Louis Vuitton F/W 2015.16 Paris

[disco54]

painfully boring
the pant ensembles were horrid, esp the red leather pant.

I liked his previous shows but this lacks vision and excitement

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

Only 2-3 monogram bags


Freja's look is everything

 

[KKnardi]

I'm not very impressed by it although I like it and there's some fine pieces especially in the accessories department.

There's also an overwhelming amount of short skirts, funny cause it's a winter collection...

 

[Lola701]

You know, the problem with Nicolas' LV is that this is all so obviously supposed to be wearable and commercial...but in the stores, these clothes are some of the most uncomfortable looking and feeling I've ever seen. All the fabrics are so unbelievably stiff. And if it isn't stiff it's spongy and seems to be like cheap polyester. I was just in the store the other day and I was shocked. That opening look from Spring - that white look on Jean Campbell...you'd have thought it'd be a light and easy little knit dress....no. It would be like wearing a cardboard box. And those white dresses with the objects printed all over them? Sewn up in such a heavy canvas, you might as well wear a sandwich board!

I'm really not sure what Nicolas is doing here, at this point. I mean...the clothes are pretty, sure. But the construction and fabrication are so lacking, it ends up leaving so much to be desired. For as commercial as this is all supposed to be, I really, really can't imagine many people are buying these clothes.

Whether or not you liked Marc's tenure at LV, you have to give him credit - his clothes in stores were some of the most impeccably made and perfectly fabricated I'd ever seen.

Yes, i agree about the S/S collection. I think the most covetable pieces from this collection are the jeans, the little boho dresses like the one on liya, the sequined tunics and surprisingly, all the velvet pieces.

I've bought some pieces from his first collection, a few from his resort but the best pieces from the S/S are too expensive.

For me, this collection is maybe more tame and more wearable. I love how th clothes moved on the runway.
It feels boring because there's no hard colors, no focus on one length for the skirts.

The more i see it, the more i like it.

For Marc, let's not forget that his first few years at Vuitton were a bit like that. It was more about practical clothes than the fantasy.
His clothes were richer in details in his last few seasons but the collections were very exclusive and beyond edited.

 

[blackkohl]

Nothing groundbreaking to see here, but I do like this. It'll sell well and it's all pretty. Well most of it, anyway - completely loathe the tacky satin(?) trouser-blazer combo with the crappy slogan tee that Julia Nobis is wearing (see post #21). I think all the bags are vile and, although I'm normally a big fan of it, I really dislike the leopard print here. Just doesn't work.

 

[cyberprada]

I personally thought it was a nice collection. I loved the suits, the fur coats, most of the skirts, the leather trousers and a few other pieces. Yes it was commercial but to be honest I'm sick of designers making **** collections just to be original.

 

[gazebo]

https://www.youtube.com/user/FatalefashionIII

 

[freja]

I admit this isn't exactly his best work for LV, but I really like this collection. It's lighter than last season. I lovee the dresses here, particularly the tight ones. Also love the shirts and the flares on the hem and sleeves throughout. Coats and accessories/bags are great as usual. Same goes for the shoes.
I do wish he'd harken back to his genius when it comes to dresses and form, though. I want more of an edge that we aren't getting as much here.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

this is what jennifer connelly, charlotte gainsborgh, and michelle williams will be wearing everywhere? ...sigh.

 

[gossiping]

my favourite are the metallic pieces, they save the collection for me

 

[Spike413]

I'll be the cheese who stands alone here but I really, really like this collection. To me it picks up well from his debut and cancels out what I personally felt was an overly retro Spring collection from him. Unlike Spring, this actually feels like something Ghesquiere would do. It shares a certain mood and feel with his early Balenciaga work. Funny enough it also somewhat reminds me of some of Marc's early work for the house prior to when he went more extravagant and theatrical.

It feels glam in a way that still feels cool, if that makes sense. The giant furs look great, the dresses are cute without being twee and those train cases are to die for.

 

[TheoG]

Came off looking quite pedestrian, but I guess that's what I enjoy about it. Those plain pantsuits, ribbed knits slips and dresses were all nice besides a few, and those opening coats were excellent. Overall I liked it as a whole I felt that he continued off from his first collection.

 

[Littleathquakes]

I liked it too. we all know NG can totally go beyond this, we've seen it at Balenciaga. But I think his current bosses don't want none of that at LV so the collection does feel safe, but I think he injected enough NG into it to make it fresh. I do miss the epic sets that MJ used to showcase alongside the collection, though. And the high caliber casting.

 

[IloveDiorHomme]

Eeeeewy Vuitton

 

[lady stardust]

The bags are fun, but the clothes are so 80's/early 2000'ish.

 

[dior_couture1245]

You know...I looked through this again and looked at the detail shots, too...and I have to say this is pretty pedestrian. One thing kept popping into my head as I flipped through the images - Tory Birch, or 3.1 Phillip Lim.

I understand his intention so far at Vuitton, I get the casual attitude...but it all seems very flat. Lacking depth. There's no high/low...no tension or relief...it's all very one note. And - from what I can see, it seems to fall into the pit-hole of relying too much on novelty fabrics for the visual punch and not enough work on the silhouette, the cut and the proportion.

 

[jescajade]

The collection is nice enough, I'm just longing for Nicolas Ghesquière to really push the design limits here. The details look exquisite in this collection, but it could be so much more...

Once upon a time (five years ago? Ten?) such looks would have remained in the showroom, quieter cousins to the exaggerated runway point-makers. They even had a name: the commercial collection. Today, runway to reality is often a short trip.

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[MulletProof]

I'll be the cheese who stands alone here

Don't, Spike.. I'll be the bread .. I LOVE this stuff. He seems to have made the best leather mini skirts this season.. and I love that he's doing what most designers are doing, exploring the outdated and the ugly and the super 90s and early 00s tackiness but he makes it charming and yeah, cool. I just love the way he's been working at LV, he really needed a change. And of all the parade of leopard coats this season (I was so big on them last year..), I think he just delivered a winner.. that yellow thing with a stray cat texture, ah, come over here Great jackets in general, and that white one is really something, it's so wrong but god that's pretty, it makes even the idea of relocating to a cold country attractive.

 

[simple_elegance]

Half of it's great, the other half should be taken out and burned, specifically those furred and animal printed pieces.

 

[Spike413]

Don't, Spike.. I'll be the bread .. I LOVE this stuff. He seems to have made the best leather mini skirts this season.. and I love that he's doing what most designers are doing, exploring the outdated and the ugly and the super 90s and early 00s tackiness but he makes it charming and yeah, cool. I just love the way he's been working at LV, he really needed a change. And of all the parade of leopard coats this season (I was so big on them last year..), I think he just delivered a winner.. that yellow thing with a stray cat texture, ah, come over here Great jackets in general, and that white one is really something, it's so wrong but god that's pretty, it makes even the idea of relocating to a cold country attractive.

Ugh that yellow leopard printed coat was a fave of mine too. Such a cool piece that you could easily wear a million ways.

I think that that's why I'm responding to this so well. Even more so than his previous two collections these pieces truly do feel like the building blocks of a wardrobe. Save for the statement making furs they're more anonymous -- by which I mean they don't have that immediately recognizable quality that will make them easy to identify as such and such a season. A year from now when Fall 2015 is but a distant memory, many of these pieces won't stand out as being "so last season."