to the French designer, reinterpreted, with reference and tribute to the Brazilian Hélio Oiticica , master of three-dimensional representation of color, through a blend of bright tones and volumes of skydiving. The clothes are then an evolution of the suits of air stuntman, with capes and asymmetrical taffeta drapes, which are combined in colorful parkas and porthole openings, strategically positioned to emphasize femininity.

The second part of the fashion show features the ruffles, which become the basis for polychrome prints, representing a tribute to Aldemir Martins , another famous Brazilian painter, whose naturalism, accompanied by the artist’s passion for football, they inspired the hand Nicolas Ghesquière. Finally the sea, takes charge of combining all the themes of the collection, and in more severe marinate jackets and coats with big metal buttons, lacing it through alive, and in the various garments, evoking the idea of a beach towel stopped by a node.

The subtle Lurex scarves and belts, have maxi logo visible and monogram print, re-edited in key Carioca, in combination with classic handbags of the Maison, which as always are the piece de resistance of the collection, among which stands out the unusual, Dada-like, big-bag in stereo version 90s.

 

– Photography Karim Sadli