Louis Vuitton Resort 2022
Imagine a long, red bridge canopied with angular arches set against a cloud-dappled blue sky, and a fleet of young women striding confidently over it, their low-heeled boots as colorful as flags.
As it’s June, it could be a Pride march, but it was in fact Louis Vuitton’s cruise 2022 show, which transmitted the same jubilant energy, along with a sense of pageantry – and a gust of fashion daring.
“It’s this expression of enthusiasm,” said Nicolas Ghesquière, who let loose with juicy colors, rich jacquards, snappy Sixties shapes and a slew of references to space conquest, a treasured theme for the French designer – and perhaps the final frontier for a company like Vuitton, its roots in travel since 1854.
Ghesquière has known about the show setting on the outskirts of Paris, a monumental installation by the late Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan known as Axe Majeur, for at least half a dozen years.
“Sometimes, exoticism is not that far away from us,” he said, flashing a smile over a Zoom call from his country home.
