Louis Vuitton Menswear Pre-Fall 2024 Hong Kong

[Deleted member 1957]

The clothing is true to brand nothing shocking but will still look nice irl. Loved the music even though I wished that he had done an entire soundtrack like he usually does. The location looks like a galleria but in a good way. The security guy at the end was cringe af though! The way he was pushing back the models to stay far from Pharrell shows why we don't need celebrity designers anywhere near high fashion. Never saw Armani, Miuccia, Ralph, Valentino etc. on the runway with security shoving people away. It was a terrible anticlimax and we cant blame him either, he's just doing his job.

 

[vogue28]

VOGUE.COM

 

[vogue28]

VOGUE.COM

 

[jeanclaude]

Clap along if you feel like a brand without a designer
(Because I'm not happy)
Clap along if you feel like a celebrity is a stunt
(Because I'm not happy)
Clap along if you know what Vuitton is to you
(Because I'm not happy)
Clap along if you feel like barfing is what you wanna do...

 

[LadyJunon]

Clap along if you feel like a brand without a designer
(Because I'm not happy)

Clap along if you feel like a celebrity is a stunt
(Because I'm not happy)

Clap along if you know what Vuitton is to you
(Because I'm not happy)

Clap along if you feel like barfing is what you wanna do...

 

[carbon-made]

But is LV, at least LV menswear, a house for a real designer? I think they can get away with mediocrity.


This is my thinking behind my response above. Most LV customers don't buy LV because of the craftsmanship or anything deeper than because, like you said, they want people to know it's LV. It's what that monogram says about who you want people to think you are and what you want people to think you can afford. Honestly, as much as I hate to say it, Williams is perfect for this. He doesn't have to do much, people are still going to buy LV, mostly LV accessories, because of an image they are trying to portray. And what is Pharrell Williams and hypebeast culture if not that? There is no substance behind it because there doesn't have to be.

I know LVMH doesn't release numbers but I wonder how LV sales are in comparison to Dior.

YES. I keep saying, they're not doing a collection, they are producing merchandise that appeals to a very specific demographic.
And the show being set in Hong Kong makes it even clearer: they want the money of affluent asian women who purchase, like said before, for their husbands and kids.
The brand can only make sense if relies on logos, because that's what that segment of the population wants: an easy connection with "European heritage" (from a taste perspective).
And upping the ante from a spectacle point of view can be the only way forward: in the absence of that, the emptiness of it all would be too glaring.

 

[disco54]

Its actually 1000X better than any of the sh!t Virgil put out lol

 

[tourbillions]

not bad at all! a bit more fashion and less hypebeast than virgil. will sell for sure