Louis Vuitton S/S 08 Paris
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PARIS, October 7, 2007 – "It all came from our collaboration with Richard Prince, who is an artist who appropriates references within his work, which is what we do—which is fine, so long as there are three differences in everything!" declared Marc Jacobs, in the push and shove of the media mayhem backstage at Louis Vuitton. "And I'm a fan of SpongeBob SquarePants—and for all I know, so is Rei Kawakubo, because that's where our color came from!" Phew. If you take the decoder to that rush of explanation, it might take all night, but essentially what you have is Jacobs' defense against critics who skewered his New York show last month as derivative, especially of Comme des Garçons.
Pulling in Richard Prince for this season's Louis Vuitton project was a typical Jacobs coup of multidimensional, referential, and self-referential significance. The artist's spray painting and texts were worked into LV bags, recalling the hit collaboration with Takashi Murakami. Prince's body of work also triggered a rerun of the 12 Carita-uniformed girls who opened that Murakami show, but this time, they were sexy nurses in see-through plastic coats—Stephanie Seymour, Eva Herzigova, Nadja Auermann, and Naomi Campbell among them. That hilariously kinky parade was inspired by Prince's Nurse paintings—one of which appeared on a Sonic Youth album cover, which again links back to Jacobs' family circle of personal reference.
The collection? It was a reconfirmation, in less extreme form, of the controversial show with which Jacobs kicked off the season in New York, full of nutty combinations of fabric and garish SpongeBob pastels. The Lurex knits, pencil skirts, and gazar trenches came in mauve, yellow, pink, and purple, with deconstructed fragments of pinstripe vests, tweed suiting, and goddess-y chiffon fused into the mix. It was crazed, random, playful—yet grounded, as always, in bottom-line business sense. To see that, you only had to focus on the shoes—pointy pumps with bows and sparkles in the toe—and a new chunky line of costume jewelry. It's Jacobs' way of walking the line between creative freedom and commercial innovation.
– Sarah Mower
PARIS, October 7, 2007 – "It all came from our collaboration with Richard Prince, who is an artist who appropriates references within his work, which is what we do—which is fine, so long as there are three differences in everything!" declared Marc Jacobs, in the push and shove of the media mayhem backstage at Louis Vuitton. "And I'm a fan of SpongeBob SquarePants—and for all I know, so is Rei Kawakubo, because that's where our color came from!" Phew. If you take the decoder to that rush of explanation, it might take all night, but essentially what you have is Jacobs' defense against critics who skewered his New York show last month as derivative, especially of Comme des Garçons.
Pulling in Richard Prince for this season's Louis Vuitton project was a typical Jacobs coup of multidimensional, referential, and self-referential significance. The artist's spray painting and texts were worked into LV bags, recalling the hit collaboration with Takashi Murakami. Prince's body of work also triggered a rerun of the 12 Carita-uniformed girls who opened that Murakami show, but this time, they were sexy nurses in see-through plastic coats—Stephanie Seymour, Eva Herzigova, Nadja Auermann, and Naomi Campbell among them. That hilariously kinky parade was inspired by Prince's Nurse paintings—one of which appeared on a Sonic Youth album cover, which again links back to Jacobs' family circle of personal reference.
The collection? It was a reconfirmation, in less extreme form, of the controversial show with which Jacobs kicked off the season in New York, full of nutty combinations of fabric and garish SpongeBob pastels. The Lurex knits, pencil skirts, and gazar trenches came in mauve, yellow, pink, and purple, with deconstructed fragments of pinstripe vests, tweed suiting, and goddess-y chiffon fused into the mix. It was crazed, random, playful—yet grounded, as always, in bottom-line business sense. To see that, you only had to focus on the shoes—pointy pumps with bows and sparkles in the toe—and a new chunky line of costume jewelry. It's Jacobs' way of walking the line between creative freedom and commercial innovation.
– Sarah Mower
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Um.....I thought it was the reconstruction that was considered derivative of CDG, not so much the colours?
Amen! Actually this is just a parade of bag-ladies....
What is wrong with him? His s/s collections make me think that he's on the verge of a nervous breakdown...
On the Runway in 3 parts, by Cathy Horyn:
I’m at the Vuitton show. It’s now an hour late. The photographers are howling. Victoria Beckham is crossing the runway to kiss editors. Not me, though. Shame. Courtney Love is smoking. Now the photogs are booing. It’s a little tense. Richard Prince’s paintings cover the ceiling of the tent. “Hamburg After Dark,” etc. Prince has collaborated on accessories with Marc Jacobs.
More shouts and whistles. Still waiting…
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Interesting show, major bags by Prince and Jacobs. The LV partially obscured, as if painted out. Letters. The word Paris. Far more eventful than the Murakami bag, I think. The first bags were carried by a group of supers, including Naomi Campbell and Stephanie Seymour, wearing white plastic nurses dresses, caps and black lace surgery masks. Very funny and, of course, sick. More later.
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After the Louis Vuitton show and after the Louis Vuitton dinner at Prunier, I went to see Azzedine Alaia in his studio in the Marais. I guess I should say something about the Vuitton show and dinner, right? As I said, the Richard Prince bags were fantastic. I wish I could see them up close. Now. The clothes were a big old bright colorful jumble: 57 models and 12 “nurses” fallen into pots of paint. Don’t analyze. Enjoy! I learned tonight that the shoes were inspired by a Warhol comment: “change three things.” Any three things. The toes of the shoes have three things on them. It’s deep. Maybe not. Anyway, I’d like to see them up close. And the jewelry and the belts. Prince worked on those with Jacobs as well. I saw Bernard Arnault, the chairman of LVMH, just before the show and he said Prince’s paintings for the designs are incredible. They’re in Jacobs’ office, he said.
