Louis Vuitton Menswear Resort 2024 Paris

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[Norden]

It’s a stacking of unrelated stuff with no real proposition.

 

[FashionFanatico]

i like the different moods of the setting. that's it.

 

[Phuel]

It’s the Supreme model of design: Just throw logos/monograms on basics. It'll only get more obnoxious once Pharrell takes over. Obviously marketed towards rich 14yo, even richer gamers/streamers, and douchey pro athletes for flexing. There’s no design in any of this, may as wear a Vuitton bag. And you know what...? Still a million times better than anything Kim Jone’s Dior and Fendi and all his desperate collabs combined could ever come up with.

 

[naranja]

It’s the Supreme model of design: Just throw logos/monograms on basics. It'll only get more obnoxious once Pharrell takes over. Obviously marketed towards rich 14yo, even richer gamers/streamers, and douchey pro athletes for flexing. There’s no design in any of this, may as wear a Vuitton bag. And you know what...? Still a million times better than anything Kim Jone’s Dior and Fendi and all his desperate collabs combined could ever come up with.

There is design in this but its serves to keep a €20 billion afloat and relevant. These monograms that you find are obnoxious are much more palatable to the average midwestern family in the United States than a collection from Rick Owens. These monograms and basic boring designs serve to appeal to every person in this era of cultural decentralisation.

In my eyes this collection is good enough and enough to serve LV's top clientele of midwestern moms buying clothes for their teens

 

[tourbillions]

just make nicholas do menswear as well... call it x pharell or whoever they want but designing should be left to nicholas. No mom would buy their teen sons this louis vuitton, its more for the bratty teen son who forces their mom to buy them luxury. The moms who can afford these price points as casual gifts would go for loro piana or zegna.

 

[GoldenTribe]

The amusing thing is that it's arguably better than any of Abloh's collections for LV, but it is beyond me how anybody could compare this favourably to Dior (an actual designer label making actual tailored clothes [once in a while], not just some overblown legacy of a logo-lemming handbag brand).

 

[Fulton St Critique]

At the end of the day, the issue with this collection- and with LV menswear in general- is that there is no taste being incorporated into these looks. It’s all very square.

I think that is what is slowly coming back into fashion- this desire for tastefulness. We keep hearing about quiet luxury or whatever the current buzzword is, but I think rather than “minimilism ”, consumers are slowly voting for/demanding tasteful clothes and apparel once again.

The blandness of these clothes is the exact reason why streetwear has fallen off a cliff.

 

[Deleted member 7575]

The cheesiest, lamest, ugliest, dumbest, most pointless....

 

[margielamike2004]

Everything here looks cheap...and that ombre....airbrushed paint whatever....is so played out. None of this looks like luxury fashion. Logo's and tacky marketing ploys...used to sell garbage. To be expected from a corporate "fashion" conglomerate. I wouldn't wear any of this....if LV was handing it out to peeps, for free.

 

[Phuel]

I think that is what is slowly coming back into fashion- this desire for tastefulness. We keep hearing about quiet luxury or whatever the current buzzword is, but I think rather than “minimilism ”, consumers are slowly voting for/demanding tasteful clothes and apparel once again.

That’s such an optimistic sentiment, Fulton— but I just don’t see it in general for the SM people that have such a death grip on fashion, and even more unfortunate, such sway over the industry. When that heinous Vuitton monogram in brown canvas is now clothing— like, people actually want to look like they’re wearing a bag, that more than says enough that the ODing of logos/monograms is what many value and covet as “taste”. You know, if I were a 13yo, I confess I would be all over this: It’s what dumb, impressionable 13yo me would idealize as “high-end/high fashion/high high high” etc etc. Sadly, in 2023, adults-- and so many desperate middle-age gheys, covet and pine for this brand of juvenile basics as high fashion. It’s going to take a long (long long) time for people, more so with the younger generation, to be weened off this sort of “fashion”. Taste takes time to cultivate, develop, acquire (and wearing a cashmere tee is not it LOL...) The time and the discretion that a whole new generation and old generation of fashion victimz aren’t willing to devote to. They may give the impression that they’ve now moved on to “quiet luxury” (that word now has as much prestige as being called a “fashionista” LOL), but it’s more cosplaying a role, or it’s just drag to them. If you have to let people know of your “quiet luxury” in taste— then you don’t and never possessed it.

Good for those that still have faith in the industry and all its spawns. I don’t see it— and the proof is in all the blandest of the bland people now promoted to such heights; and they’ll only surround themselves with more blandness and mediocrity. (And when branding/rebranding is now casually known as blanding/reblanding in marketing, it’s a pretty sad indication of the state we’re in.) Eh.

 

[Fulton St Critique]

That’s such an optimistic sentiment, Fulton— but I just don’t see it in general for the SM people that have such a death grip on fashion, and even more unfortunate, such sway over the industry. When that heinous Vuitton monogram in brown canvas is now clothing— like, people actually want to look like they’re wearing a bag, that more than says enough that the ODing of logos/monograms is what many value and covet as “taste”. You know, if I were a 13yo, I confess I would be all over this: It’s what dumb, impressionable 13yo me would idealize as “high-end/high fashion/high high high” etc etc. Sadly, in 2023, adults-- and so many desperate middle-age gheys, covet and pine for this brand of juvenile basics as high fashion. It’s going to take a long (long long) time for people, more so with the younger generation, to be weened off this sort of “fashion”. Taste takes time to cultivate, develop, acquire (and wearing a cashmere tee is not it LOL...) The time and the discretion that a whole new generation and old generation of fashion victimz aren’t willing to devote to. They may give the impression that they’ve now moved on to “quiet luxury” (that word now has as much prestige as being called a “fashionista” LOL), but it’s more cosplaying a role, or it’s just drag to them. If you have to let people know of your “quiet luxury” in taste— then you don’t and never possessed it.

Good for those that still have faith in the industry and all its spawns. I don’t see it— and the proof is in all the blandest of the bland people now promoted to such heights; and they’ll only surround themselves with more blandness and mediocrity. (And when branding/rebranding is now casually known as blanding/reblanding in marketing, it’s a pretty sad indication of the state we’re in.) Eh.

While, yes, there are certainly those impressionable 13 y/os who view the LV monogram as a sort of holy grail, and will shell out one’s mortgage to flex on SM, I do sense a shift, call it a trend, in the industry at the moment that does support a more refined style amongst the masses.

I work in the heart of the garment district, a melting pot of style where most of Manhattan’s young fashionistas congregate based on where their offices are, and let me tell you, not one monogram can be found on these girls. They are dressed phenomenally well. Great blazers, well fitted trousers, novel skirts, interesting footwear- there must be 15 girls per block that look as if they just walked out of a meeting with their personal stylist.


My experience with seeing thousands and thousands of people a day IRL- many who work in the apparel trade- has shown to me at least that we have certainly moved beyond the streetwear/hype era of 2017 where the monogram ruled. Of course these girls existed alongside the Hypebeasts, but in general, contemporary fashion and the average consumer has, in my humble opinion, never looked so fashionable.