In Paris, an emotional Vuitton team completed the vision of Virgil Abloh’s final collection
Rather than a sombre feel, this collection was joyous – a commemoration, sure, but also a celebration. In a setting saturated in a fantastical sky blue sat a bunch of different vignettes: a staircase to heaven, a bed, a table laid for dinner at which a diverse orchestra played live. Apparently, Abloh always wanted an orchestra to play live when he could recommence physical shows for Louis Vuitton. Here, he got that wish.
The clothes themselves were wildly varied, demonstrative of Abloh’s unfettered imagination, his roaming influences. Some, oddly, touched on themes and ideas he had explored before: of course, there were reiterations and reimagining of Vuitton’s logos, both Monogram and Damier checks, his reworking of tailoring, twisted, recoloured, rethought, and his pictorial sweaters, knitted like vistas taken from his mind.
It was, in itself, a closing of that circle, of a cycle, a retrospective of sorts, and certainly a reconsideration of Abloh’s body of work for Louis Vuitton. More than anything else though, with its finale of all-white outfits – the last look seeing the kite-kit invitation from Abloh’s Spring/Summer 2020 show seemingly reconfigured to form abstract angel wings – it seemed a heartfelt and loving tribute to the soaring vision of the man who conceived it all.
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