I arrived at Prunier at 10:15 p.m. Everybody was already seated, Jacobs at the back with Arnault, Helene Arnault, Prince, Sofia Coppola, Larry Gagosian, who I last saw in New York, and Victoria Beckham. I arrived late, with Suzy Menkes, because we had been at the Ralph Rucci show. And, of course, it started more than an hour late. It was beautiful, especially some of the couture dresses. I didn’t care for the gesture Jacobs made to Suzy at the end of the show. He stuck his tongue out. I guess he thought he was being cool or funny, on account of his feelings about her review of his New York show. It’s unbelievable, really. He should have known better.
I’m at the Vuitton show. It’s now an hour late. The photographers are howling. Victoria Beckham is crossing the runway to kiss editors. Not me, though. Shame. Courtney Love is smoking. Now the photogs are booing. It’s a little tense. Richard Prince’s paintings cover the ceiling of the tent. “Hamburg After Dark,” etc. Prince has collaborated on accessories with Marc Jacobs.
More shouts and whistles. Still waiting…
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Interesting show, major bags by Prince and Jacobs. The LV partially obscured, as if painted out. Letters. The word Paris. Far more eventful than the Murakami bag, I think. The first bags were carried by a group of supers, including Naomi Campbell and Stephanie Seymour, wearing white plastic nurses dresses, caps and black lace surgery masks. Very funny and, of course, sick. More later.
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After the Louis Vuitton show and after the Louis Vuitton dinner at Prunier, I went to see Azzedine Alaia in his studio in the Marais. I guess I should say something about the Vuitton show and dinner, right? As I said, the Richard Prince bags were fantastic. I wish I could see them up close. Now. The clothes were a big old bright colorful jumble: 57 models and 12 “nurses” fallen into pots of paint. Don’t analyze. Enjoy! I learned tonight that the shoes were inspired by a Warhol comment: “change three things.” Any three things. The toes of the shoes have three things on them. It’s deep. Maybe not. Anyway, I’d like to see them up close. And the jewelry and the belts. Prince worked on those with Jacobs as well. I saw Bernard Arnault, the chairman of LVMH, just before the show and he said Prince’s paintings for the designs are incredible. They’re in Jacobs’ office, he said.
I arrived at Prunier at 10:15 p.m. Everybody was already seated, Jacobs at the back with Arnault, Helene Arnault, Prince, Sofia Coppola, Larry Gagosian, who I last saw in New York, and Victoria Beckham. I arrived late, with Suzy Menkes, because we had been at the Ralph Rucci show. And, of course, it started more than an hour late. It was beautiful, especially some of the couture dresses. I didn’t care for the gesture Jacobs made to Suzy at the end of the show. He stuck his tongue out. I guess he thought he was being cool or funny, on account of his feelings about her review of his New York show. It’s unbelievable, really. He should have known better.
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Oh Lawd. The accessories are fabulous but everything else... not so much.
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the video IS great actually
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the bags with the richard prince texts are very, very exciting, i wish they got better shots of those. this will all pass for marc jacobs, i dont think he's realizing that the best way to take on the fashion press is with a great collection, knock em dead! give em some of the ole razzle dazzle! then you wont need to stick out your tongue. if the pen is mightier than the needle, that's only because designers are too busy with their head stuck up their bums.
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Bags 
Shoes Clothes 
. I wish I could describe my feelings without offending someone I've always admired... I better be shut up!
Shoes Clothes . I wish I could describe my feelings without offending someone I've always admired... I better be shut up!Girlfriend1
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this is just ew
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what scares me the most is the vision that i will see these bags on sidewalk stands of manhattan, you know--those really cheap, knock off bags.
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Well ... at least the bags are OK ... I liked very much the inspiration ... but there were several things gone wrong on the execution ...
All I can say is that when I saw this I thought of our very own tfs Lena's coined term "schizo-chic"
All I can say is that when I saw this I thought of our very own tfs Lena's coined term "schizo-chic"
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twice i'm looking at the collection... and really see this as a droit de réponse (reply) to NY...
coulours are pretty the same - very pastel funky colours, pretty kid-ish... , some funny weird combinations...it's the same crazy bourgeoise, but much more elegant and maîtrisée, more mature
... and to me looks really influenced by contemporary designers and the Carine Roitfeld story in Vogue June/July 2007 (with Catherine McNeil)
of cours there're some items i really dislike and make me want to...
there's one kind of bag i think is good (main reason for LV being alive)...
the Richard Prince bags are not that great... except for its "dégradé"...
style.it
more general note :
I think it's pretty interesting, to me, Marc Jacobs didn't really do difference this season btw LV and his first main label...
it looks like a less scyzophrenic designer...(always thought it was pretty difficult to make different visions evolve really well for different labels...)
coulours are pretty the same - very pastel funky colours, pretty kid-ish... , some funny weird combinations...it's the same crazy bourgeoise, but much more elegant and maîtrisée, more mature
... and to me looks really influenced by contemporary designers and the Carine Roitfeld story in Vogue June/July 2007 (with Catherine McNeil)
of cours there're some items i really dislike and make me want to...
there's one kind of bag i think is good (main reason for LV being alive)...
the Richard Prince bags are not that great... except for its "dégradé"...
style.it
more general note :
I think it's pretty interesting, to me, Marc Jacobs didn't really do difference this season btw LV and his first main label...
it looks like a less scyzophrenic designer...(always thought it was pretty difficult to make different visions evolve really well for different labels...)
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omg the reviews!!!!
Marc Jacobs is having a really bad season...
Marc Jacobs is having a really bad season...
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i'll have the McLouis and super size it .....
Never has it been easier to diet than now ...
This is quite a bit lamer than MJ, and my opinion of that wasn't very high ... last fall's LV was fabulous, from that to this ...
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