LOUIS VUITTON: Young Adulthood for Fall 2022 at the Paris Fashion Week Runway

Louis Vuitton led by Nicolas Ghesquière delivered young adulthood for Fall 2022 at the Paris Fashion Week runway and here are some highlights!

Ghesquière called the collection “an excursion into a perceptible, fleeting, and decisive moment when everything comes to the fore, in all its innocence and insight. The impermanence and beautiful volatility of adolescence.”

“Channeling the sense of youthful experimentation he remembers, Ghesquière topped evening dresses with sporty rugby shirts or chunky sweaters wrapped around waists. This was the most charming grouping in the show, evoking how a teenage girl might co-opt her boyfriend’s clothes. He also played with androgynous tailoring, often in oversized shapes. If you suddenly see young women sporting old men’s ties this fall, you’ll know why. Other silhouettes looked delineated from Ghesquière’s more extravagant collection for spring, only here the pannier and bustle shapes were remixed in softer embroidered knit and tweed, which made them look more everyday. The randomness was part of the point. “Freedom is all,” he wrote, “without directive or impediment.”

Tapping into nostalgia might’ve stirred up a kind of melancholy. Youth is fleeting, and so is freedom. Ghesquère has it differently. There’s a lot riding on kids today, but in young people he sees “inspiring idealism, hope for the future, [and] for a better world.” In that sense he wasn’t really looking back, but looking forward.” – Vogue