Louis Vuitton ‘By The Pool’ 2023 by Steven Meisel & Ethan James Green

[ForTheImage]

The photoshop on Sora's face in the diving board shot is criminal.

 

[amby]

I think she is probably Ella McCutcheon

The ones I recognise are Ida Heiner, Loli Bahia, Sacha Quenby & Sora Choi, who could be considered the new "supers" of these days. The only one I am not sure about is this one bellow (the first two pictures), could someone help me/us to identify her? (Kristine Lindseth or Tida Rosvall, perhaps?)

 

[Simera]

I could be wrong, but are those the same girl?
The 2nd one has got to be Karolina Spakowski.

Actually it could be Karolina in both, just very photoshopped in the 1st.

The ones I recognise are Ida Heiner, Loli Bahia, Sacha Quenby & Sora Choi, who could be considered the new "supers" of these days. The only one I am not sure about is this one bellow (the first two pictures), could someone help me/us to identify her? (Kristine Lindseth or Tida Rosvall, perhaps?)

 

[BlueRuin]

Getting really hard to defend Meisel at this point

 

[zoom]

I could be wrong, but are those the same girl?
The 2nd one has got to be Karolina Spakowski.

Actually it could be Karolina in both, just very photoshopped in the 1st.

Definitely Karolina Spakowski

 

[Simera]

The 2nd one I knew was her for sure, can not miss that face. But the first one looks like it could be here merged with someone else lol. It's ridiculous how overly photoshopped it is.

 

[Toni Ahlgren]

The photoshop on Sora's face in the diving board shot is criminal.

No one can call that abomination Sora, absolutely no one.

 

[MDNA]

The way he's trashing his brand with all these mediocre campaigns... I can't stand it.

 

[Foxie-Pooh]

Is this design by Nicolas G?
Did Carine styled this

Looks like MAS did according to models.com

 

[Bernie Flood]

The way he's trashing his brand with all these mediocre campaigns... I can't stand it.

It was overly retouched!
Extreme retouching should be illegal.

 

[Lola701]

Is this design by Nicolas G?
Did Carine styled this

All the collections are designed by Nicolas and his team.
The styling doesn’t scream Carine. So I would say MAS.

 

[Bernie Flood]

All the collections are designed by Nicolas and his team.
The styling doesn’t scream Carine. So I would say MAS.

Or Emmanuelle?

 

[Lola701]

Or Emmanuelle?

I don’t know any of those models…
Emmanuelle loves a Top Model. She has never worked with Meisel before. It would be a first but this is not her.

‘Usually Vuitton non-fashion related campaigns are styled by others stylists.

This is a capsule collection, so fashion related. Definitely MAS.

 

[Phuel]

^^^ Whatever efforts are put into the styling here, it’s as bland and generic as the styling for a midrange department store’s web content for their weekly sale. Meisel’s become the much much much lesser of lessers these days with his campaign shoots for these bluechip brands. This is the sort of mediocrity for outlet billboard. Any nameless fashion merchandiser and product photographer could have produced this. Tyrone’s Burberry campaign and Harley’s Gucci campaign with the similar themes look entirely on whole other level next to this banality.

 

[Lola701]

^^^ Whatever efforts are put into the styling here, it’s as bland and generic as the styling for a midrange department store’s web content for their weekly sale. Meisel’s become the much much much lesser of lessers these days with his campaign shoots for these bluechip brands. This is the sort of mediocrity for outlet billboard. Any nameless fashion merchandiser and product photographer could have produced this. Tyrone’s Burberry campaign and Harley’s Gucci campaign with the similar themes look entirely on whole other level next to this banality.

This is ultimately an issue when there’s unlimited budget. I don’t think at Balenciaga, Nicolas would have used Meisel for a capsule collection…
I think what is missing from Meisel’s work now is that outlet of pure expression of creativity like Loewe was for him for quite some time.

Everybody wants the name attached, the recognizable aesthetic but not the experimentations or the fun.

I would rather see Meisel shoot the main campaigns than David Sims but that’s what we get…

‘There’s also a shortage of legendary photographers to work with…

 

[Phuel]

^^^ That there’s an unlimited budget— and this dime-a-dozen banality is the result, simply astounds, amuses and offends me. I get that this is for the masses (and inside politics aside), this sort of for-the-masses output could have been so easily elevated by any product photographer and any fashion merchandiser. That even the post-production is so amateur, so inexperienced, really shows that the brand doesn't care-- and Meisel doesn’t even care to maintain his own brand. At this point, I wouldn’t bat a lash if he were never to work again. He has absolute nothing to contribute to fashion anymore.

 

[RaisinBoy]

Looks like generic AI bot did this.

 

[vogue28]

I've just noticed on Marié-Amélie Sauve's Instagram stories, that the images with the models captured on location for the lookbook and website were taken by Ethan James Green, not Steven Meisel.

Here's more:

 

[Lola701]

I wonder why Meisel don’t shoot on location anymore…
Is it because studio sets allowed him to have more control over the lighting?

 

[EnEcoute]

This is just so cringe.