4 Things to know about Virgil Abloh’s Final show for Louis Vuitton
4 Things To Know About Virgil Abloh’s Final Show For Louis Vuitton
Vogue fashion critic Anders Christian Madsen, who collaborated with Virgil Abloh on his Louis Vuitton show notes, recalls the process of seeing the creative director’s final collection for the house come to life at Paris Fashion Week Men’s.
Virgil Abloh designed the collection before he passed away
Before his death on 28 November 2021, Virgil Abloh had already designed his autumn/winter 2022 collection for Louis Vuitton. He went to Paris and saw prototypes, and was fully up to date on the collection’s progress through the many WhatsApp threads he kept with his studio. He had already came up with ideas for the show’s production and soundtrack, including invitations and staff T-shirts had been discussed.
It was the “Louis Dreamhouse”
The show was set in a “Louis Dreamhouse” – styled with Instagram italics and a TM true to Virgil’s ways – where dancers mingled with models, furniture fitted out of the floors, beds spun around, and the Chineke! Orchestra performed an original soundtrack by Tyler, the Creator.
It was about imagination
Anders Christian Madsen who collaborated with Virgil mentioned “Working in the Louis Vuitton studio was an experience like no other. While Virgil wasn’t physically there, all his ideas came to life around us, in the garments, bags, shoes and jewellery, and his vision for the show. It felt a little bit like magic. Virgil loved magic. The “Louis Dreamhouse” encompassed a lot of the themes and messages at the heart of his eight-collection arc for Louis Vuitton. Childlike and surreal, it was about imagination: having and encouraging the imagination to become someone great, do remarkable things, and make the world a better place. Virgil believed we should see the world through the unfazed eyes of a child to whom anything seems possible”.
Heaven was a theme
Virgil also portrayed the collection with hints of what was going through his mind before he lost his tragic battle to cardiac angiosarcoma, a very rare and aggressive form of cancer. Sportswear and strong silhouettes at the Olympics: superhumans, who try to defy physical boundaries. Graphics on garments with imagery of supernatural and spiritual forces – time, magic, creation – but drawn like cartoons. There were wizards, animals, clouds, climbing holds on sky-blue bags, and animations of the Grim Reaper. At the end, his two models at Louis Vuitton, came as arch angels with huge wings on their backs structured like kites. If you look back at Virgil’s work at Louis Vuitton, all these themes became more present through the collections.
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