Louis Vuitton S/S 08 Paris

[educo]

oh.hell.no.

 

[melt977]

I wonder if Suzy Menkes will give him a review after all...

And I must admit, I'd love to watch a good cat-fight!!!!

 

[JuiceMajor]

I like the colour palette....that's about it!! Oh and also for bringing back the SUPERmodel!!

 

[imagensfashions]

A.m.a.z.i.n.g Show!!!!!!!!

 

[CHEAPandCHIC]

omg the reviews!!!!
Marc Jacobs is having a really bad season...

Stupid question but where can I find reviews?

 

[AJwasalllike]

DEFINITELY going to have to agree with whoever said LV is just a bag/occasional accessory house... not a fan of this at all...

 

[Alejandro]

i hate this.

and what i don't get is those of you saying that seeing it on the video makes it so much better. it doesn't. i had the video docked most of the time because it was so ffin boring. the daft punk song is totally played out and was tired even way back in 2001 when that sh,t first came out.

and don't even get me started on the models. there's nothing exciting at all about that whack *** zombie parade. back in the golden years of modeling, the girls really knew how to work it. they don't know sh^t now. the clothes aren't alive at all. THAT might have saved this and made it a bit more interesting... but no, there's nothing to redeem this crap.

 

[BerlinRocks]

and what i don't get is those of you saying that seeing it on the video makes it so much better. it doesn't. i had the video docked most of the time because it was so ffin boring.

i was about to say that...
i just watched it and it's really boring... there's no energy at all!!!!
the catwalk is way too long for 52(!!!!!) passages... it really does lack of energy, the girls are boring!!!!!
it's really sad because on pictures it has a sort of energy...
i think if i had been overthere i had slept...
zzzzzzzzz

Stupid question but where can I find reviews?

style.com (or any vogue website), newpapers (national or locals), iht (for suzy menkes' review), Cathy Horyn blog....

 

[KKnardi]

In Paris, Lanvin's upbeat joy; at Vuitton, handbag parade

suzy menkes, iht.com
By the time Marc Jacobs took to the runway at his Louis Vuitton show, pointing gleefully at the video-screen bag he toted and making facial gestures, everyone had already got the message: "You want handbags? Take that! And that! And that!"

There were, it is true, 6 out of 57 exits without those money-spinning bags. And the clothes were colorful, if chaotic. But since the show opened with a dozen of the most iconic of famous supermodels (including Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova and Nadja Auermann) dressed in nothing but translucent nylon raincoats over colored corsetry and with a lacy mask across the lips (oh! and carrying handbags, of course), the Jacobs theme of the season was set.

Vuitton had worked in collaboration with the American artist Richard Prince, famous for his sardonic takes as art works and for his "Naughty Nurses" series of fetishized hospital figures, re-colored in lurid shades on postwar pulp fiction covers.

The show tent was lined with similar book covers announcing "Tokyo by Night" - or any other city you could name to cover the vast space. The bags themselves seemed rather calmer: big, square shapes with brush strokes or photographic effects wiping out some of the "Louis Vuitton" letters under what seemed like a plasticized surface.

How fortunate that there was a letter on each surgical cap of the sexed-up nurses, who lined up to spell out LOUIS VUITTON, as did the finale of corseted women, bringing a Dolce & Gabbana-style ending to the show.

Prince defined what has been called "appropriation art," using existing work to morph it into something else. That is Jacobs's method too. The clothes took what the music business would describe as "samplings" of existing pieces, putting them randomly together, often to fine effect, as in a sky blue jersey dress worn over a rainbow of pink/mauve/blue tulle bunched underneath. The vivid colors were compelling: thigh-high hose in spring green rising below a narrow skirt split at the middle; or the coral, yellow, turquoise and scarlet used for bouncy skirt dresses.

Was it art? Was it fashion? Just count the LV bags.

 

[happyguy]

the colours are crazy cool!!!! he he...makes the collection so fun!!

 

[rangerrick14]

NOt my cup o tea. I loved Marc's main line collection. I don't know why I didn't love this.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

wow supermodels!!!

 

[j'adorekapusta]

Paris Fashion Week: Really Bad Bags Vuitton, Hermes and Chanel

At last night's Louis Vuitton show Marc Jacobs brought back the Supermodels to carry the creations of his latest Louis Vuitton/artist collaboration with Richard Prince. He had the models dressed as nurses. Why? I am not sure. But the ceiling was lined with covers from soft-p*rn novels, so naughtiness was on his mind. The bags (and the clothes) were all over the place. They tinkered with the logo, they put words down the front, they used every color in the rainbow.


The bag he chose to give to selected front-row editors was particularly bad. When my friend opened hers we laughed out-loud.

Because they were done by an artist, they are supposed to be ironic. The ghosted logo, the shiny finish are supposed to make it look like a bad Chinese fake. I don't know where they were made, but the smell they gave off was pretty powerfully toxic. So the option of these editors giving them to their daughters for dress up is out of the question -- lest they risk damaging their children's brain. But irony in bags is a risky road to take. Design really expensive bags that look cheap? How easy for a fashionista to do one better and just buy the real fake. I'm beginning to think it is time for these collaborations to come to an end. Stephen Sprouse was the first to do one -- he used grafiti print to write the logo on the bag and it made editors sit up and take notice of the new direction of the label. Then Takahashi Murakami did the signature print in bright fun colors which was fantastic, but exploited to the point where even Murakami was pissed off. I don't think this latest collaboration -- or the collection of clothes (which no one really buys anyway, 80 percent of Vuitton's revenues comes from leather goods) is going to do anything to further the house's luxury reputation.

by Lauren Goldstein Crowe for FASHION INC.

 

[Djavanjmiles]

Even though i hate to say it but I kinda agree with the reviews. This collection was nothing more than just a bag collection and shoe collection. Everything else was dull and uninteresting. To me it seems that since Marc lost some weight his ego has got better. His creativity seems to be lacking too. I'm usually a LV fan but not this time.

 

[ilaughead]

Suzy Menkes' review wasn't all-too bad...what a shame.

 

[mme]

Didn't Antonio Berardi do the nurse thing in Fall 06 with Natasha Poly already...

 

[fashionista-ta]

I agree with Cathy about Jacobs' sticking out his tongue ... I didn't know whom it was directed at, but I recoiled when I saw the picture ...

The work should speak for itself ...

I do like the spray-painted bags. I've always thought Marc had talent, but it's pretty well hidden at the moment ...

 

[Ferdinanda]

I like it.

Don't stone me to death now.

 

[kriszti.md]

Not a fan, to be simple and not too rude...

 

[hermesfreak]

There is not one piece of wearable clothing in the entire collection....Fall rtw 07/08 rocked the house in comparison...what a let down....this only makes the Lanvin collection earlier in the day look all that much better.