Louis Vuitton F/W 08.09 Paris

[Nelia]

the shoes are fug and i've yet to see a gorgeous bag. Marc, in case you haven't realized, as long as you're designing fug clothes, all you can depend on are killer purses! and appearantly, there are none for FW09!

that's why we are going to see them everywhere

Thanks for the video

 

[cake_batter]

yeah, i wasn't too impressed with the purses. and a few pieces i didn't like, but other than that i thought it was a gorgeous collection

 

[stephania]

seriously?? no!

 

[superbeautiful]

I enjoyed the show. I think I was more worried about the models falling over than I was about the clothes.

ahhh

 

[PrincessBride]

I don't know...I kind of like it, but I kind of dislike it too. The colors are nice, but the silhouettes are a little off for me. That last gown is so random too. I like the hats though, very unique!

 

[Salvatore]

I kind of like it after seeing the show...there are definitely interesting cuts and I love the headpieces.

 

[cake_batter]

does anyone have hqs?

 

[la_sonnambula]

Ladies! Are you tired of looking willowy and lithe? Despair no more. Marc Jacobs to the rescue! Louis Vuitton is proud to present a new collection of clothes that can turn any body type into either apple or pear shape. Do you have slim hips that simply won't go away? We have coats, dresses and skirts that are cut in such a way that will have people wondering if you're wearing a farthingale underneath the clothes. And if that isn't enough, some pieces come with flaps and other structural embellishments that sit at the hips for that extra bulk. Wish you legs don't look long and slim? We cut our trousers off above the ankle to create that magical length that will make Nadja Auermann look as tall as Victoria Beckham. Our trousers' billowing volume will make you feel like you are in Aladdin or an MC Hammer music video.

Anyway.

According to the Guardian, Jacobs was influenced by The Royal Tenenbaums:

...Jacobs has said that the film that influences him most is not Breakfast at Tiffany's but The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson's offbeat film about a dysfunctional family.

Anderson, who was at yesterday's show, and Jacobs both favour kookiness. But the collection showed Jacobs making the best of this tendency. With their oversized cuts, mid-length hems and plush fabrics, the clothes all looked distinctly reminiscent of those worn by Margot Tenenbaum, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, in Anderson's film.

 

[JuiceMajor]

This is why I much prefer Alber's when he said the Lanvin collection was influence by the ribbon!! A simple idea that accumulate to a fantastic result!! I can see why Marc is accused of being more style then substance!!

 

[Spike413]

That's not really true though, because he rarely ever mentions specific inspirations. He usually mentions a vague mood or idea, and that's it.

 

[Crying Diamonds]

I've decided I really like this collection.
But to those of you gasping at how tasteless I am it's because I'm a self-confessed ultra-modern and high shoe addict
Sorry!!
Love this collection.

 

[Crying Diamonds]

Anybody know where I can download the full video of this collection? LV website won't let realplayer download it !

 

[fashionista-ta]

Ladies! Are you tired of looking willowy and lithe? Despair no more. Marc Jacobs to the rescue! Louis Vuitton is proud to present a new collection of clothes that can turn any body type into either apple or pear shape. Do you have slim hips that simply won't go away? We have coats, dresses and skirts that are cut in such a way that will have people wondering if you're wearing a farthingale underneath the clothes. And if that isn't enough, some pieces come with flaps and other structural embellishments that sit at the hips for that extra bulk. Wish you legs don't look long and slim? We cut our trousers off above the ankle to create that magical length that will make Nadja Auermann look as tall as Victoria Beckham. Our trousers' billowing volume will make you feel like you are in Aladdin or an MC Hammer music video.

Anyway.

According to the Guardian, Jacobs was influenced by The Royal Tenenbaums:

I actually was quite impressed by this collection--some of the jackets & coats are exquisite (and will no doubt make your waist look tiny--if nothing else). Marc's best work in awhile, I think. But pales (quite literally ) in comparison to Lanvin ...

 

[Nelia]

^I like both collections, there is no need to compare them. I mean they are(Marc Jacobs and Alber Elbaz) so different.....
Reviews from style.com and New York Times blog (T-magazine)

PARIS, March 2, 2008 – The new, punctual, be-suited Marc Jacobs stood backstage after his Louis Vuitton Fall collection and briskly rattled off the need-to-know: "We just worked with shapes. Darts, folds, and pleats. I don't like to use these words because they sound pretentious, but if you like, last season was painterly, and this season's sculptural."

In essence, what he'd just shown was a more shapely and pulled-together version of the eighties-inflected collection he'd sent out under his own name in New York. If it led to puzzlement at first viewing, now, at least, his intentions can be read in context. Four weeks is a long time in fashion, and in the interim other designers—most notably Stefano Pilati at YSL—have been pushing big pleated pants, scrolliform necklines, and standout dirndls in heavy fabrics.

At Vuitton, what with the abstract conical fez, ballooning pants, and blocklike pump-wedges, the silhouette seemed to have been drawn from Grace Jones in her early eighties heyday, or the moment when Thierry Mugler and Claude Montana dominated Paris fashion. It's never quite that exact in Jacobs' hands, of course, but compared with last season's random, chopped-up, multicolored collage, this was a total top-to-toe grown-up look treated to a toned-down palette of muted browns, dusty blues, mint, and black.

In some ways it seemed right. This is a moment when many designers have intuited the need to chuck out the junk and get back to the cutting table. At Vuitton, even the bags—the bellwether of every change in the economics of desire—have been stripped of jingly junior doodads and are now quieted down to the point where the branding is only visible on embossed surfaces.

The question is whether that meant throwing out baby with bathwater. When the overexaggerated shapes calmed down, some chic things emerged, especially toward evening: a long-sleeved dress with a standout whorl at the hip, a strapless sheath with a caged tulle bustle, and a couple of crinolined dance dresses. Otherwise, though, it was lumpy going.

– Sarah Mower from style.com


March 4th, 2008 5:04 PM
Paris Fashion Week | Louis Vuitton
By Stefano Tonchi

(Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty)

The Fashion Telex: In which the editors of T: The New York Times Style Magazine file almost-real-time dispatches from the show of the moment. This week, the Telex comes from Paris women’s fashion week. For all past coverage of Paris Fashion Week, click here.

Stefano Tonchi, T’s editor, reporting from Paris on Louis Vuitton —

Marc Jacobs is a genius at catching the mood of the times and ‘doing it better.’ No designer in Paris expressed better than Marc Jacobs the current fashion youth’s fascination with the golden age of prêt-à-porter from the late 70’s and early 80’s (such as Armani, Krizia and Montana, and, of course, Saint Laurent). Every outfit said it loud and clear, from the geometric spiraling hats to the round volumes of the shoulders; from the harem pants to the billowing skirts closing in a fabric arrow; from the gigantic jewelry to the skyscraper-high shoes. Marc’s look is now about being “done,” as he puts it — well-polished, finished and executed with perfect make up and hair. Still it is not nostalgic or retro. He always had a postmodern take on fashion and on trends, and appropriation has been always in his vocabulary. This is what makes him so modern and so fast in always moving ever farther ahead. It is just perfectly ironic the way he’s postmodernly appropriating the designs of the fathers of postmodern appropriation.”

source:style.com; New-York Times blog(T magazine)

 

[fashionista-ta]

^I like both collections, there is no need to compare them. I mean they are(Marc Jacobs and Alber Elbaz) so different.....

Oh, but there is ... I can only buy one of them

 

[Nelia]

^ OK

 

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